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November 9, 2012
That Which Snatches
There! You needed harpies today, didn't you? And harpies you shall have... And me? I have a dire need to dispose of a harpie-bug one of my children gave me, so I am going to rest up today and fiddle with The Book of the Red King and do some (alas) light house-drudgery. Tomorrow, White River Junction! Next week, New York City! I hope they will manage at home without me... No doubt they will.
Now
Now
November 7, 2012
Light heart, broken heart, child heart--
Olana - Matthew Six
Mineral Pigments, Gold on Kumohada60 x 48"2007-2009
This modest little post is dedicated to my friend Makoto Fujimura, who lost 20 major works and 50+ smaller ones in the flooding of Chelsea's Dillon Gallery during Hurricane Sandy. He has served on the NEA board, founded International Arts Movement and Fujimura Institute, and is well known worldwide for his nihongan
Mineral Pigments, Gold on Kumohada60 x 48"2007-2009
This modest little post is dedicated to my friend Makoto Fujimura, who lost 20 major works and 50+ smaller ones in the flooding of Chelsea's Dillon Gallery during Hurricane Sandy. He has served on the NEA board, founded International Arts Movement and Fujimura Institute, and is well known worldwide for his nihongan
Hibernating continent
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.” -Francis Bacon
Cancelled all my day's events so I can stay home and get over a cold, as I have a drive to Vermont and another to New York City in the coming days. Be peaceful while I'm snuggled up, will you?
Cancelled all my day's events so I can stay home and get over a cold, as I have a drive to Vermont and another to New York City in the coming days. Be peaceful while I'm snuggled up, will you?
November 6, 2012
Genre and the (Parenthetical) Laundry-Woman
Hideous day of laundry and cleaning here: reminds me of several things having to do with genre fiction--science fiction and fantasy in particular. You may find them interesting. Or not. But here goes the laundrywoman, emptying out the contents of her head into the blog pail.
1. I saw on facebook the picture of the World Fantasy winners, and they were men men men plus two couples (for editing
1. I saw on facebook the picture of the World Fantasy winners, and they were men men men plus two couples (for editing
November 5, 2012
Celebratory clip
A minor moment from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer, 2012), posted in honor of the end of my driving-lesson tribulations--my elder children took their last driving lessons and passed the road exam. No doubt a few hair-raising moments await, but they each have a license...
“Mommer, would you go comb your hair? You look like a medusa.” Roiphe climbed out of the car,
“Mommer, would you go comb your hair? You look like a medusa.” Roiphe climbed out of the car,
November 2, 2012
Tarkovsky
Thanks to Rebecca B. for posting this quote from Andrei Tarkovsky's Sculpting in Time / Запечатлённое время on my facebook wall:
Modern art has taken the wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for his own sake. What purports to be art begins to looks like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that
Modern art has taken the wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for his own sake. What purports to be art begins to looks like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that
October 30, 2012
Thaliad and thanks
Early morning facebook post: Smolder of light in the dense clouds... Tiny rift of blue above Glimmerglass, gone gunmetal gray. Momentary canyons break into day-after-hurricane clouds; the awe of world-weather is with us again. But this time we have no giant Kentucky coffee tree on the cars and, to my surprise and delight, never lost power.
And I have worked on marketing, one of those things
And I have worked on marketing, one of those things
October 29, 2012
Wuthering
A vignette for Thaliad.By Welsh artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Another mad day as I try to cram Tuesday's events and appointments into Monday. Something is coming this way.... The trees are tossing, and the sky is thick, gray lint. The winds are still whirling and haven't decided on a dominant direction but have started to whistle and moan from time to time. As the still-recent
Another mad day as I try to cram Tuesday's events and appointments into Monday. Something is coming this way.... The trees are tossing, and the sky is thick, gray lint. The winds are still whirling and haven't decided on a dominant direction but have started to whistle and moan from time to time. As the still-recent
October 27, 2012
This is no post!
The young and frolicsome Bards are here from Bard College, feasting and exploring the village and feasting some more. And tomorrow is booked with events from early in the morning to late at night, so see you Monday...
New Thaliad page up here on the 1st. (New public facebook page is already up.) A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and The Foliate Head pages are updated--see tabs above.
New Thaliad page up here on the 1st. (New public facebook page is already up.) A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and The Foliate Head pages are updated--see tabs above.
October 25, 2012
Novelist Lee Smith on Thaliad
Pre-orders for the limited edition hardcover of Thaliad will begin on November 1st at the Phoenicia Publishing website, and by the close of the month the book will be springing out into the world, turning handstands and flashing its lovely Clive Hicks-Jenkins artwork and Elizabeth Adams design at passers-by. Here is a foretaste.
In THALIAD, Marly Youmans has written a powerful and beautiful
In THALIAD, Marly Youmans has written a powerful and beautiful
