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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, ...
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“Caught a Lite Sneeze”, Tori Amos
Musical Mondays: Caught a Lite Sneeze by Tori Amos As an high school teenager trapped in a household that was far too conservative for my tastes, Tori Amos was emblematic of female empowerment that took on religion, the patriarchy, and of course, sex. Boys for Pele, her third solo studio album explores her relationship with ...
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Blue Highways
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk — times neither day nor night — the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in ...
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Francesca Woodman
The work of Francesca Woodman is illuminating, yet at the same time there is something inherently spectral and obscure about her images. When you look at her photographs you feel as though someone is telling you a secret. They are letting you in on the depths of something, all the while flooding your view with ...
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Scott Mutter
While I don’t remember and can’t find the title of this piece by Scott Mutter, I can tell you how it was done. Sort of. Mutter, as I understand it, takes two negatives and puts them together in the dark room. I believe he typically takes the pictures himself, but he has also used ...
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“The Stolen Child,” William Butler Yeats
Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping herons wakeThe drowsy water rats;There we’ve hid our faery vats,Full of berrysAnd of reddest stolen cherries.Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.Where the ...
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Starting Out
Hello all! So far, we are all hard at work at getting our website up, our issue together, and starting this blog. Starting on Friday, our editors will start posting art and literature that has inspired and/or intrigued them that day. The schedule is as follows: Musical Mondays (Nidya)Prose Tuesdays (Kate)Artistic Wednesdays (Tia)Screenwriting Thursdays (Christina)Poetic ...