Category Archives: ART

Magic Windows #25

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

All dolled up in mermaiden pearls for Enchantment Under the Sea, Dances of Vice’s 4th Anniversary Celebration. It was my very first time to attend Dances of Vice, though I’d been wanting to go for years! Shien (the mastermind behind the magic) is such a perfect hostess, and puts so much thought and love into [...]

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Double Rainbow Honey

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

♥ Lisa Bettany shot this amazing photo of a Double Rainbow Over Manhattan after a recent storm in NYC. In order to counter some of the disaster-fraught gloom looming ’round these parts of late, I’ve ordered up a double helping of moonbeams and rainbows, liberally sprinkled with some of my favorite faces to help dispel [...]

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6 Years On – Fragments + Wet Feathers

Thursday, September 1, 2011

This year there’s just too much, too much to write, to say, to show – it’s all disjointed fragments that don’t quite fit together, scrabbled here and there over the last few days of travel. It ain’t much, but it’s what I got. “The Water Is Rising” by Amy Earles Amy sent this to me [...]

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The Left Eye of Horus

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Horus was the ancient Egyptian sky god who was usually depicted as a falcon. His right eye was associated with the sun Ra. The eye symbol represents the marking around a Peregrine Falcon’s eye that includes the “teardrop” marking sometimes found below the eye. The mirror image, or left eye, sometimes represented the moon and [...]

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Dithyrambalina: Musical Architecture in New Orleans

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

So! I am very excited to announce that Colin and I will be collaborating on a piece that will be part of amazing project called Dithyrambalina: The Brooklyn-based artist Swoon, who may know from her beautiful wheat-pasted cut-out street art (and the following flotillas: Miss Rockaway Armada, Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, Swimming Cities of [...]

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Happy Birthday Pandora!

Friday, July 22, 2011

Today marks a very special holiday indeed – the birthday of my dearest darling, Miss Pandora Gastelum. In lieu of getting to celebrate her whelping with her (the travesty of why this cannot be is detailed below), I am writing this here, so those of you who do not know her can begin to, a [...]

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Peacock Spider Honey

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

✸ I’ve become very obsessed with Peacock Spiders recently. Certain experiences have been contriving to teach me to look very closely at the tiny wonders in our world: the mysteries of minutiae, the infinitesimally small and complex creatures who might otherwise be overlooked in favor of those grander in scale. These wee beasties wave their [...]

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Exquisite Corpse – Cinco de Mayo

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

For this month’s Exquisite Corpse, we will be dedicating the evening’s festivities as a special memorial to some of our friends and heroes who have died this month: Ramon, crazy-cat extraordinaire, Leonora Carrington – the surrealist sorceress, and to Nefairia Devi, Bharatanatyam dancer and true gothic beauty. Bring something to add to the altar for [...]

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Sakura Honey

Monday, May 16, 2011

✸ I love these vibrant illustrations by A. Alexeieff for Russian Fairy Tales, from 1945 This bit from Eudora makes me want to track down a copy of my own: “These Russian tales are rambunctious, full-blooded and temperamental. They are tense with action, magical and human, and move in a kind of cyclone of speed. [...]

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Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

I did an interview with William Bass of Uweekly Austin about Exquisite Corpse recently, but I thought it might be good to post our full interview here, since I was able to go a lot more in depth about what my vision for the night is all about, where it comes from, and what I’m [...]

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