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Mourning and Monsters, 2
(In which we perhaps learn more about the monsters, and the Makarship, than the mourning…) At the end of the short filmed interview he conducted with me after my gaining the Dundee Makarship in 2013, the late Jim Stewart was … Continue reading
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Leonora, Linares, and the Alebrijes, 2
4 The next day I had two new fixations: getting my jacket dry-cleaned, and having a ‘souvenir haircut’. (As I have almost no hair, the second of these is sometimes replaced by the souvenir shave.) Giovanni reckoned that a short … Continue reading
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Tagged Alebrije, Chaz Brenchley, Coconino County, Dia de los Muertos, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, George Herriman, Ignatz Mouse, Jorge Fondebrider, Julián Herbert, Krazy Kat, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Mexico City, Museo de Arte Popular, Nahuatl, Oaxaca, Orfeon, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Pedro Linares, Reverend Thomas Dick, Roboet, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Tiffany Atkinson, Tona
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Leonora, Linares and the Alebrijes, 1
(I’ve been meaning and indeed longing to get back to this account of my non-encounter with Leonora Carrington two years ago in Mexico City, and to describe what I met instead. Revisiting my drafts within a month of the earthquake … Continue reading
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Psychogeoferric Footnotes
(This is the last of the plunder from Tumblr: displacement activity for not finishing off the Mexico City post, which I have now no excuse not to return to apart from the full time job. And my accounts. I’m adding … Continue reading
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