Crow and Dead Papa Toothwort
About Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, with reference to In Parenthesis by David Jones
Train Dreams
About Emmylou Harris, the film ‘Train Dreams’, and the book on which it was based…
Pearl-fishers, Quinie, and the Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
About Scottish Travellers and pearl-fishers, the singer Quinie, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Marsden Hartley, Der Blaue Reiter, and reverse glass painting
Marsden Hartley, Der Blaue Reiter, and their interest in folk reverse glass painting
Tale of Tales; The Mouse & his Child
The animated film ‘Tale of Tales’ and ‘The Mouse & his Child’, Russell Hoban’s book for children
Isabella Ducrot; Elena Ferrante
Thoughts on the art and writings of Isabella Ducrot and the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante
‘The Mastermind’ and ‘My Sister and Other Lovers’
Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’ and Esther Freud’s ‘My Sister and Other Lovers’
Simple tasks, simple pleasures
About Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ and Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Le Pupille’
Anna Cassel, Hilma af Klint, and Anthroposophy
Anna Cassel, Hilma af Klint, and the influence of Anthroposophy and Theosophy on their work
Lorenzato, ‘Rio,40 Graus’, and ‘Orfeu Negro’
About the Brazilian painter Lorenzato, and the films ‘Rio, 40 Graus’ and ‘Orfeu Negro’
‘Demian’, ‘Ryan’s Daughter’, and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Hermann Hesse’s Demian, ‘Ryan’s Daughter’, and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington
Two Surrealist artists in Mexico, and their interest in food…
Rag Rugs and Book Paintings
Repurposed intimacy – rag rugs and Winifred Nicholson; book paintings by Andrew Cranston…
‘Memoria’, ‘Trenque Lauquen’, and the ‘Mundus Imaginalis’
Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Laura Citarella…