daughter – peter
“Peter” from Daughter (Elena Tonra). Tales From Shop Session, filmed in Bristol by Tom Swindell, 2010.Filed under: dream, freedom, gender, love, music Tagged: daughter, elena tonra, fantasy,...
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“It won’t cost much… Just your voice.” From Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989)Filed under: film, gender Tagged: fairy tale, mythology
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are the stories told by grandma on a moonless night less true than those told in the moonlight? are stories spun with hunger-sour spit less sweet than those spat by a fat belly grandma? how much does...
View Articlewilliam butler yeats – a coat
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For...
View Articlethe rape of persephone (homeric hymn)
The Rape of Proserpina – Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622) I) HAIDES ABDUCTS PERSEPHONE Homeric Hymn ii to Demeter (abridged) (trans. Evelyn White) (Greek epic circa 7th or 6th B.C.) “[Demeter’s] trim-ankled...
View Articlebarthes on the other-ache
Painting by Francine van Hove compassion/compassion The subject experiences a sentiment of violent compassion with regard to the loved object each time he sees, feels, or knows the loved object is...
View Articlehélène cixous – castration or decapitation?
Hélène Cixous’ essay “Castration or Decapitation?” discusses the binary construction of sexuality and how the feminine is defined by the negative: a woman is not a man because she lacks a penis. This...
View Articleanne carson – the gender of sound
William Etty – “The Siren and Ulysses”, 1837. Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public, in ancient as well as modern...
View Articleflower power
Something wonderful I came across HERE this week while trying to find Rock Rose essential oil online. Echo and Narcissus. Helen Stratton, 1915. The daffodil has been adopted by both the American...
View Articleeinstürzende neubauten – the garden (1996)
From the album Ende Neu (Mute Records,1996).Filed under: music Tagged: Einstürzende Neubauten, garden, mythology
View Articlejulia holter – goddess eyes i (2012)
This track comes from her brilliant 2012 album, Ekstasis, which you can listen to HERE. Video directed by Jose Wolff. “The first thing that came to mind was an image that gradually deteriorates with...
View Articlemartha wainwright – proserpina (2012)
The last song written by her mother, Kate McGarrigle. Filed under: love, music Tagged: Kate McGarrigle, loss, Martha Wainwright, mythology, persephone, Proserpina, seasons
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