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"I enjoyed watching Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (2023), for the most part. It was fun. It’s the sort of film which if, say, four years ago you’d described its existence to me – I would have been amazed that such a cultural artifact could really exist. It is so intensely saturated, oversaturated, with images and dynamics which evoke the GIFs and the screencaps, the quotations, the ‘what if there was a movie like this’ posts which, by scrapbooking the fragments of less-satisfying wholes, paint pictures of ideal and longed for pieces of media on platforms like Tumblr."

I wrote about my impressions of Saltburn and the way in which it works as a satire, in comparison to The Secret History.

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Hello, I finally wrote another blog post, so in advance of that being published - please sign up if you want to get it in a newsletter! I mostly write about ancient literature/queer history/the difficult enjambment of past and present (although this next article is about the movie Saltburn).

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collage, gouache, and nine-year-old copic marker refill ink straight from the bottle on paper; 2023.

[Image description: A collage made from a photograph of an interior. On a bookcase are the words ‘through the cliche of emulation revealing a reality some fall prey to the dangerous decadance of history becoming confined to the world of the divine or the dead. transformed into animal-headed vessels of metal and glassware their reflections will be preserved in present-day windows’. On the right is the body of a woman with the head of a blue gorgon, and above is a frame containing a photo of a museum framed by leaves. In another room, an expanse of blue with a big dark dot shows behind another frame. There is a blue edge to the whole image.]

#gorgon #gorgoneion #medusa #tagamemnon #Greek Mythology #greek mythology art #greek myth #collage #artists on tumblr #classics #gouache #gouache painting #art #ink #alphonse mucha #body horror #collage art #monster girl

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I wrote about Sappho fragment 2 and the queer resonances of empty landscapes. Through the lens of, uh, that one interview with Iori Miyazawa. I’m sending this blog out as a newsletter, so please sign up if you’re interested!

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Girl Calendar (September) + Girl Calendar (December); collage, gouache, and ink on paper; 2023.

[Image description: Two collages made of the September and December pages of an Art Nouveau calendar. The figures in the calendar pictures have been cut away. Behind the September cutout is a painting of a field with a black circle in the centre. Below it text reads "September offered a grungy take with earthy tones." and "Persephone is a legacy perpetually reinvented." Beneath is a drawing of abstract botanical forms merging with human heads and limbs. Three clocks in the shape of insects move through it. To one side, text reads "it's the only flower I can think of that's really in charge" and underneath,  "What an epic retelling of our collective past!!" and "whatever happened to Luna Woman Power??" Behind the December cutout is a black wash of ink with dark red circles and a white rectangle in the centre. Text below reads "December: a moment of eternity flickering every second." Underneath is a drawing of fleshy shapes like organs and veins, each containing a miniature watch. The watch in the centre is shaped like a fruit, and is surrounded by teeth - text beneath it reads "#perpetual." A human head connected to the organs says "anything and everything that happens is in my control." To one side, text reads "modern brides want something edgier" and underneath "… or an exploration of our possible futures?"]

#persephone #greek mythology #greek myth #collage #tagamemnon #artists on tumblr #greek gods #homeric hymn to demeter #ink drawing #art nouveau #gouache #gouache painting #proserpina #classics #greek mythology art #ink #art #alphonse mucha #body horror #horror art