Theriomorphous
(I will be returning to Solovyov’s Sophiology next time, via Bulgakov) Of all the incidentally cogent things that cinematic madmen say, one always sticks with me, but it is in fact a quotation. In the movie Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter refers to a quote by Marcus Aurelius when he says to Clarice Starling, […]
Another Tarot deck review is up. This time it is the turn of the Tattoo Tarot, illustrated by Megamunden, to come under my gaze. Not having body art myself (despite several scars which would be well to conceal), but being fascinated by it, I like this deck a lot. Although I find much visual appeal […]
So far I have shot and upped three tarot deck reviews and am just now getting to grips with the concept of cross-posting, which is to say posting cross-platforms with a single upload. I’m not sure if wordpress integrates this ability or if there is a plugin available for it yet but I will be […]
The grotesque is a wonderfully ambiguous term, or it used to be. Not straightforwardly unseemly, it referred to a kind of secret interiority, the grotto-esque, the wild yet still encultured cave wall decoration of ancient civilisations that the renaissance humanists and early modern proto-romantics were so in awe of. It came to designate a kind […]
In a sticky frenzy of creative, productive, juice I have managed to cook together a trailer of sorts for forthcoming content. It’s a hodge podge in the good old tradition of mashups between the gritty and the ethereal. It also somehow manages to celebrate recent comings and goings and comings again in my turbulent emotional […]
Ruminations about aging in a population that is more and more ideologically and culturally divided along generational lines, dating disasters and ongoing relationship struggles, plus many health issues are dogging my days and sapping my creative power most days in the past few years. I’ve wanted to return to blogging the whole time but have […]
Theriomorphous