Category: art

self-portrait with ghost

short story practice, feb 2022 /

During the first years of the pandemic, Elena and I made a weekly project of collaging the verses of octavia e butler’s ‘Earthseed’. .

“tell the story of a scar”

he had always been gifted at sports of all kinds /

assignment set by bridget

assignment set by elena

the dance

one day the woman awoke
feeling strange.

At last

we are drunk for the first time
in the foothills
of cadair idris
fresh out of school where for five years they called us lemons
and dykes.

the spider

the woman remembered
the swivel of shod hooves on the dusty road
voices of strangers passing
blinding sunlight in the post office window
men’s hands, reaching
music at the market.

and running.

the woman

once there was a woman who lived alone

baba yaga’s hut

they come to me for the stupidest things.
/

An esperiment in doing one thing at a time.

Exploring and sharing the secret parts of ourselves (an ongoing project between my friend and I rooted in Emergent Strategy and Octavia Butler's Parables novels).

New year collage 2020

The Story of the Nether Largie Stanes

"Mooooooon!" Earth would call up into the darkness. "Gealllaaaach! Come down here and talk with me, for I long for a sister who understands me, and I feel you could be the one."