Agnes Scherer's ceramics

Leonora Carrington

Anjali Kasturi

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Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett

Claire-Louise Bennett on Dorothea Tanning

we can delay contact with the day and its diminishing effect on our reveries

isn’t it customary to feel a little removed from the world on one’s birthday, rather than buoyant and
seminal? Doesn’t acknowledging we were born make us feel ephemeral, listless, arbitrary and essentially
alone? Tanning stands in front of a receding avenue of open doors, fingers firm around the handle of the
nearest one, looking as if she is about to push it closed, but can’t quite.

The iconography of the confined interior as a stage where events lead to a kind of liberation of the
imagination is repeated over and over.

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Cartoon Flora of the Avian Gut
Tom Hardwick-Allan

Donna Haraway Staying With the Trouble Lecture

I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

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Red Doc>
Anne Carson

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Planning possible pragmatic futures/job hunting

Plan: for 5 years a writer for ... – then 5 as a scenic painter – then 5 as a singer, pianist or clarinettist in a
band – then 5 living in the woods dancing – then 5 selling the work I make whatever it is and seeing if it
changes it – then 5 as a musical theatre/ opera writer – then 5 as an actress – then 5 as a scenic designer/
cinematographer – then 5 as a b&c-style criminal – then 5 as a spy, pretending to be other people – then 5
as a sailor – then 5 as an acrobat in a circus
that’s 60 years of work – I would be 83 – it is possible

similar feeling:
Ian Drury - What a Waste