~In Search of Home~
~The Virgin & the Unicorn~
Cultivating the garden of earthly delights...wild plums & tea in the sun, magic feathers, weaving tales, ancient lore, the wheel of change, equanimity, alchemy...
In the Garden of the Penitent Magdalen"
~open-hearted creatures, renegade shape-shifters, star-gazers, myth-makers~
To name a few...Faun Fables, Cat Power, Sean Hayes, In Gowan Ring, Devendra Banhart, The Devil Makes Three, Tin Hat Trio, Hedningarna, Swans, Coco Rosie, Dessacord Majeur, Idiot Flesh, Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Iron & Wine, The Tiger Lillies, The Yard Dogs!, Garmarna, Current 93, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Bjork, Dead Can Dance, Trial of the Bow, Dylan!!, Tool, Neurosis, the cello, Bulgarian gypsy folk, birdsong, bluegrass, Irish ballads & anything else that moves me in the moment...
Most recent favorite by far is Pan's Labyrinth!! The generally anything directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Amelie), or Emir Kusturica (In the Time of the Gypsies, Underground, Black Cat/ White Cat), Jan Svankmajer!!!! (especially "Alice") & the Brothers Quay!!!, Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal), Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern), Also love "Holy Mountain", "The Color of Pomegranates", "Baraca", "Spirited Away", "Children of Paradise","Sadko", "Burnt by the Sun"....
I'd rather be making art...
To many loves to list...but almost anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Odysseas Elytis, Sappho, C.G.Jung, Angela Carter, Joseph Campbell, Jorge Borges, Rilke (Sonnets to Orpheus), Umberto Eco, Anne Rice, Marguerite Duras (The Lover), Lorca, Pablo Neruda and folklore/ fairytales from around the world...especially Russian tales and anything from the Golden age of Children's Book Illustration (Ivan Bilibin, Arthur Rackham!!, Edmund Dulac...), J.J. Grandville....
Artists who don't compromise the heart! All who sing in the midst of suffering,
who move with grace and weave beauty into the soul of the world...Joan of Arc, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hieronymous Bosch, Gustave Moreau, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Joel-Peter Witkin, Alphonse Mucha......
“When I conjure these memories they are of the present to me because afterall the artist is a kind of enchanter of timeâ€
~Romare Bearden