tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69398573169099301272024-03-06T12:00:32.380-08:00Beneath the BrackenLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-87025130356494379972017-11-22T06:25:00.000-08:002017-11-22T06:36:01.719-08:00Lackington's <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Alexandra Siedel’s poetry is breathtaking; haunting, whimsical, and witty. I’ve been an admirer of it for years. It was only back in February, when I finally had the pleasure of meeting her, that I realised that she also writes short fiction. Not quite sure how I missed that, but I have since put things to rights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It’s usually possible to tell in their short fiction, when a writer is also a poet. This is very apparent in Alexandra’s "The Master of Hourglasses", which appears in the current issue of Lackington’s. </span></div>
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The story contains beautiful images, arresting turns of phrase, characters who who linger in the reader’s mind, making themselves - though not necessarily the reader - quite comfortable there. It’s a stunning and unsettling tale of masks, identity, trades, a girl and a god. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do check out Alexa’s blog: <a href="http://tigerinthematchstickbox.blogspot.de/2017/11/a-storys-story.html">Tiger in the Matchstick Box</a> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">where she’s written about the interesting publishing path this story has taken. You can also find out more about her and her writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Issue 16 of <a href="https://lackingtons.com/2017/11/22/issue-16-fall-2017-trades/">Lackington’s</a>, with the theme: Trades is now available.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Also, I wanted to mention that Lackington’s has recently started a <a href="http://www.patreon.com/user?u=62720">Patreon page</a>. Money will go toward paying their writers and artists fair prices. Do take a look, it's a wonderful journal with high quality speculative fiction and art. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ochred hands onto the walls of this cave. my skin. my shelter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">my fingers crawl like night insects </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">across the plains, of stone and dust. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">taught and resonant - from my own skin,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(A poem I wrote a few years ago, which Mike and Anita Allen were kind enough to publish in Mythic Delirium back then.)</span></span></div>
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Just finished another of my story collages. </div>
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'At night, when the sea had quietened down, she would listen to the stories told to her by the souls of the lost and drowned fishermen whom she had collected since she was a girl and kept safe in nests of shell and phials filled with sand.'</div>
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It was inspired by a short story I wrote after visiting Brighton two Novembers back, which was in turn, inspired by the tale 'The Soul Cages' which I came across in W. B. Yeats' collection 'Irish Fairy and Folk Tales.' I highly recommend the collection. </div>
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My collages always start with a photograph. I buy these from a stall at London's Spitalfields Antiques Market. They date from the second half of the nineteenth century. That's also where I purchase the antique letters I use in many of the collages.</div>
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Then I slowly build up the collage / assemblage around the woman in the photo. It's mostly photos of women that I tend to buy and use. Occasionally a man or child, but these are the ones which usually speak to me.</div>
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I try different ideas out. Laying on different papers, pressed flowers, pieces of pottery, pebbles, beads. I have a small collection of porcelain doll limbs and torsos dating back to the eighteenth century from a now defunct German doll factory.</div>
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Items get moved around, discarded, brought back. It's a process that takes place over a number of days as I usually have to let things sit for a while and return to them with fresh eyes to know whether they're working or not.</div>
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Once I have - more or less - the design I want, I start to jot down notes about the woman's story in a journal for this purpose. I have an initial brainstorming session, then usually have to leave it and return a couple more times until I have the fragment of story figured out. </div>
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Some of my recent ones have had mini journals included. I make the journals, then either attach them permanently, or in a way that they can be taken off and even used if wished. </div>
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This is one of my smallest ones. About 2.5 x 2.5 cm, with hand torn, tea stained pages, Florentine marbled endpapers, leather cover and tie, and mini collage of pressed flower and scrap of antique letter on the front. </div>
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She can be seen in my Etsy shop:</div>
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In trying to solve the problem of how to frame these tiny, new paintings, I at first wondered whether I ought to frame them before offering them for sale, or simply mat them. That brought up the problem of how to mat them. What size and for what format of frame? </div>
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Deciding against those options, I chose to adhere them to the wood panels I use for my collages using acrylic medium. I've painted the edges black and signed and dated them on the back. They can hang on a nail or sit on a desk or shelf. </div>
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Three of them are now available in my Etsy shop: </div>
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I've been working on some very small paintings (10 cm x 10 cm) on paper. They're oil and cold wax with collage elements: fragments of antique letters, gold leaf, pressed flowers. </div>
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As I was working, I rather lost sight of what was happening with the individual pieces. Paint and pigments spilled over the edges of the tape creating a rather alarming visual mess. </div>
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When I took off the tape off, however, I was pleased with the results. Then I used more cold wax to adhere the collage elements. </div>
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I've just made a discovery about myself: I love revising long work. I've revised many short stories and poems, though I must admit to not really enjoying it. It always seems a chore. A drudgery. This is the first time I've revised a novel length work, due to the fact that it's only the third time that I've actually finished the first draft of a novel, and that this is the first time one's been worthy of revising.</div>
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</span>Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-25951399995462271432014-09-29T02:57:00.004-07:002014-09-29T03:58:20.779-07:00From collage to books and back again.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few months ago, my step daughter asked me if I would make a guest book for her upcoming wedding. I very happily took on the project, though it had been a while since I'd made a book of any sort. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About a dozen years ago, I took some courses through <a href="http://www.cbbag.ca/home.html">CBBAG: Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild</a>. In the last few years, I'd done very little binding and didn't realize how much I'd missed it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To get back into it, I decided to make some smaller journals. Just to refresh my skills and to become reacquainted with my tools and supplies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the past few years, rather than make books, I've been making collages. They include antique photographs and letter fragments, flowers that I pick and press, shells and pebbles I collect, hand painted papers, skeleton keys, porcelain doll parts. When the collage is at a certain stage, I write a line or more of text, print it out, stain it integrate it into the collage. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I made the first journal then, it was no surprise when I found myself including a collage on its cover. I use this one now for jotting down ideas and images which will eventually become the lines that I use on my collages. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have some gorgeous leather scraps which I've been carting around with me for years, and finally decided to use one of my favourites for a full leather binding. Which meant bringing out my leather-paring knife. I also wanted some variety, so decided to stain the pages.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The collage on the cover of this one includes a porcelain doll's arm, fragment of an antique letter, and a couple of matt glass beads.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I went on, I had some paper cut offs. As I've traditionally done with these, I made a smaller journal. I decided to use another arm from an antique porcelain doll as well as a fragment of an antique letter, and hand painted papers to decorate this one. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By this time, I started to think about my collages again and wondered how I could incorporate these mini journals into them. While Molly looked on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is how it turned out. Full circle. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her text is: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'She collected things; some forgotten, discarded, stolen:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fragments of a love letter, dead flowers from a locket, a child's first dreams,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and sang them into her book of shadows, to become songs for her own subtle magic.'</span><br />
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Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-49439869085722498692014-09-20T03:22:00.001-07:002014-09-20T03:22:33.486-07:00The evolution of a painting.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A brief, one night stay in Skerries, Ireland on the Irish Sea last month has led to a new series of oil and cold wax paintings. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(She'll be going up in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BeneathTheBracken?ref=pr_shop_more">Etsy</a> shop tomorrow.) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With my abstract oil paintings, I've come to realize that the paintings which I've been most pleased with are often the direct result of exposure to a different environment, whether it's the North Sea or Dartmoor or a village not far from where I live. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On my travels, I spent a night in Skerries, a fishing village on the Irish Sea. The photos I took there are inspiring thoughts and visual imagery which are going to make their way into my next series of paintings in oil and cold wax. I'm finding that I was as inspired by the old fishing vessels as I was by the natural environment. I started on an underpainting last night. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In November I'll be returning to Ireland to participate in a workshop taught by artist <a href="http://www.rebeccacrowell.com/">Rebecca Crowell</a>. I've admired her work for some years, and she's a bit of a pioneer in the cold wax medium. I'm looking forward to the classes and to finally meeting Rebecca. </span><br />
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It hasn't been a terribly creative time lately, but I have managed two collages. As always, I came up with a line of text inspired by each photograph and added it to the collage. </div>
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though not the final version</div>
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i've been doing a back and forth dance of finishing the first draft </div>
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it's for middle grade readers</div>
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her banshee</div>
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in a museum</div>
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my characters</div>
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Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-51574616448768591602013-09-30T00:28:00.000-07:002013-09-30T00:30:04.476-07:00molly <div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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one of the hardest things about this move</div>
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After five years in two different places in Munich, we've settled down into life in the centre of Regensburg's old town. The view from my studio room is to Haidplatz, the town's main square.<br />
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It's a beautiful Mediaeval city with narrow streets and twisty alleys everywhere. Some impressive remains of Roman walls can be seen in a few places. And whimsically coloured buildings each with their own distinct style and personality. <br />
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A couple of weeks ago, in the thick of the move, we escaped to see an art exhibit at a local gallery: <a href="http://www.kunstforum.net/wir.php">Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie</a>. It featured the figure drawings and prints by German artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz">Käthe Kollwitz</a> (1867-1945). </div>
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Not an easy exhibit. Her art is powerful. Her subject matter includes exploited weavers; peasants on the verge of revolt; women in their raw grief after losing a child. She sometimes worked in cycles, working on a specific theme and utilizing motifs and symbols over a period of years. <br />
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We discovered that right next to the gallery where the Kollwitz exhibit is running there's marionette theatre: <a href="http://www.regensburgerfigurentheater.de/">Regensburger Figurentheater im Stadtpark</a>. That's something which I'm very much looking forward to seeing. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm">Brothers Grimm</a>,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859),</span> so well known for collecting folk and fairy tales, also wrote the definitive German <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_W%C3%B6rterbuch">dictionary</a> - those green books that Molly is using as a bed. The undertaking was so ambitious that it was only completed in 1961, many years after their deaths. Alas, my German is not yet good enough to make use of it. </span><br />
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One of my all time favourite programmes, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder">Blackadder</a>, has an episode which casts one of my all time favourite actors, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Coltrane">Robbie Coltrane</a>, as Samuel Johnson: "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_and_Incapability">Ink and Incapability</a>". It deals with the creation of Johnson's dictionary. Do check it out if you can. It's a hoot and a half. </span>Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-379059809046879842013-07-01T03:39:00.000-07:002013-07-01T03:41:04.943-07:00Creative Seasons, Loathly Ladies, and Jane Austen.I don't know how deeply linked creativity is to the seasons, but I found that during the first few months of this year, with its Narnia-like ever-Winter, creating was difficult. No Spring, coupled with some side-swiping health issues, as well as a general feeling of stagnation left me with little creative energy. <br />
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It's not that I haven't been creating during these past few months, I have been, but it's been laboured, a bit of a fight. I haven't felt in a creative flow in spite of having found, once again, a lovely studio to work in - with a beautiful view to an overgrown garden. <br />
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Initially, I had thought I was going to carry on with abstract paintings based on Norse Myth which I mentioned in an <a href="http://beneaththebracken.blogspot.de/2013/01/winter-and-return-to-ginnungagap.html">earlier post</a>, but my "House of Memory" series decided that it was 'not dead yet' so I have been working on completing a few more of them for the show. I must go into the studio later today to put on the last touches and then over the next couple of days to paint the edges of the canvases. <br />
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For the past three weeks, I've also been busying myself with a German class. <br />
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When we first arrived here five years ago, I enrolled in a class. Since then, I've had opportunities to practice and improve my German in the course of day to day activities. But, given that my work is by nature largely solitary, and that I'm a very shy person, it's been perhaps been more difficult for me to pick up the language than for others who would either be forced to in their work place or through a gregarious personality. So, I'm now past the half way mark in a five day a week, three hours a day class. <br />
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My route takes me through the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_Sudfriedhof">Alter Südfriedhof</a> - the Old South Cemetery. I've written bout it <a href="http://beneaththebracken.blogspot.de/2011/06/into-green.html">before</a> when I first visited it a couple of years ago.<br />
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Here's the gateway. The brickwork is amazing. There isn't much red brick building in Munich, and I don't know why: perhaps there wasn't the right clay, or perhaps it was just preference and tradition. I for one am a sucker for red brick. I know it's an ages old building material, found all over, but for me there's still something quintessentially Victorian about it. Perhaps it's that in Toronto, where I grew up, the city is full of red brick Victorian homes. An architectural style I really miss here in Bavaria, so this is always a treat. <br />
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Last week, as I was walking through, I found this stone. Rather uncharacteristically, it has a woman's photo on it. The writing is, unfortunately, long gone, but her photo remains. She reminded me of the women in my collages.<br />
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In the garden over her grave was a wild strawberry plant with a few bright red berries. Like drops of blood, or tiny hearts. There was magic there. And perhaps a story to be told. </div>
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On the topic of stories, I wanted to share a collection of stories, poems, essays, and art which I've been thoroughly enjoying. Donna Quattrone and Virginia M. Mohlere have edited this <a href="http://www.cabinetdesfees.com/scheherezades-bequest/">Scheherezade's Bequest</a> publication: "As You Wish: the Loathly Lady Issue" (volume one, issue one). </div>
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It's beautiful. The picture on the cover is one of <a href="http://intothehermitage.blogspot.de/">Rima Staines</a>' (I'm sorry about the poor quality of my photo, I wasn't able to take a better one, but those of you who know Rima's work can imagine how gorgeous it is in person.) </div>
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I did mention that my show this month is to be my last as a resident of Munich. In the middle of August, we're moving to the beautiful mediaeval city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regensburg">Regensburg</a>. We'll be living on the forth (fifth) storey of a building which was begun in 1250 and is right in the middle of the Old Town at Haidplatz. </div>
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The building complex, called the Goldenes Kreuz, is huge and includes, along with a few apartments, a cafe, a small hotel, and a nineteenth century ballroom. And it's the ballroom along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen">Jane Austen</a> that got this whole move happening in the first place. </div>
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My husband has taken on the task, from his cousin in Regensburg, to help create a Jane Austen Regency Ball in the ballroom in November. He's been busy organizing the music, trying to keep to pieces which were in Austen's own collection, as well as finding the dances to go with them. There will be musicians and I am very happy to participate by singing a few songs. </div>
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One thing led to another and we realized that there seemed to be more opportunities for us professionally in Regensburg. When at the same time an apartment became available for this Summer, it was a sign. And we've decided to follow it. Thank you, Jane. </div>
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So. A long, rambling post about what's been going on and what will be going on now that Summer is in full swing.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve been reading Sylvia Linsteadt’s blog <a href="http://theindigovat.blogspot.com/">The Indigo Vat</a> for a while now, enjoying her image-and-word stories about the wilds of Northern California she shares with foxes, bobcats, jackrabbits, coyotes. Her stories weave a beautiful, soul-deep magic binding old tales; the wilderness of her home; and the wilderness deep within each of us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Recently, she has been offering monthly retellings of old tales through her “Gray Fox Epistle” series. I received her tale for May: a re-telling of the Scottish tale Tamlin. Everything about it is enchanting. You can read about the creation of each of her tales at her <a href="http://theindigovat.blogspot.com/p/the-gray-fox-epistles.html">Gray Fox Epistle blog</a>.</span></div>
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Coming home with my hands full the other day, I put down my items on any clear space I could find in my painting room. I liked the way the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_meleagris">snakeshead fritillary</a> looked against the painting I'm currently working on so decided to take a snap. Makes me wish I was a botanical painter! </div>
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I'm putting together a new series of paintings for a show I have in July. It's based on Norse Myth and I began with a small group of paintings titled Élivágar which I mentioned in an <a href="http://beneaththebracken.blogspot.de/2013/01/winter-and-return-to-ginnungagap.html">earlier blog post</a>. The painting pictured here, is one is one of a pair inspired by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim">Niflheim</a>, the Land of Mist in the north; counter to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muspelheim">Muspelheim</a>, Land of Fire in the south. </div>
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My current show is running in a Ministry building here in Munich until the beginning of May. It's a mix of pieces from three series, as well as some odds and sods. I've sold one piece so far, which I'm very happy about not least of which because It's one of my largest ones and at 150 x 180 cm I was worried about where to put it after the show. (Losing my studio also meant losing the place to store my paintings.) </div>
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And, my latest collage: "Her father taught her to know the fairies by name." </div>
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For a while now I've been thinking about painting watercolour images of women and girls and adding papers and old letters and a line of text like I do in my collages. I've only just begun to experiment, but once I've got something finished, I'll post some pictures. <br />
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<a href="http://niteblade.com/home/march-2013/">Blodeuwedd: Issue 23</a> of <a href="http://niteblade.com/home/">Niteblade: Fantasy and Horror Magazine</a> is up! </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2e29; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Destination</b> by Ken Poyner</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2e29; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Blodeuwedd</b> by Virginia M. Mohlere</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2e29; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many thanks to <a href="http://www.rhondaparrish.com/">Rhonda Parrish</a> founder of the magazine, and to <a href="http://tigerinthematchstickbox.blogspot.de/">Alexa Seidel</a> poetry editor for including my piece in this issue! </span></span>Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-72478463888664600382013-02-26T00:33:00.001-08:002013-02-26T00:33:31.774-08:00she spent her nights in the forest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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my latest collage. </div>
Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-6742585922218017262013-02-21T00:40:00.002-08:002013-02-21T00:53:40.082-08:00wings of story<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An early memory. I’m sitting cross legged in the gym of my primary school during an assembly. As usual, I’m daydreaming. In this daydream, wings sprout from my back and I rise above the heads of the other children and the teachers. A hole opens in the roof and I fly up and off into the waiting sky, a euphoric grin on my face. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Another memory. Although living in the middle of a big city, I regularly seek out, with a friend, those magical places behind a row of garages where cloaking ivy grows and where old scraps of paper we find became treasure maps; scratches in dilapidated fences become secret symbols; and discarded junk becomes treasure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">*this post is in response to Terri Windling's latest Moveable Feast "<a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/2011/02/on-blogging-post-script.html">The Desire for Dragons</a>" over at her blog <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/">Myth & Moor</a>.</span></div>
Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-35919787104336446582013-02-05T04:57:00.001-08:002013-02-05T05:22:13.471-08:00faerie dances<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I'm working on a series of collages, or in this case two series, I usually lay out a few of the canvas or wooden supports I'm going to use as well as the boxes of materials: papers, scraps of fabric, antique photos, pressed flowers and leaves, antique letters, glass beads, old keys...<br />
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For the first few days I experiment, placing items here and there, trying to come up with combinations that make sense to me: the feel of a certain key with the handwriting on a certain hundred and fifty year old letter...<br />
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The ones with the antique photographs take longer. I've decided to start with eight of the photos I bought in London's Spitalfields antiques market in November. They are all women, which wasn't intentional, but I found that as I was looking through the countless boxes of old photographs they had, it was the women - and girls - who spoke to me. They intrigued me. Each looked like she had a story to tell. <br />
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With these, it's not just the composition of the collage that I'm after, it's also the line of story. I jot down notes, ideas, and images in a notebook. Once I've found the right one for each woman, I print them, cut them out, then stain the paper with water colours. So far I have words for six of the eight. Finding just the right line for each photograph is, I think, my favourite part of the whole process. (Yes, that is Molly in the bottom left of the photo.)<br />
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Once I'm certain about the composition of a collage, I paste all of the pieces onto the support with acrylic medium. <br />
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Here are the first two non-photo collages. These belong to the "Nostalgia" series which I've popped into my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BeneathTheBracken?ref=si_shop">Etsy</a> shop. <br />
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Here's the only one of the women I've finished so far. <br />
Her line is: "She kept the hearts of her loved ones pressed in a book on her topmost shelf."<br />
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She looks quite at home on a bookshelf herself.<br />
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And...as I write this, Molly is in the process of trying to un-make some of my collages. I do have a door to my room, but can't bear to hear her meowing on the other side to be let in... <br />
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<br />Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-89373154569038534522013-01-12T05:25:00.001-08:002013-01-12T06:07:51.153-08:00Winter and a return to Ginnungagap. After weeks of temperatures hovering between 6 and 10˚, grey skies and rain, we finally woke up to Winter. <br />
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I've put up photos of my latest series of small oil and cold wax paintings on my <a href="http://www.hardaker.de/">website</a>.<br />
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It's titled Élivágar. <br />
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The name comes from Norse Creation Mythology and was the general name given the eleven rivers (or Storm Waves) which existed at the Beginning. They filled the great void Ginnungagap with ice, which formed the Frost Giant: Ymir, father of all giants, from whose slain body the world was created. <br />
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The story can be found in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorri_Sturluson">Snorri Sturluson</a>'s "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_Edda">The Prose Edda</a>", a compilation and retelling of Norse Myth put together in Iceland in the first half of the Thirteenth Century. It occurs in the section titled "Gylfaginning" and it goes like this in my version:<br />
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"When those rivers, which are called Elivagar [Storm Waves], came so far from their source, the poisonous flow hardened like a slag of cinders running from a furnace, and became ice. When this ice began to solidify and no longer ran, poisonous drops spewed out and froze into icy rime [hoar frost]. Then layer by layer, the ice grew within Ginnungagap." [Snorri Sturluson: <i>The Prose Edda</i>, trans. Jesse L. Byock (London: Penguin Classics, 2005), 13.]<br />
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Over the next while, I'm going to continue reading and musing, sketching and painting. There are a few other pieces on the go. The return of Winter makes it easier to delve into these stories of the frozen North. Tales of Gods and Goddesses; of battles and trickery; Giants, Dwarves, of the time Before. It's always fascinating, and sometimes surprising, to see how inspiration takes shape in one's work.<br />
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<br />Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939857316909930127.post-50666558642607616812013-01-07T01:58:00.001-08:002013-01-07T10:17:29.758-08:00no place like homeOn New Year's Day we went for a walk to clear away the cobwebs spun by the late night and by glasses of bubbly. We also wanted to survey the post pyro-circus damage. <br />
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Absolutely everywhere, there were empty bottles lined up and used to launch bottle rockets. <br />
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I'm always surprised not to see cars with the ends of rockets sticking out of them; or tendrils of smoke escaping from shattered living room windows. <br />
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Thousands of half-looped revelers with lighters and explosives. Amazing there isn't more damage, actually. <br />
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Someone's trailer was used as a launch pad. <br />
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In spite of the chaos, many citizens did indeed take their bottles to the crammed-full recycling bins and lined them up neatly. Even sorting them by colour. (!)<br />
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There were prettier sights along the Isar River.<br />
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There's one particular spot which is a magnet for swans and at any time of year you can go there and find scores and scores of them. <br />
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When they take off in flight, the sound is unbelievable, a swooshing thwap which makes you aware of just how huge and powerful these birds really are. <br />
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Geese and Gulls and Crows also frolicked.<br />
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All this under a Winter sky.<br />
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On the walk home through the forest, I found this tiny nest.<br />
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A book I'm currently reading and enjoying immensely has to do with forests.<br />
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<a href="http://www.saramaitland.com/home.html">Sara Maitland</a>'s "Gossip From the Forest: the Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales."<br />
Maitland spent a year visiting twelve different forests around Great Britain. She looks at them not only as important ecological entities, but also as what they mean for our deep story-rooted past. At the end of each chapter, she rewrites a known tale. I find her writing clear and witty and I totally agree with her Rumpelstiltskin - a tale I've always found frustratingly unfair. <br />
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Late one night in our indoor forest of one, odd sounds roused me from bed. Turning the lights on full blast, I found the cause. <br />
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Earlier, when I told my husband that it would be fun when Molly first tries to climb the tree, he said that there's no way she could do that. <br />
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He's never had a cat before.<br />
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And now with the New Year already in swing, and the children (finally!) back in school, I can get back to work. I've unfortunately had to move out of my studio. It was a beautiful, old place that I took so much inspiration from, but I've had to leave. (My landlord and I are having a disagreement, and I've - regrettably - had to ask for legal council over the matter.)<br />
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I've had very bad luck with studios here, so I'm going to paint from home from now on. Our flat is very small, but people have - and do - work under far worse circumstances, so in the spirit of "counting my blessings," I've once again organized my room for work. <br />
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My collage shelves.<br />
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Paint shelves.<br />
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Paint trolley.<br />
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Work table. <br />
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I have two shows coming up, one for March and April, and another for July. I'm upswing about that. <br />
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I've also joined a full-manuscript critique writer's group - a spin off of the <a href="http://sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com/">Online Writer's Workshop</a> for writers of Fantasy, Horror, and Sci-Fi. There are nine of us, and we have a March 15th deadline. That's perfect for me. I've been wanting to get back to my fiction writing for ages, and now I've got the perfect incentive. <br />
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It feels good to start the year with all this momentum. <br />
And I still stick by what I said in the last post: I do have a very good feeling about 2013.<br />
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(Gotta be better than 2012 was.)<br />
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