vorpal

a visual notebook for me to use during my MFA

[hanathemah]

25 November 2018

London, England

[hanathemah]

painting: 23 November 2018 poem: 29-30 November 2018

there is color but the color is mostly outside the lines inside it is black and white black music notes in white spaces on a bending staff moving up a bent leg a book opened to black words on white pages written in two languages and curved letters by the curve of a knee also a black cat but not a cat you have seen before its collar (or is that a bow tie) is infinite rainbow its heart is in its tail below the cat a note on a foot marking a place and above the cat a yellow star marking some other place above that star empty space and empty face until a green fiery ponytail all these things live within the outline of the body while beyond a hand clutches a sparking wand a cape blows to one side filled with heroic blue/red and royal purple but the cape is only worn and the wand is only grasped while the black and white is held inside

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peter

from a workshop with Ross Sutherland 16 November 2018 inspired by a Wikipedia snippet on a festival at Epcot

I met a girl a few weeks ago in a comic book shop. I was looking at a comic on the new releases wall about Peter Pan, except Peter Pan was female not like how female actors have played the male role but a female Peter Pan character ... it’s not important

The point is this girl was browsing nearby me and I got distracted because the whole tip of her index finger was a luminous green I thought maybe she’d dipped it in paint I checked the price on the Peter Pan comic and then she spoke to me

“Hey,” she said, “I made a Peter Pan topiary for Epcot” I looked up at her, confused and surprised and only having heard about half her sentence, to be honest “What?” She smiled patiently “You like Peter Pan?” “Yeah,” I said, “sure. Even better as a girl” “You know the  Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival?” “Yeah, sure,” I lied She must’ve realised from my tone because she said, “It happens every spring at Disney World. There’s topiaries of Disney characters.” “Right,” I said She told me again—“I made the Peter Pan topiary” she told me this was in 2015 she told me how she grew the plant how she sculpted it into the shape of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell flying in a haze of tiny twinkling lights symbolizing pixie dust

I glanced down at the cover of the comic in my hands again girl-Peter was standing with her legs wide her hands on her hips a mischievous smile twisting her lips I tried to imagine her in plant form leafier greener greener. my eyes flicked to the girl’s index finger “Maybe next spring you can do this version,” I said, holding up the comic But the girl shook her head she said that it was just a one-time thing they never invited her back to Epcot I asked why she shrugged “Maybe my topiary was too good,” she said too realistic, I thought and then wondered why I had thought that

The girl did a sort of shuffle with her feet like she was getting ready to leave I wanted to say something to make her stay but didn’t “You going to buy your comic?” she asked I blinked, processing what she’d said “No,” I said I set it back on the shelf with the other new releases from indie publishers one of the corners was a little pinched bent from where I’d held it too tightly but only barely

When I looked up again the girl was gone I drifted through the shop under the guise of looking for Star Wars trade paperbacks but really I was thinking maybe that idiom—having a green thumb had its basis in fact only somewhere along the way someone mixed up the fingers.

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eyes I dare not meet in dreams

Undead girls begin re-entering the world of the living, emerging from refrigerators.

“eyes I dare not meet in dreams”

Sunny Moraine

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22 November 2018

Cutter & Squidge

London, England

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6 November 2018

London, England

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6 November 2018

London, England

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6 November 2016

London, England

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3 November 2018

London, England

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3 November 2018

London, England

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1968: Protest and the Photobook

Tate Modern

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2 November 2018

Tate Britain

London, England

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2 November 2017

Tate Britain

London, England

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2 November 2018

London, England

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31 October 2018

London, England

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31 October 2018

Toynbee Studios

London, England

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31 October 2018

Toynbee Studios

London, England