Caroline Halliday
artist writer curator arts organiser
the function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it’s to imagine what is possible.” bell hooks
I Have Come from Myself,
Medusa
She liked to shut doors as a little girl. I always have my door propped open, so I can hear the street door, I'd say, and she'd close it. You couldn't tell her. Time and again I'd tell her, 'don't move the doorstop Marjy, I've put it there for a purpose.' And she'd say, 'I want the door shut, Elizabeth Lennox.'
'Why?' I'd say.
'To keep the secrets in.'
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Medusa: The Female Gaze is the greatest threat to the dominant male gaze
Iphegenia,
Stories of
Mothers, Sisters and other Goddesses
Iphegenia is the story of Clytemnestra and Electra
Electra doesn't dress like a princess.
Imagine her in your student days, early 60's. long black jumpers down to your knees and those short trousers called trews, tight down the thigh and short in the calf. Red lipstick and cigarette.
J.E. Harrison describes the story of Athena's birth from Zeus' head as 'a desperate theological expedient to rid her of her matriarchal conditions.'
Also ' a dogmatic insistence on wisdom as a male prerogative; hitherto the Goddess alone had been wise.'
This Ancient Bedrock
Called Desire
And I was thinking about my ticket to Timbuktu, well, dated tomorrow, and my padlocked suitcase and my dog, Better than Nothing, who I loved more than anything - And this woman with curly hair, and lovely wrinkles round her eyes
So, I said, you're a vet
Well, that's
Better Than Nothing
Writing is a Drop of Blood in the
Palm of the Hand
Nicole Brossards 'crossing through the symbol' is a key text for me. it means consistently and deliberately deconstructing the 'symbolic meanings in our language/society' and 'crossing through them' to another/a new place of unknowing.
if I write this what happens across the world there are women fighting in armies needing sanitary towels fighting with babies
on their backs
The Bowl With The Jagged Edge
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