Myth and Masks offer
Some sample pages of Myth and Masks
: “As I prepare to move to a new rented property next month I keep looking at all my belongings and want to lighten the load. …”
Blogposts tagged as “Myth”
Armageddon Gospels
: “Earlier this week I was privileged to watch a sneaky advance screening of Armageddon Gospels. …”
Notes on re-enchantment as resistance in Deep England
Stanmer Woods, near Brighton, taken by the author
: “Yesterday I posed a question on Twitter as a short thread that I’ll reformat here for easy reading: …”
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Deep England
: “On some days, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, it is said that you can glimpse the mythical land of Deep England, particularly if you read the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, or the…”
Re-enchantment, Metaphoric Density, and Deep Myth
Bark mask by the author
: “Shortly before Christmas David Southwell (he of Hookland Guide fame) and I met up for a few festive beers in London. We spoke about many things, but one topic that has been buzzing around my head…”
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England’s Dark Dreaming (Part III)
Detail from the first drawing in the series
: “I’ve now finished the first 5 of my England’s Dark Dreaming series of drawings. I wish I could show you them at their full size—one metre high—rather than the relatively small digital…”
England’s Dark Dreaming (Part II)
Detail from the first drawing in the series
: “I'm increasingly convinced that the country is temporally fractured, and we should be expecting a visit from Sapphire & Steel any time now. Everything seems to operate on skewed oneiric logic.…”
England’s Dark Dreaming
Detail from the first drawing in the series
: “A few days ago on Twitter I was thinking out loud about the film The Witch, which I watched on Saturday evening, specifically about its relationship to the theme of Folk Horror which is getting some…”
Masks and Photography, Ritual and Film
Masks made by the author
: “Over on Twitter yesterday I posted a series of tweets that, merged together, went something like this: …”
Ritual
The Procession, charcoal drawing by the author
: “As I’ve been developing a body of artwork about myth and masked mythic characters over the past few years my thought process has frequently been drawn to the concept of ritual. Not everyday rituals…”
Me, elsewhere
The Procession, charcoal drawing by the author
: “It’s been a busy few months, and I realise I haven’t been blogging as frequently as last year. The main reasons for this is that I’ve been doing a lot more artwork (such as the drawing above -…”
The English Eerie (slight return)
Detail of one of the author's Badb Catha photographs
: “The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world. …”
Rook feathers, wool, and flint
Stonehenge, by the author
: “I’ve just got back from Wiltshire where we’ve been wandering around the prehistoric ritual landscape that includes Stonehenge. …”
Myth and constant liminality
Photograph by the author
: “I’m typing this in a hotel lobby at the corner of Lexington and East 37th in Manhattan, and I can’t think of anywhere further removed from the subjects on my mind: wilderness, mythic archetypes,…”
England’s eerie dreaming
Photograph by the author
: “Sometimes you read an article or blog post that sums up much of what you’ve been thinking around, and that’s good. When the article not only does this, but is also written incredibly well and goes…”
On fairy tales and witches
Agostino Veneziano (fl. 1509–1536), The Witches’ Rout (The Carcass). Engraving, c. 1520.
: “I’ve recently started reading Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner - something which coincided with a visit to the Witches & Wicked Bodies exhibition at the British…”
More about Nature and Myth
The Crow Priestess> (detail) by the author
: “In my somewhat pretentiously-titled post The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness a couple of weeks ago I wrote: …”
Life drawing and some photography
: “On Monday I took the day off from my day job to get some artwork done. …”
The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness
Photograph by the author
: “Do you ever have one of those moments where you realise that a number of seemingly disparate things you are reading, watching, or pondering are actually all connected and swirling around a central…”
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Sketches, Masks, and Trinkets
: “I wrote about my ideas for the next series of photographs/prints in a post in February and since then I’ve been working on the mask and other props, and drawing out some very quick (5 minute)…”