January has been a bit of a trial thus far: lots of worries and troubles, and also lots to look forward to, but it's been hard to get my mouth around the stress-sandwich that my life has been lately.

I've been reflecting a bit on 2010, though, and I think I met most of the scattered goals I'd set last year. I trained for and kicked ass in a half- ( Read more... )

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Paintings by Anne Bachelier: my mind goes first to Angela Carter's fairy-tale stories, and second to Changeling (having just read The Shining Host in anticipation of playing a sidhe at this weekend's game).

If I could costume something like this...


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Three of my favorite artists whose work I'll probably never be able to afford:

Rafal Olbinski (kinda surrealist)

Colette Calascione (again, kinda surrealist)

Roz Marshall (Renaissance meets Expressionism)

I especially recommend looking at Calascione's recent work if you dig hybridity, abjection, and all that good stuff. Such as:


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