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...from wolf land in north Portugal (Galicia) two wolf tales....
Wolf Queen 2022 tells the first century legend of Queen Lupa. It was her territory, where the body of St. James was carried 'in a stone boat drifting from the Mediterranean' to be buried by his disciples. A crazy story on both sides, Queen Lupa outwitted Romans, Visigoths, Catholic Church, local rulers, Muslim conquerers, and Spanish empire to remain unconquered. An 11th century monk writes about her in his travel book written for the Pope on the pilgrimage path to St. James' burial site in Santiago Cathedral. The monk tries to erase, propagandise and slander Queen Lupa at the same time. Meanwhile the Church was creating St. James patron of the crusades. Portuguese singer Tamara Pereira. Planet of Dreams
Red Hood is from MauMau Blood Dreams 2024, a film and print series. I became aware of the fairytales and fables that originated in Galicia's north Portugal while researching the 2022 Wolf Queen film. The Neolithic tales morphed through millennium, revealing dark truths about our nature. Today these stories are the narrative of film, fiction, and visual arts. And I decided I wanted to write my own...in process...MauMau Blood Dreams
"Like a fairytale, the further on, the more sinister…”
Как в сказке, чем дальше тем страшнее
Einstein is credited as having said: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
https://www.youtube.com/live/v3HaojX9VbY
https://www.youtube.com/live/jTYR9dUI91w
Two super early vids....WhisperWish from Signs, Wishes and Wonders 2008 with Grat Bodkin music. The Merry Go Round animals and ride was newly renovated, re-finished re-painted by San Francisco artists and art commission as I understand ...I can't stress how impossible to find such a beautiful ride anywhere in the US as this, even in Disneyland where artisans are paid well. This was a work of love and I stood in wonder at the detail like the hippo on the zebra saddle and the carving ....incredible.
And Rogue Con from Mr. E. 2008 with Christa Hunter performer and Jeff Crouch music. I am often intrigued by noir newspaper crime articles...mostly by women thieves and con artists and use their tale. Especially the ones who succeed eluding capture.
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MauMau Blood Dreams 2024 follow the fairytale and fable story form, into the original, dark and primordial consciousness that brings us to our present world narrative. The first video is Moon Is A Dagger
The 2008 video series Signs, Wishes &Wonders draws on the same form to produce contemporary video fable: WhisperWish, Once Upon A Sign, The Wicked Witch Gets Her Wish.
....series in process...
https://www.youtube.com/live/c5g91jZ8xBQ. 6:30 PM EST USA - 11:30H EU
In the anti-war and vacation culture video Last Exit, the bleak, worker’s noir, 1945 Club Paradise film, released the same year Nagasaki/ Hiroshima was bombed and Hitler died, is re-mixed with poetry dialogue to become a romantic vacation advertisement that comments on perception, storytelling and propaganda. From the larger multimedia project Club Paradise: vacation culture, consciousness and capitalism and the selling of holiday 2019. Marketed vacation migration is compared to early nomadic tribes led by their shaman on the tracks of game. Only now the game pursued is a state of mind to produce a worker’s consciousness tolerant of capitalist slavery. With Jeff Crouch music.
It's the last exit
meet me there
we have all night
under the moon
don't go too far
you'll pass the bar
I'll wait
by the gate
don't be late
I hate
to be alone
on a night like this
senses awake
skin tight sunburn
first day in the sea
I slept under a tree
until three
and swam again
what a memory.
Let's stay up all night
sleep until noon
the sea meets the sky
you can't tell where
the night meets eternity
you can't tell when
we'll be here again
on vacation
with friends
dancing
under the stars
swimming in the sun
having fun
feeling groovy
happy in love
moon up above
nothing to do
but sit and share with you
an incredible view
(sit and stare at you)
what a souvenir
our reverie
time free.
Memories live
someday we'll die
tonight is forever
a dream,
don't pass it,
at the last exit....
Club Paradise.
...with Jonathan Minton text and Diana Magallon music in Guadalajara, Mexico and me in Portugal it is an email poetry and art video...https://www.wordforword.info/vol42/Chapman.html
...we have been working on things together since 2006 - or earlier... no, we have never met in person. He sends poetry, music and images, many ideas... so being Easter and all, a very colourful day in the world of solar consciousness and Jeffs's images like psychedelic easter eggs...I figured we'd start this holiday with Jeff's work - with SideShow Kids. From ShadowMaster 2009 series, 'on the road with performers of an American traveling medicine show.' Adapted from Jeff's poem 'Sideshow Kids.' I used a lot of his images in vids, animations, as well as mail art - well, it's all mail art with our work.
Traveling medicine shows (late 1800's-early1900's) were part freak show, circus, runaways, ex-cons, snake oil elixir pitches, and hustlers, with roots in comedia d'el arte. Sometimes someone might read Shakespeare, or sing. Maybe.
Following are some recent images but I'll be pulling up waaaay more in the weeks, maybe they were used in animation or collaborations... but they are all over my black hole computer - insanity my office skills.
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YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/3WWjWUUHui8
the southern winter, 2023, issue of Otoliths
Mark Young of Otoliths has been showing my work forever...
with SHINZO CO-STAR https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2023/06/cecelia-chapman_4.htm
