Personal Archives
an ongoing poetic examination of self
a box of lost things
contents: poetry, scissors, a name, fallen wings, self-reflection, a cowry shell, a key
a box of demons
contents: six worry dolls; a shadow
a box of joy
contents: eleven shiny things
a box of stolen things
contents: thirteen used ikea pencils
a box of courage
contents: a star, a rainbow, a poisoned berry, four hats, an open hand
a box of false hope
contents: coloured balloons, shards, a paper crane, a lump in my throat
a box of broken things
contents: three broken shells, a broken pattern, stopped clockwork, a porcelain shard, sea glass, a cut photograph, a broken bracelet, a broken parasol, a crushed bird, a torn feather, a loose cog, a stained dress
a box of heartbreak
contents: twenty-one paper cranes
a box of providence
contents: a metro-ticket frog, a scrap of cloth, a crumpled bank note
a box of mourning
contents: a feather, a permission slip, a child's gaze, confetti, a crumpled heart, the jack of spades, a bead, a star, a shell, a pierced coin, a paper crane
a box of melancholy
contents: a telltale heart
a box of childhood dreams
contents: two birthday candles, four sea shells, a mountain rock, a rose pin, a paper star, a cartoon mouse, the deathly hallows, a fortune teller, a stranger, a projector slide, a hazelnut, a charm bracelet, an unsolved puzzle ring
a box of homesickness
contents: four seashells, two pieces of quartz, a branch of coral
a box of repressed feelings
contents: darkness, a feather, lapsang tea, a milk tooth, a ficus leaf, cowry shells, coloured pencil leads, a scrap of cloth, healing herbs, a lock of hair, a love note, a sprig of heather
a box of positive feedback
contents: twelve folded notes
Major Arcana
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Countee Cullen, ‘Saturday’s Child’
Carson McCullers, ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’
Max Gladstone, The Craft Sequence
Sarah Ahmed, ‘Queer Phenomenology’
W. S. Graham, ‘The Beast in the Space’
Big Thief, ‘Simulation Swarm’
Paul B. Préciado, ‘Un Appartement Sur Uranus’
Kafka, ‘The Metamorphosis’
Gabriel Fauré, ‘Après Un Rêve’
Claude Cahun, ‘I am in training, don’t kiss me’
E. E. Cummings, ‘somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond’
Rebecca Stead, ‘When You Reach Me’
L. Frank Baum, ‘Oz’
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Sergei Parajanov, ‘The Colour Of Pomegranates’
Savannah Brown, Escapril
Magritte x Scutenaire, ‘Le Portrait’
Poe, ‘The Masque Of The Red Death’
Frida Kahlo, ‘El Sueño’
Harry Clarke, Illustrations for ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination’
Nan Goldin, ‘The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency’
Miró, ‘Woman Encircled by the Flight of a Bird’
Marguerite Duras, ‘Moderato Cantabile’
Georges Bataille, ‘Dictionnaire Critique’
Hieronymus Bosch, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’
Miyazaki, ‘Spirited Away’
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Ana Mendieta, ‘Silueta’ Series
Edna O’Brien, ‘The Mouth Of The Cave’
Pierre Bottero, ‘Le Pacte Des Marchombres’
H. P. Lovecraft, ‘The Whisperer In The Darkness’
Andrea Gibson in Button Poetry
Ionesco, ‘Rhinocéros’
Townes Van Zandt x Be Good Tanyas, ‘Waiting’ Around To Die’
Flann O’Brien, ‘The Third Policeman’
Paul Verlaine, ‘La Chanson de Gaspard Hauser’
Nell Stewart, ‘Agadoo’
Manu Duclos, ‘Red Hell’
Leo McCabe, The Olympia
Yayoi Kusama, ‘You Who Are Getting Obliterated In A Dancing Swarm Of Fireflies’
Marin Marais, ‘La Folia’
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Nietzsche, ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’
J. K. R*wling