No Image

Lygia and the Bull 4

8 April 2010 JohnU 0

There’s just no rest for that poor girl, is there? Today, I played.  With the colors.  With special effects.  Exploring different ways of seeing it, […]

No Image

The Hungry Spider

7 April 2010 JohnU 0

Underground, where the subways roll, where the smells are unfamiliar and uncomfortable, where secrets aren’t buried but simply lost, there’s a spider casting its web. […]

No Image

Lygia and the Bull 3

7 April 2010 JohnU 0

The bronze statue is, if not actually life size, very close to it.  Here it is in its golden glory. (For the record, there’s nothing […]

No Image

Locomotive Gods

6 April 2010 JohnU 0

The tracks lead east through the woods. The tracks lead west. They curve slightly, perhaps, but continue to some faraway stations Sue has never seen. […]

No Image

Lygia and the Bull 2

6 April 2010 JohnU 0

A close-up.  She’s distressed.  Well, of course, she’s tied to a bull.  (In the original novel, I believe she was sacrificed to the bull; in […]

No Image

Bad Throw

5 April 2010 JohnU 0

You know it won’t go well. The kid’s not quite in the corner, not quite in the shadows, with the gothic hair and iron piercings […]

No Image

Lygia and the Bull

5 April 2010 JohnU 0

This week, I’ll be examining this statue.  It sits on the grounds of the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, and was inspired by an 1895 […]

No Image

The Game

4 April 2010 JohnU 0

Shadows hide the body in the alley, where it cools, and decomposes, and stinks to high heaven.  The blood beneath the corpse is coagulating, not […]

No Image

Storm Bringer

3 April 2010 JohnU 0

Quite suddenly, she opened her eyes. Outside, the night was peaceful, even pleasant, but clouds gathered in the corners of the sky and the temperature […]