Ground Rules for The Carers From the get-go I had to dictate some serious ground rules for The Carers. No picking up and hugging; no sitting on laps; no petting if I don’t feel like it; no playing Mister Nice Guy with Visitors; and no other cat persons in MY garden. I can smell when […]
Tuti’s Blog #1 – Tuti Fruti
Tuti Fruti I should really introduce myself. I hesitate only because I am a trifle embarrassed by my name. Of course it is not the name I would have chosen for myself. I would have preferred something with a bit more gravitas appropriate to my feline male ego, like ‘Tiger’ or ‘Tutankhamun the Third’. But […]
Los Trovadores
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Troubadour
Troubadour introduction I have been drawn to various ‘figures’ from narrative sources as a means of contextualising artistic practices in a slightly ‘colourful’ way. I have consistently drawn on the implications of the coyote trickster figure, albeit reconfigured as the Hermetic. According to Michel Serres, the troubadour is also a figure that, like trickster (or […]
El Opossum
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Opossum
Opossum introduction I have tried to gather trickster stories from most of the geographies with which I have had close relations. One of these is Mexico. Here opossum –or tlacuache – in folk tales is a trickster figure, but what interests me is that tlacuache is a rare female trickster. The speculation for this ‘deviation’ […]