Theme for April

Uncanny & Unreal

“The more real you get,
the more unreal the world gets.”
― John Lennon

  • Illustrating Nightmares: Lounge Lizards by Ralph Steadman

    To say that Ralph Steadman has a distinctive style is a bit of an understatement. Primarily an illustrator and cartoonist, Steadman started his career in the 1960s and soon established himself as a counter-culture icon [...]

  • Otherworldly Reflection: MC Escher’s Puddle

    M.C. Escher created Puddle in 1952. It is a woodcut that depicts a simple scene - a puddle in the middle of an unpaved path through the woods. The path is muddy, you can see footprints heading in both directions [...]

  • Notes from the Dreaming: A Shape in the Darkness

    In the darkness, you were dreaming. Dreaming and that is all. You did not see what you thought you saw. You did not experience what you thought you thought was so real. There was not a shape, a shape in [...]

  • The Blood Elevator: Its Meaning & Symbolism

    The blood elevator scene, sometimes called the ‘river of blood,” from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a horrifying and disturbing image in a film full of horrifying and disturbing images.  Upon watching it the scene produces in many – myself [...]

  • Halloween by Arthur Peterson

    The poem 'Halloween' follows the narrator as he seeks out the supernatural on Halloween night, and to his delight finds it [...]

  • I Remember Magic

    I am driving home from work in the rain. The traffic is heavy and I am upset. Not at anything, in particular, just a strange combination of angry-sad, non-focused malaise. I have a feeling of something is wrong, there is [...]