I-Ching-dérive
On Friday 20 February 2015, the Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will host a “biblioderive” (http://biblioderive.tumblr.com/about): “Bibliodérive is the application of the Situationist International
Make Your Own Moses
An empty stage but for a bare unpainted wooden table. Enter Moses, borne by three black-clad people. He is limp, lifeless. The people look at one another, giggling, smiling giddily.
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A Gallery in New Orleans
On Chartres Street in New Orleans’s French Quarter is a galley for photography called A Gallery (http://www.agallery.com ). I walked by late when the place was closed. Rain slick cobbles
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Pelicans Can Swim
The picture is an old-fashioned sepia-toned photograph. (Indeed it is silver leaf, kozo paper, resin on dibond.) It is divided into four window panes. First to take hold of our
The Pelican Ghost
The great literatus — journalist, translator, critic, novelist and connoisseur of curiosities — Lafcadio Hearn recounts the tale of the pelican ghost: “There used to be a Pelican in the
Pelican Mother of the King
The Pelican symbol is as old as Egypt. “The Pelican (Henet in Egyptian), found in livestock scenes on the walls of courtiers’ tombs, figures in royal funerary texts from the
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Nostro Pelicano
New Orleans. New Year’s Day. A misty morning. In the distance, a train whistle screams. Church bells toll and toll, monotonously. Close by, laughter and profanity echo up from Chartres