New and On View: Mudlark Poster No. 64 (2006)
Mutabilities by Brenda Hammack
after paintings by Remedios Varo
I. Mimesis | II. Discovery of a Mutant Geologist | III. Unexpected Visit
IV. The Useless Science or the Alchemist | V. Creation of the Birds
Brenda Hammack's work has appeared in The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Tar
Wolf Review, Heliotrope, The Hurricane Review, The North Carolina Literary
Review, The Laurel Review, and various other journals. She teaches
Victorian literature, children's literature, and an interdisciplinary
course on images of women at Fayetteville State University.
Remedios Varo, an expatriate painter of Spanish origin, living in France
and, then, Mexico, absorbed the mystical traditions of many cultures,
transmuting them into celestial spindrift (i.e. noctilucent objects that
orbited the heads of jugglers, artists, and otherwordly scholars in oil on
masonite). Varo was greatly influenced by the French surrealists,
including Andre Breton, as well as by occult philosophers (Gurdjieff,
Blavatsky, Ouspensky). Her mutabilities are science filtered through
alembic, natural law as translated by tarot. Varo was born in Angles in
1910; she died in Mexico City in 1963.
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William Slaughter
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