Dreamtime Spring Highjack, Camille Rose Garcia, 2011Musing On: the Technicolour Goblinscape of Camille Rose GarciaRereading: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell JarListening to Drone Metal Soundscapes & Highly Textured Bops.Planning: The Vernal Outlier Hour—and you’re invited!Musing On: Technicolour Goblinscape of Camille Rose Garcia Camille Rose Garcia. Green Cave Skuller, 2006

I’ve been returning to the paintings of Camille Rose Garcia–an Orange County, CA Surrealist of the highest order. She now lives in the rural Pacific Northwest, and the shift in her work is fascinating. Having seen the surface of her paintings ‘in the flesh,’ they are elaborate layers of texture–not simply the graphic personas they appear to be here. Her work has influenced on me for decades. She claims Walt Disney and Phillip K. Dick as influences–both, it could be argued, are Orange County surrealists, too. This interview is worth reading.

Rereading: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar The 1980s mass market edition of The Bell Jar I owned as a young woman who was just way too close to this narrative.

Maud help me—I have returned to Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, having read it over forty years ago. I was inspired to revisit it after hearing it referenced in artist Mike Kelley’s Kandor pieces.

[HERE BE SPOILERS] I had remembered viscerally many details in the book but had completely brain wiped so much of the clinical depression in the book, the suicide attempts, and the utter gaslighting negligence of the doctor character. They were obviously subsumed like the parallel traumas I was experiencing in my own life when I first read it.

Listening To Earth & Meljoann

I’ve been listening to this live recording of Earth in London—chthonic lyricism abounds:

The vision that is Meljoann

Meljoann’s new album Status—highly textured bops. Listen-download-purchase here.

In Meljoann’s words “I like to think of it as the soundtrack to your digital detox”