Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
sparking on air as in the center of a far away galaxy the archangels awaken from their long night and flex their wings . . .towards earth or the other way . . .time to wait and see . . . something that is not for mere humans to decide . . .
my fall series post for today published on my Substack at the link if you’d like to see. Please scroll down to the bottom to see all the images. Thanks!
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-september-120
Oh to be here.
Perfect. A new apartment and a new life. Or something. Only a sort of mountain view, but across the street from three banks competing on just about everything, including the electronic sign variety of high school cheerleader pom-poms dancing their way up into the sky all night long, all in various shades of money green.
My new short piece of fiction posted to my Substack. The rest is at this link if you’d like to see
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2017-eight-oclock
The Pearl. From the series Mysteries of Love and Space II. Layered photograph of Bolivian salt flats. Navina Khatib, photographer. Photo credit Navina Khatib. via https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/salt-flat-landscape-bolivia
waltzing in air on the smile of the sphinx as the raptor awakens from her morning nap and stares down from the top of the mast of a ghostly ship . . . what will she find . . . who knows . . . a haunted something for the end of the world . . .
my fall series which I think I started back in 2013. Back then it was a small event that only ran in October but then it expanded sideways with people sending me links and my jewelry friend hunting down diamonded up Art Nouveau bats so it became two months. At the link below, if you’d like to see all the pictures of which there are around 24.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-13f
Oh to be here.
Thunderclouds starting to roll in. The sun still blazing away, at least if you don’t look towards the horizon.
My new short fiction piece with the rest at the link if you’d like to read it. Thanks! https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2015-and-ten-in-the
Oh to be here.
New Mexico and cattle lowing in the dark as far as the ear can hear or the eye can see. Being a ranch wife fascinating if you grew up somewhere else, with pine cones that bounce off your head while you wait for the school bus or ride your bike to the library.
my new short fiction piece at the link if you’d like to read the rest
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1940-and-ten-in-the
Boston Public Library Collections.
Part of my story is wrapped around a Coast Guard officer who brought live lobsters to potlucks at my mother’s church here in Boston. Other bits of it have imagery I remember from a few decades back when I had a chef friend who had grown up on his mother’s cattle ranch in East Texas.
A “Pageant of Democracy,” celebrating the history and promise of democracy across the globe, was performed in Woodland Park as part of Seattle’s 1920 Fourth of July celebrations held on Monday, July 5. The event was one of several put on by the Central Labor Council in Woodland Park that day. Nearly all of those taking part in the “Pageant of Democracy” were members of organized labor unions. One scene from the pageant depicted all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, dressed in wigs and colonial era dress; other scenes showed performers dressed as historical, allegorical and everyday figures related to the history of democracy, such as Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, an ancient Greek, and ordinary people of various cultures. Nineteen nationalities joined in the closing scene of the pageant, titled “World Democracy for All.”
Oh to be here.
Back to Illinois eventually, but hopefully not until it is too late to be snowed in. No way to know which day to get the tickets for. Two ex-husbands paying alimony. At least one looking to be heading off to prison soon, his alimony check-writing days going with him.
my new short fiction piece published to my Substack. Please click through the link to read the rest. The image is from a 1960 catalogue of jalousie windows put out by a Miami Florida company that made them.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1960-and-early-october
