I'm as mysterious to myself as I am mysterious to others

[sovay]

Leonora Carrington. I had just been pleasantly surprised to discover she was still alive and painting!

time_shark, write her a muse, even if it was herself.

Sometime I shall find out why I stayed so long here, while I am happily contemplating reindeer and snow, cherry trees, meadows, the song of the thrush.
—Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet (1976)

Comments

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Oh!! I didn't know she was still alive. This is fabulous - I love her art.

ETA: It's not fabulous that she died, obviously, but that she lived this long. I need to stop commenting while tired.

[sovay]

It's not fabulous that she died, obviously, but that she lived this long. I need to stop commenting while tired.

Is okay. It is wonderful that she was still alive: I was so happy to hear from Jeff VanderMeer at the beginning of this month that she was holding a new show.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Damn. But what a life! What art!

"The Carringtons, anxious about their daughter's wanderings across war-torn Europe, took the exotic step of sending her nanny to Spain in a submarine...."

Nine

[sovay]

"The Carringtons, anxious about their daughter's wanderings across war-torn Europe, took the exotic step of sending her nanny to Spain in a submarine...."

The obituarist—a relative—wrote a very neat article about her in 2007.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Cool! Many thanks.

Nine

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I shall now go forth and learn about her stuff. Right after I hunt down and kill whosoever ordered this heat.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ghastly, isn't it?

Nine

[sovay]

I shall now go forth and learn about her stuff.

She was lovely.

Right after I hunt down and kill whosoever ordered this heat.

I support your mission of vengeance.

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

As you wish!

[sovay]

As you wish!

Sweet!

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

It may take me a little bit to get to it....

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Fascinating story. I wish I'd heard of her sooner. Thank you for sharing.

[sovay]

I wish I'd heard of her sooner. Thank you for sharing.

You're welcome. Her art is still alive.

[ristrettoette.livejournal.com]

Leonora Carrington was the best... her existence was tremendously affirming to me. I had thought she was dead already, she seemed so much to belong to another age...

Unrelatedly, I have to thank you for something in which you actually had no complicity-- I stumbled upon Not One of Us through your journal, and have just settled one of my stranger stories there, which is very exciting.

[sovay]

I had thought she was dead already, she seemed so much to belong to another age...

I had that happen with Christopher Fry. It isn't even that he was younger than I'd thought, because he was born in 1907; he was just very long-lived, so that when he died in 2005, I'd been assuming him dead for about thirty years.

I stumbled upon Not One of Us through your journal, and have just settled one of my stranger stories there, which is very exciting.

Congratulations! I look forward to reading it.