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On the floor of an old house with cameras on the walls
As I left the house for a job this afternoon, I saw a package in our mailbox; I took it with me to open on the train. Actually I opened it while I was walking down the street, and then I immediately called ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel.
Inside were two copies of Viktor Koen's Bestiary: Bizarre Myths and Chimerical Fancies, edited by Ellen Datlow. This is the catalogue which accompanies Koen's exhibition of the same name, collecting the short prose and poetry of twenty-four authors each commissioned to write about one of the fabulous monsters of the bestiary. Contributors include Maria Dahvana Headley writing about Empousa, Theodora Goss on Medusa, Nathan Ballingrud on the Kraken, Anna Tambour on Satyrs, Michael Cisco on Erigone, Alisa Kwitney on Teiresias; it's the kind of table of contents I'm honored just to be part of. I'd never read any of the other pieces. I hadn't seen most of the prints. They're all really, really good.
I wrote about Argos Panoptes, described by Jack Ketchum in the Introduction as "the 'all-seeing eye,' his head a single mass of cameras, lenses, flashes, strobes. A jumbled, confused machine of modern sight." You can see him here if you click through to "Prints."
I have a signed print of him now, carefully included in the envelope. I will buy a frame tomorrow and hang him on my wall. He can watch from under glass as people look at him. It only seems fair.
Today has been a good day.
derspatchel.Inside were two copies of Viktor Koen's Bestiary: Bizarre Myths and Chimerical Fancies, edited by Ellen Datlow. This is the catalogue which accompanies Koen's exhibition of the same name, collecting the short prose and poetry of twenty-four authors each commissioned to write about one of the fabulous monsters of the bestiary. Contributors include Maria Dahvana Headley writing about Empousa, Theodora Goss on Medusa, Nathan Ballingrud on the Kraken, Anna Tambour on Satyrs, Michael Cisco on Erigone, Alisa Kwitney on Teiresias; it's the kind of table of contents I'm honored just to be part of. I'd never read any of the other pieces. I hadn't seen most of the prints. They're all really, really good.
I wrote about Argos Panoptes, described by Jack Ketchum in the Introduction as "the 'all-seeing eye,' his head a single mass of cameras, lenses, flashes, strobes. A jumbled, confused machine of modern sight." You can see him here if you click through to "Prints."
I have a signed print of him now, carefully included in the envelope. I will buy a frame tomorrow and hang him on my wall. He can watch from under glass as people look at him. It only seems fair.
Today has been a good day.
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I'm really happy about it! I've been showing it off to people all night.