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Haunted Wires
IA4: Dreams & Echoes
Beachcomber
Mycomythopoeia
Cract!
Parsing Memory
World of Keepers
Time Odyssey
Museum of Imagined Futures
Distant Librarians
In Search of the Strange
Residue
The Pengguling Egg
this place [of mine]
Macabre Mail
Spook_bot

The Pengguling Egg

Now to her palm flew couriers – a raven, mudlark, tern and dove
And perched these erstwhile messengers upon tellurian shoulders, to murmur where she next must rove.

The Pengguling Egg is an invented poetic origin myth, commissioned for the GM Covid Commissions Archive.

I wrote and illustrated the piece in response to news items, a short online survey and personal stories shared with me during the covid lockdowns. The idea was to explore how our experiences become abstracted over time, taking on mythical proportions. How will this era, and our experiences of it, become transform over time into something akin to folklore?

While this is an invented tale, its themes, locations, characters and events are all inspired by very real experiences from the micro to the macro – home baking, abject loss, the simple restorative power of lying quietly in the grass. I combined these with imagery from ancient folklore and global origin myths, to create a kind of origin myth for the new, post-pandemic world that was emerging.

In the poem, ordinary, human things take on fantastical proportions. In a strange way, this is how I now experience those years looking back. It feels like a myth. A dream, somehow.

Alongside the poem, I also created a linoprint artwork in the style of the Azoth prints from the 1600s – I wanted to reference the notion of transformation, and the alchemical nature of this world and how we perceive it.

The limited edition lino print artwork is available to purchase in my Etsy store.