Category Archives: Books

Whatever Happened to Pitty Sing?

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Sometimes in the morning, on our terrace surrounded by plants and bees and butterflies, I look at our sleeping cat, Volver, and feel as if I am in a tableau vivant. Frida Kahlo lived in a tableau vivant of her … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Narratives, Books, Volver the cat | Tagged Andre Breton, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, cats, female gothic, Flannery O’Connor, Frida Kahlo, La Sussurrata, Mexico, paintings, Paros, Pitty Sing, short stories, Southern Gothic, surrealism, tableau vivant, terrace life, Victorian Gothic, Volver the cat, women’s art | 6 Comments

Our House

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Last night I woke up hearing noises. Were they real or just residues of a dream? Not knowing, I decided to read and pulled out a book of short stories by Maeve Brennan that I hadn’t finished reading. And after … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Narratives, Books, Volver the cat | Tagged cats, Crosby Stills & Nash, Family Walls, Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell, La Sussurata, Maeve Brennan, Our House, Paros, short stories, terrace life, The Springs of Affection, Volver the cat | Leave a comment

Centered

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Many years ago I participated in a Parian exhibition based on mythology. Using recycled materials, I made the above painting about Omphale and Hercules. The text is rewritten below: Ομφαλός. Hercules’ first home was his mother’s body. But once the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Narratives, Books, People | Tagged Connie, Delphi, Hercules, Joan Didion, Omphale, Omphlos, Rhea, the Center, W. B. Yeats | Leave a comment

Ways of Knowing

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Leonard Shlain’s The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image is a fascinating read about how writing reconfigured the human brain. Shlain says that preliterate agricultural cultures venerating female values used mainly the right half of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, female consciousness, Paros | Tagged interconnecting, Ζωοδόχου Πηγής, Leonard Shlain, sharing, Sumerians, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Virgina Woolf, ways of knowing, writing | 2 Comments

Ways of Being

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Our world is crumbling around us. Decadence and Dissonance are in command. I no longer feel compatible with the world around me. Nevertheless, the world belongs to me as much as it does to anyone else and I have no … Continue reading →