Ma Didoes
While it may not be a conscious thing - like any artistically inclined person - I find myself drawn to some particular narratives more so than others.
Be it due to my Scottish upbringing, the fables and tales I was told in my youth, or something completely different...
These are the stories I like to tell!
While I may not have a niche to which I have to play to quite yet, the bulk of my work tends to revolve on themes of...
- the relationships of the oppressed to the oppressor, and vice versa.
- the voices of rural or nomadic communities.
- the nature of the postcolonial; within art, politics, and society.
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However, I will hold myself accountable for my biased love of classic adventure storytelling in tales such as 'Treasure Island', 'Uncharted: Drakes Fortune', and 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark'.
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'Both Thorns and Thistles Grow'
"cursed is the ground for thy sake..."
(Genesis 3:17)
(Genesis 3:17)
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'Lilies of the Field'
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow" (Matthew 63:04)
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'The Waste Land' (T.S. Eliot) // 'Le Cygne' (Charles Baudelaire)
‘To find to what extend did
Eliot make use of the texts, techniques
and ideas of French symbolism in The
Waste Land?'
Eliot make use of the texts, techniques
and ideas of French symbolism in The
Waste Land?'
Perhaps due to my more rural upbringing in the East-Neuk of Fife - a coastal county in Scotland - I've always been enraptured by the relationship between religion and the community.
While I'm yet to pull at this thematic thread quite, yet in poetic or interactive form, I have leaned into it within some of my academic work.
So; while I'm not being distracted by watching 'Midnight Mass', and 'The Wickerman', or playing 'Darkwood' and 'Blair Witch'; I'll be seeing just where this string leads...