something i did today...


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Painting with needles
i have been in this 
condition
before 
back then
when

curiosity 
butchered
the cat 
and left claw 
marks in her wake

today--
faint
inarticulate
scrawls
on skin

This time--
i lack the control
of the child petrified
alone

methodically incising
words
screaming
meaning
across her consciousness

this time i am subject
i am canvas
i am prey to puppet master
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my twin sister and i decided to get inked before she left for overseas. Tattooing was something i've always wanted to experience no doubt owing to my personal  (and somewhat cliched) aphorism that we "only live once" ( so, therefore- why not do as many stupid things you can before you cark it?) . Or, perhaps it was the simply the allure of  ( Read more... )

This weeks target for my peer review is Gab's  (
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Hamlet: The ensemble Theatre 18th April...
This production was amazing... 
here was the raw and confronting power of Shakespeare's written word alive and at full force
the bare stage actually enhanced this and inetnsified the characters, their movements, thoughts and words 
i could feel energy humming all around the room, radiating from the cast who ( Read more... )

"Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant... my touchstone."

when i first read Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 i immediately thought of that quote from an TV show that i used to be obsessed with.

This was definately the first piece of writing from old Shakey that i understood straight away---it is more simplisitically written, without ( Read more... )

 
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so my last entry  i was trying to share my thoughts on King Lear but my head was only inches off the keyboard owing to my severe sleep deprivation over the last few days. Anyway, so we watched two different adaptations of King Lear in our lecture this week and i must say, the James Earl Jones version, which was actually a stage production that was ( Read more... )

i read King Lear in year 12 all those years ago and it was the first Shakespeare that i really understood, particularly in terms of themes and symbolism. For some reason the Lear/storm scene is my favourite out of the entire play. It must be because when i read it the first time i was kind of in a pretty dark place, and although the reasons for me ( Read more... )

This time i looked beyond the realm of my fellow Uni students and in doing so came across
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