"I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist." --
Leonora Carrington, 1983
Now that my blog rhythm is returning, I am continuing to ease back into writing by falling back on the yahoo writer's prompts. Sundays are Art Sundays, a chance for me to delve into the visual arts and visit inspirations new and old.
My natural medium is writing, so my natural thought patterns lean to metaphor and simile and finding the points of commonality and uncommonality between me and my subject. To find irony or magic is a bonus. It may be somewhat natural then that I find myself intrigued by the surrealists, the visual counterpoints steeped in symbols and meaning.
I intended to blog on Frida Kahlo, a particular favorite female artist whose self-portraits are imaginative, colorful and above all symbolic. Instead, I stumbled on Carrington.
