Week 51-22 - Curiosities

Happy Holidays!

Switching things up this week with only five favorites from the past week!

SHORT STORY

Isabel Greenberg pens a super fun little graphic short about what happens when Charon falls in love and shirks his duty in The River of Lost Souls.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2013/mar/17/river-lost-souls-isabel-greenberg-graphic-short-story

ART

Inka Essenhigh (USA) has been a favorite of mine for many years.
https://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/23-inka-essenhigh/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inka_Essenhigh

Hernan Bas (USA) paintings are a visual delight.
https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Hernan_Bas/56#images
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernan_Bas

POETRY

We Chicagoans love our city… and Jose Olivarez writes a love letter of sorts…wherever i'm at that land is Chicago.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/151519/wherever-im-at-that-land-is-chicago

MUSIC

Lachlan Skipworth’s Pine Chant sets the science of dendrochronology to music, and it’s quite wonderful. Read more about the track’s background first, then listen to the piece with headphones!
https://lachlanskipworth.bandcamp.com/track/pine-chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOcRtZ9bd4