caroline contillo

In his 1928 novel “Nadja,” André Breton cites an old French adage: “Tell me whom you haunt” - whom you befriend - “and I’ll tell you who you are.” Judged by this criterion, the English heiress Nancy Cunard, who “haunted” Breton’s Surrealists and countless other artists besides, is one of the biggest stars you’ve never [...]

in an effort to update more, i will be doing a Lady of the Day post.

Solita Solano was born in New England in 1888. Both in youth and maturity she was strong-willed, inquisitive, and independent. Expressing her dislike for educational systems and her love of travel early in life, she spent three years in the [...]

I’ve always been fascinated with art made by non-artists. Dance is a particularly compelling one. This project where scientists competed to dance their theses is pretty awesome. videos are found at the link below.
The 2009 AAAS/Science Dance Contest

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West St. Art, originally uploaded by ccontill.

Silkwood
The cliff house
Vacillations
all the songs i don’t know
Villa la roche
Red apple rest
Little teapot dome
Destroy this memory

Snow in Ridgewood, originally uploaded by ccontill.
After traps tangle, slip, hold buoys.
The pale perched plumb bobs, heart throbs,
Black Adirondack china soap dishes in the ceiling.
Thought it walked upon faded
blue glass and Claire was a warehouse.
The barn with an irregular curving fracture
and only a small limestone gargoyle, smooth and sinister.
She’d always lived in a field like [...]

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Greenpoint, originally uploaded by ccontill.

i go between talking to my twenty shoes
plenty clues clutching a bunch of meaningless slights
The brights , brass and pressed milk glass
In the gloaming arcade of homes and orange highways
she was [...]

When I was a wee child with dirt on my face from playing in the creek behind our house all day, there was a magical place called Tice’s Farm. It sat on a hilltop, just a stone’s throw away from where I grew up. It was a homestead from out of time, hemmed in by [...]

I just discovered the strange and beautiful collage work of nicole natri. her website is well worth a visit.

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