Thursday, 21 April 2016

The reading stopped mid paragraph at, “In the sunny patches one might easily have cooked on a stone a batch of those buns with Corinth fruit in them that Periplipomenes sells in his booth near the bridge” (14.1149).

The watercolour Catherine sends in for this blog depicts a scene read earlier, though (the previous week). Here's what she writes about it:

The passage in gothic style with some impressive sentences such as “the spider pitches her web in the solitude” and “the nocturnal rat peers from his hole” had inspired my imagination (14.1034–37).

I have put the scene on the stage with buck mulligan reciting the gothic story, Haines with a portfolio of Celtic literature in one hand and, in the other, a phial marked “poison”. The black panther is with Haines as a ghost who reminds him of the killing of Samuel Childs.

I chose a thick paper, which allowed me to work with watercolour, gouache, coal and drawing ink. I also used brushes, pens and a sponge. The rest was some imagination and a steady hand.

© Catherine Meyer, Zürich 2016