AVC/8 - Objects
Reference code
AVC/8
Level of description
Series
Title
Objects
Date/s
1955
[19---2022?]
[19---2022?]
Quantity & Format
1 box; 10 items Artefacts
Scope and content
Contains objects of significance to AVC which provided comfort or inspiration generally as well as to their creative writing.
- ‘The Bedtime Book of 365 Stories’ by Kathryn Jackson. Pictures by Richard Scarry. Hamlyn: London, 1955. (Note by AVC: “My favourite childhood book, with illustrations that inspired me to think of word and picture together (especially the ‘Balloon Man story’) [p.122]).”
- Crayons for colourizing texts in notebooks, a meditative and analytical technique AVC increasingly uses (AVC note: “see pukka pad [AVC/6/5] with colourized pages, made at Gemma Robinson and Rowan Cruft’s house in Dunblane, for thinking through a kiskadee bird poem; but those were different crayons”).
- Brass statue of the Hindu god Krishna as a baby. Family heiroom. Age and provenance unknown. Colour and other symbolism from the Hindu pantheon informs some of AVC’s work.
- Stone from a coastal location, to think with while drafting ‘Venus as a Bear’.
- Hot pink fuzzy keyring. AVC likes fuzzy things, and hot pink. This was on AVC’s bedside table, as a comfort.
- Gold-plated figurine of the Norse god Thor; contained in wooden box. A gift in Iceland, from Sveinn Haraldsson. (Note by AVC: “Friendship with Sveinn Haraldsson and his family, including his late husband, Pétur Guðmundsson, was very important and led to Icelandic landscapes, objects, and concepts informing all my books).”
- Opium pipe (allegedly functional). A gift in New York, from Sveinn Haraldsson, when AVC visited to read at the ‘Trinidad Noir’ book launch.
- Protective reindeer spirit figure. A gift from Sveinn Haraldsson.
- A flyer showing the dog with a blazing torch in its mouth that symbolizes the Dominican Order. AVC often thinks about versions of this symbol.
- Badge showing a picture of a chicken and the text: 'this is not a chicken poem'.
See AVC/7/2 for a fan decorated under supervision of Hitoyoshi high school students, during the Japan tour organized by Dr Rina Kikuchi (2018).
- ‘The Bedtime Book of 365 Stories’ by Kathryn Jackson. Pictures by Richard Scarry. Hamlyn: London, 1955. (Note by AVC: “My favourite childhood book, with illustrations that inspired me to think of word and picture together (especially the ‘Balloon Man story’) [p.122]).”
- Crayons for colourizing texts in notebooks, a meditative and analytical technique AVC increasingly uses (AVC note: “see pukka pad [AVC/6/5] with colourized pages, made at Gemma Robinson and Rowan Cruft’s house in Dunblane, for thinking through a kiskadee bird poem; but those were different crayons”).
- Brass statue of the Hindu god Krishna as a baby. Family heiroom. Age and provenance unknown. Colour and other symbolism from the Hindu pantheon informs some of AVC’s work.
- Stone from a coastal location, to think with while drafting ‘Venus as a Bear’.
- Hot pink fuzzy keyring. AVC likes fuzzy things, and hot pink. This was on AVC’s bedside table, as a comfort.
- Gold-plated figurine of the Norse god Thor; contained in wooden box. A gift in Iceland, from Sveinn Haraldsson. (Note by AVC: “Friendship with Sveinn Haraldsson and his family, including his late husband, Pétur Guðmundsson, was very important and led to Icelandic landscapes, objects, and concepts informing all my books).”
- Opium pipe (allegedly functional). A gift in New York, from Sveinn Haraldsson, when AVC visited to read at the ‘Trinidad Noir’ book launch.
- Protective reindeer spirit figure. A gift from Sveinn Haraldsson.
- A flyer showing the dog with a blazing torch in its mouth that symbolizes the Dominican Order. AVC often thinks about versions of this symbol.
- Badge showing a picture of a chicken and the text: 'this is not a chicken poem'.
See AVC/7/2 for a fan decorated under supervision of Hitoyoshi high school students, during the Japan tour organized by Dr Rina Kikuchi (2018).
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