symbolism

Fenrir is frightening before he breaks anything. The gods know a prophecy about the growing wolf, and they act to […]

A life becomes a thread: something made, extended and eventually cut. The image makes an invisible duration almost tangible. We

An amulet makes a hope portable. Something small enough to hang from a cord or rest near a body can

A knot makes a small promise: this will hold. A woven cloth makes another: separate threads can become something that

I was a child when I first saw images of The Lady and the Unicorn in an old art history

Reynard can make a reader enjoy a performance that ought to be distrusted. The fox’s ingenuity is entertaining; the injuries

A fox crosses a dream road. A dog refuses to follow you. A snake sits in the kitchen doing nothing

The serpent in Eden can be made to stand for almost anything if we detach it from the text being

Blodeuwedd is made to solve somebody else’s problem. Math and Gwydion fashion a woman from flowers so that Lleu can