#dracula errata

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Was just reading the Sherlock Holmes story "The Final Problem" - and to escape some tenacious henchmen hot on their trail - Sherlock has Watson take a very specific coach "driven by a fellow wearing a heavy black cloak"

This Coach Driver is later revealed to be none other than Sherlock's brother in disguise

This story was first published in 1893

Bram Stoker was outlining, drafting, writing, & rewriting Dracula between 1890 and 1897

Dracula as Thinly Disguised Coach Driver is inspired by Sherlock Holmes

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

So, I totally need to offer some corrections here. I was working on the assumption that the novel Dracula takes place sometime in like, the mid-1880s but it seems like the agreement is more like 1890-1893?Alexander Mackenzie hits his creative stride right in the mid-late 1880s so by the time Mina gets to hear him in the early 1890s he's already solidly established himself as a composer. And to clarify further, he did compose pieces before the 1880s, but in the 1880s he finally decided to drop teaching to save his sanity and his health and seriously devote his time to composition.

The little throwaway line a few days ago about Mina and Lucy listening to some stuff by Louis Spohr always gets a bit of a head tilt from me when it comes around, because Spohr is a contemporary of Beethoven, thus two or three generations before before Mina and Lucy's time. He was more popular than Beethoven when they were both alive, and I do not know exactly when in history his star gets eclipsed by Beethoven's, but my general impression was that he kinda fell off the popularity wagon pretty quickly after his death. For reference, Beethoven dies in 1827, and Spohr dies in 1859. So that's all decades before the events of Dracula. My first thought is that if anyone was gonna keep the flame burning for Spohr it was probably the violinists who wanted to keep playing his concertos, so maybe that's what Mina and Lucy got to hear.

Speaking of violinists, the 1880s are when Alexander Mackenzie makes the transition from violinist and conductor to composer, so whichever pieces of his Lucy and Mina heard, they were some of his very first.

[k00286654]

Artist Research and Experimentation

(25th January 2023)

Alongside Gothic Architecture, I have also been looking to take inspiration from literature and poetry. I scanned in pages from my books at home, works that may be considered Gothic, ranging from Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven'.

I have been looking into artists that use book pages as their canvas.

Ekaterina Panikanova

in ‘Errata Corrige’ Panikanova attempts to visually rewrite the innermost stories of the human psyche by directly intervening on the pages of open books. Arranging old books, notebooks and prints from different eras into an irregular grid, Panikanova puts together an unconventional oversized canvas of interrupted surfaces. Laid out in groups, the books resemble pieces of a puzzle that appear to be interchangeable yet heavily reliant on one another, very much like the experiences and memories that collectively piece together a lifetime.

Cathy Cullis

Cullis is a mixed media artist. Her heavily embroidered pieces on book pages intrigued me greatly. Her style is distinctive and often defies categorization, and she’s been influenced by “an eclectic bric-a-brac of art and artists and things” that she’s loved over the years, including Eastern European animation from the 1970s, American folk art, outsider art, Medieval churches, shapes in nature, and child art.

[vadaviaaiciap]

Mascherine terminate.

Amuchina finita.

Alcool esaurito.

Guanti di gomma introvabili.

Ma non c'è da allarmarsi, dice il Conte (dracula?)...

Il coronavirus è come l'invasione: solo una percezione errata.