Eva Crocker
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Volatile Vulnerability in Pepa Chan’s Brush
Eva Crocker is a freelance writer and author of Barrelling Forward (House of Anansi, 2017). She is also a contributor to the non-fiction collection Best Kind, published in 2018 by...
The Garbage Poems and the Transformative Joy of Pond Swimming
Eva Crocker is a freelance writer and author of Barrelling Forward (House of Anansi, 2017). She is also a contributor to the non-fiction collection Best Kind, published in 2018 by...
Louise Moyes’ Long’s Hill: I Live(d) Here Reflects A Neighbourhood’s Strength and Beauty
Eva Crocker is a freelance writer and author of Barrelling Forward (House of Anansi, 2017). She is also a contributor to the non-fiction collection Best Kind, published in 2018 by...
Teresa Connors’ Immersive Audio-Visual Installation Currents at Sound Symposium XIX
Suddenly ripples started appearing on the large screen, like you see on the surface on of a pond at the beginning of a downpour. On two of the smaller screens the tide tugged unfurled waves back out into the bay; another showed mint-coloured lichen on a grey rock; a third played water gurgling in and out of a tide pool. I could feel the bunny-rabbit thump of blood coursing through my heart and it was correlating with the steady tick in the soundscape.
Costume Banks and Conjured Worlds
As we weave through the racks she tells me the history of specific pieces, like a donated Sherlock Holmes’ style cape and deerstalker hat that was worn during the Boer War. Each costume is a talisman for transformation and picking the right one can help summon a character, conjure a world.