"Bucolic Crypt"
Poetry & Art Book by C. Lavender
Edition of 93 on Spectral Evidence
Release Date - May 9th 2018
"Bucolic Crypt" serves as a kind of anti-tourism book that delves into the life/death cycle of the Hudson Valley region of New York by exploring its darker sides through Transcendentalist and Romantic-era inspired poetry adjacent to a vast photography archive and drawings. Bucolic Crypt weaves a world where celestial Greek goddesses mingle with Rip Van Winkle and Helena Blavatsky with deer peering behind every corner waiting to jump out and bring everything to an abrupt end. As a compliment to the book, Bucolic Crypt also comes with a 23 minute soundtrack and six short films viewable on this page allow readers, listeners, viewers to further explore what it means to feel "trapped at the zenith of immense beauty and putrefaction."
The Bucolic Crypt Book Includes:
Unique Hand-cut & designed recycled brown leather covers, 26 Poems, 20 photographs taken between 2013-2018, 10 Drawings
Accessible via this page:
23 Minute Soundtrack, 6 Short Films
$26 includes postage in the US
$23 Local/no shipping
Shipping outside US - please contact for pricing
Poetry & Art Book by C. Lavender
Edition of 93 on Spectral Evidence
Release Date - May 9th 2018
"Bucolic Crypt" serves as a kind of anti-tourism book that delves into the life/death cycle of the Hudson Valley region of New York by exploring its darker sides through Transcendentalist and Romantic-era inspired poetry adjacent to a vast photography archive and drawings. Bucolic Crypt weaves a world where celestial Greek goddesses mingle with Rip Van Winkle and Helena Blavatsky with deer peering behind every corner waiting to jump out and bring everything to an abrupt end. As a compliment to the book, Bucolic Crypt also comes with a 23 minute soundtrack and six short films viewable on this page allow readers, listeners, viewers to further explore what it means to feel "trapped at the zenith of immense beauty and putrefaction."
The Bucolic Crypt Book Includes:
Unique Hand-cut & designed recycled brown leather covers, 26 Poems, 20 photographs taken between 2013-2018, 10 Drawings
Accessible via this page:
23 Minute Soundtrack, 6 Short Films
$26 includes postage in the US
$23 Local/no shipping
Shipping outside US - please contact for pricing
Soundtrack
Films
"Bucolic Crypt - Trailer"
A woman feels stalked by unknown forces until she finds a magical book and realizes she's not imagining things.
Filmed by Matthew Thurber & A. Ghost
A woman feels stalked by unknown forces until she finds a magical book and realizes she's not imagining things.
Filmed by Matthew Thurber & A. Ghost
"New Year Blue Moon"
Recorded January 30th 2018
Recorded January 30th 2018
"Keeping Millay's Grave Warm"
Clearing snow from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's gravesite in Austerlitz, NY
Clearing snow from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's gravesite in Austerlitz, NY
"A Magnificently Unwanted Gaze"
"Close Encounters"
Filmed in Sheffield, MA at the site of an alien abduction
Filmed in Sheffield, MA at the site of an alien abduction
"Rumination of the Forest"
Abstract ice skating choreography film to mourn the death of birch trees
Abstract ice skating choreography film to mourn the death of birch trees