Dance Me to the End of Love Album: Careless Love Date: 2004 Genre: Jazz Artist: Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer and songwriter beginning her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris. She found mainstream success in 2004 with her album ‘Careless Love’
Isaac Albeniz Post-Romantic Born: 29 May 1860, Camprodon, Spain Nationality: Spanish Died: 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains, France
Albeniz was a virtuoso pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era and had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. Albeniz is best known for his piano works inspired by Spanish folk music
Eclipse of the Sunflower 1945 Surrealism Oil on canvas – British Council Collection
‘Eclipse of the Sunflower’ depicts two sunflowers, one lying dead and withered, and the other drifting high in the position of the sun. The sunflower in the sky is healthy yet about to be eclipsed as the flower head has become detached from the stem, suggesting the painting is a representation of looming death and the moment the soul leaves the body.
Paul Nash Surrealism Born: 11 May 1889, London, England Nationality: British Died: 11 July 1946, Bournemouth, England
Nash was a surrealist painter, war artist, photographer, writer, and designer of applied art. Among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the 20th century, Nash played an important role in the evolution of Modernism in English art
He’s gone. She can’t believe it, can’t go on. She’s going to give up painting. So she paints Her final canvas, total-turn-off Black. One long Obsidian goodbye. A charcoal-burner’s Smirnoff, The mirror of Loch Ness Reflecting the monster back to its own eye. But something’s wrong. Those mad Black-body particles don’t sing Her story of despair, the steel and Garnet spindle Of the storm. This black has everything its own sweet way, Where’s the I’d-like-to-kill-You conflict? Try once more, but this time add A curve to all that straight. And opposition White. She paints black first. A grindstone belly Hammering a smaller shape Beneath a snake Of in-betweening light. “I feel like this. I hope that you do, too, Black crater. Screw you. Kiss” And sees a voodoo flicker, where two worlds nearly touch And miss. That flash, where white Lets black get close, that dagger of not-quite contact, Catspaw panic, quiver on the wheat Field before thunder – There. That’s it. That’s her own self, in paint, Splitting what she was from what she is. As if everything that separates, unites
Ruth Padel Born: 8 May 1946, London, UK Nationality: British
Padel is a poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer. She is best-known for her poetic explorations of migration, both animal and human, and her involvement in classical music, wildlife conservation, and Greece, ancient and modern
My transitional journey may well be complete, but today I make myself visible. It was a long journey, more like a rollercoaster ride on acid to be fair with all the ups and downs of living an alternative life.
Now, through personal choice, I live most of my life ‘stealth,’ I’m just another middle-aged bloke – nothing special just another guy, which is how it should have been all along. By choice I am stealth, but today I am visible so others who are on that transitional journey or wanting to start it know they are not alone. especially trans men
Being a transgender man seems such a lonely place in and out of the community. Believe me, guys you are not alone, You will make it.