Aurelia

In Aurelia, Mavor takes special interest in the fairy tale's gastronomy,including Alice's Wonderland cake marked EAT ME, the sugar of the witch'shouse in 'Hansel and Gretel' and the more disturbing ingestions of cannibalism,as in the Brothers Grimm's 'The Juniper Tree', where a murderedboy sings through the mouth of a bird: 'My mother she killed me. Myfather he ate me.'Moving beyond this, Mavor discovers the fairy-tale realm in more surprisingplaces: the tragic candy-land...
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In Aurelia, Mavor takes special interest in the fairy tale's gastronomy,including Alice's Wonderland cake marked EAT ME, the sugar of the witch'shouse in 'Hansel and Gretel' and the more disturbing ingestions of cannibalism,as in the Brothers Grimm's 'The Juniper Tree', where a murderedboy sings through the mouth of a bird: 'My mother she killed me. Myfather he ate me.'Moving beyond this, Mavor discovers the fairy-tale realm in more surprisingplaces: the tragic candy-land poetry of the 1950s 'genius' child-poetMinou Drouet; the subterranean world of enchantment in the cave paintingsof Lascaux; the brown fairies of African American poet LangstonHughes; and Miwa Yanagi's black-and-white, bloody photograph of theGrandmother and Little Red Riding Hood holding one another in the cutopen belly of the wolf, as an allegory of the victims of Hiroshima. Throughthe lens of the fairy tale Mavor reads the world of literature and art as bothmagical and political.