Laura Joyce Laura Joyce

Haga, Haxan, Hag, Hawthorn

Cardinal earth: rapaciousness, growth, deep roots

Hedges, like lawns, are of no use to the witch unless they are overgrown, wild, and generative.

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Laura Joyce Laura Joyce

The Museum of Atheism

Mutable earth: wild foxes, psychedelic spores, deadly forests

On Christmas night, a small girl is crowned at a pageant, before stumbling into the snowy darkness, alone, to meet her greatest fan

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Laura Joyce Laura Joyce

Fungal Magic and Mycelial Networks

Mutable earth: mycelial networks, field notes, fungal categories

In The Museum of Atheism, each chapter begins with a description of the fungus that has taken over the town of Rosewood, where the action happens. These descriptions act as field notes about real and imagined fungal forms

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Laura Joyce Laura Joyce

Weird England

Fixed earth: ancient Norfolk flint, deep time, sacred herbs, soporific lettuces, and chilly beaches.

The landscape is dry in its lunar whiteness, with heaps of cracked inky flint in the pale wash of sky.

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