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A review by aurorepersy
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
5.0
“A personal mythology recurs in my writing, much the same way poppy wreaths have crept into my films. For me this archeology has become obsessive, for the ‘experts’ my sexuality is a confusion. All received information should make us inverts sad. But before I finish I intend to celebrate our corner of Paradise, the part of the garden the Lord forgot to mention.”
A new favorite. Intensely beautiful, poetic, and fragile, yet deeply imbued with the sense of going forward and will to *exist*.
Both a private and political witness to being gay and HIV+ in 1990s England, that still resonates today. However it is also gorgeous prose on flowers, nature, natural spaces and their cultural associations, as well as on art and the role of the artist in the (cultural/political) environment.
Will definitely re-read!
A new favorite. Intensely beautiful, poetic, and fragile, yet deeply imbued with the sense of going forward and will to *exist*.
Both a private and political witness to being gay and HIV+ in 1990s England, that still resonates today. However it is also gorgeous prose on flowers, nature, natural spaces and their cultural associations, as well as on art and the role of the artist in the (cultural/political) environment.
Will definitely re-read!