Hey, I’m Elle. I’m not a huge fan of modern social media, but I’ve liked the idea of having a personal website since I was a kid. I used to spend a lot of time lurking on lurid red and black blogs dedicated to the paranormal, as part of my ‘research’ into my local hauntings, and now I AM that blog!
I enjoy art of every kind imaginable. I think it takes a subjective, esoteric medium to express subjective and esoteric experiences. Personally, I write, paint, and play double/ electric bass. I’m also a circus performer and I actually really like weightlifting, even though I feel like a tool writing that. I'm fascinated by ancient history and Catholic history/ theory, so I may create some blog posts on my thoughts and interpretations of that.
My favorite things:
Music: Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, Hozier, Creepy Crowley, Franz Ferdinand, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Fields of the Nephilim, Bauhaus, Possessed, Rainbow, Star Industry, My Chemical Romance, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, Giovanni Bottesini, Dmitri Shostakovich
Books, Movies, and TV: Orange World by Karen Russell, Melmoth by Sarah Perry, Residencia en la Tierra by Pablo Neruda, Double Indemnity (1944), Viy (1967), In the Mood for Love (2000), Cats 2 (2023), Twin Peaks
This site is a place for me to house my visual and literary art, as well as fun miscellaneous stuff. In terms of writing and painting, I’m interested in portraying themes of purity, masculinity, religion, and humanity’s search for meaning and morality in an often senseless, violent natural world. (Sorry for the weird pretentious wording- years of AP rubrics and scholarship applications have ruined my vernacular.) On the personal side, I plan on posting excerpts from my dream journal, blog/ article type stuff, and photos of projects or abandoned buildings or other cool things in my life. Why is it a cave? First of all, bats! Vampires! Weird creepy fish with no eyes! Also, I just love cave paintings and the idea that we can connect to ancient humans through art.