Atomic testing Pacific 1946, from film,Tate London 2025 

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Revista Procedamente ESP, Selected Painting, Film, https://www.revista-fanzineprocedimentum.com/pdf/procedimentum%20numero%2015/3.%20cecelia%20chapman.pdf

UnlikelyStories USA, Midnight in Zamora, Peoples Laws

https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/peoples-laws-and-midnight-in-zamorra

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Interalia Magazine, MauMau Blood Dreams project in Emerging Ideas 2026

Arteidolia Press NY Anthology, Postcards SummerMail2020 

Black Winter 3, 2026 postcard

MauMau Blood Dreams 2025 rewrites folklore narrative for an uncertain future. 

I found old Portuguese folktales at a government website by accident. They are shocking, brutal stories. Soon after I became aware of the tattooed rocks in Valença, Portugal, near where I lived. The designs carved in rock are the first stories, about animals, events, hunters and warriors. The rock art became Bronze Age word of mouth folktales. Rewritten in the 17th century for sophisticated audiences, fairytales always have happy endings.

Excerpt MauMau Blood Dreams 2026. Here, one of 8 collage postcards, found artifact, photography.

Alexander Kluge, "Human beings are not interested in reality. They can't be; it's the human essence. They have wishes. These wishes are strictly opposed to any ugly form of reality. They prefer to lie than to become divorced from their wishes..."

An eleventh-century monk wrote in his guide-book for religious pilgrims that first-century Romans trained their armies precisely where I live, and in Galicia. He is an exceptionally gossipy monk, and adds that the armies were deeply disturbed here. The white-haired locals, the mists and fog, rain, winds, the cold sea, and strong currents. But mostly the women they called ‘witches’ completely freaked them out. Caesar arrived to inspect his armies and left immediately....

Excerpt, Midnight In Zamora 2026, Portugal. 

I live in the lettuce growing industry world capital of the Iberian west coast. Behind the Navais beach golf course is a dirt-road labyrinth of vinyl-covered half-dome grow houses. It is a BuckminsterFullerian dystopic hallucination filled with lettuce in shocking colors of chlorophyll.

Who is all this lettuce for?

Bugs Bunny knows.

And so rabbit hunters and dogs run the roads and fields on weekends.

Excerpt, Yet To Come, Portugal, Iberian Winter 2026