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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Oct 15, 202215 min read
Vincent and I - a Timeline of a Lifetime of Light on Light and Lightness
From an early age, Vincent Van Goghian's exuberant yellows and explosive blues inspired me to write as he painted so very tenderly.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Feb 16, 202212 min read
"The Other Me"-- Clearing the Smoke Blurring Faced-Up Mirrors: See and Thus, Be Seen
I've been obsessed with doppelgängers, alter egos, liminal experiences, otherness. Giga Agladze's The Other Me embodies it all
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Nov 15, 20217 min read
The Fourth Gender: Imagery, Identification, and Imagination In the Virtual Experience
Today, cyberspace is a place where women, nonbinary folks and BIPOC can defy, undermine, and dispute traditional concepts of gender roles.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Nov 1, 20204 min read
MAP - The Making of Liam Whelan's Irish Lullaby. A Cartography of a Heritage.
Liam remembered the very first time that his Máthair Chríona sang the lullaby for him when he was a child, and an old ache squeezed his gut.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Oct 27, 202016 min read
Author Bill Clegg—Storytelling Sprinkled in Fairy Dust
A holistic look into author Bill Clegg’s literary works as interconnected ecosystems evincing his solid signature and sophisticated style.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Jan 26, 202017 min read
Sky-Diving Into Seas of Ink: Full Immersion in the Reading Experience
Vertical Reading it's a full immersion into a book's pages, where I swim beside the people in a world of liquid ink within an author's pages
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Oct 18, 20199 min read
The Making of "Realization": Merging Time, Place & Being Towards Resilience
Today, I find inspiration in the shape of a scar. I imagine that polka dots of blood can be read like musical notes spilling sounds.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 29, 20195 min read
Translating the Ineffable from the Liminalities of Otherness
Translation occurs in the immediacy of my bilingual mind. I'm a poet translating poetry, as poetry is written in its cathartic becoming.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 28, 20193 min read
“Ekphrasis of Cassandra’s Vow of Love.”
I had thought that uncertainty and despair were the gradients of my life before I’d known about this flower growing inside me.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 28, 20195 min read
“Lily’s Dance at The Spinoff”
She wore pink stilettos. Her steps towards the stage were sensual, following the cry of mating, the howling of Beck’s guitar.
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