Tag: Paavan Agarwal
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Aliens!
by Paavan Agarwal My relationship with the concept of aliens began with seeing Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! on a hotel TV with my family late one night when I was seven and we were on vacation. There is a moment where a hippie releases a dove in celebration of the Martians declaring that they have…
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The Relationship of the Written Word and the Image
by Paavan Agarwal Sometimes when I sit down to write or to read something, I start thinking about the relationship between writing and images and get irresolutely stuck in that conceptual rabbit hole. How can or should one describe a sight or a vision using the written word? Ezra Pound called it “phanopoeia”, “the throwing…
