This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. Maybe you have seen this image: five outlines of a head (turned sideways in profile), each holding (in its mind’s eye) one of four images of apples stamped (from left to right) in decreasing order of detail, except for the last head, which is empty. This is an image of images, an image about how imagination works. At its most basic level, imagination is image visualization. When you think of an apple, what do you see? In The Love Witch (2016), witchcraft looks a lot like imagination—energy concentrated […]
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