Light asylum biography of nancy

Nancy Thompson

"I take back every bit of energy I ever gave you. You're nothing. You're shit."

- Nancy Thompson to Freddy Krueger, ^[1]

Nancy Thompson ( - ) was a native of Springwood, Ohio, who would encounter Freddy Krueger in , and would be the only one of her friends to survive. ^[1] Six years later, she would found the Dream Warriors to battle Freddy, a battle in which she would eventually die. ^[2]

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Freddy's Attack[]

The Asylum[]

Dream Warriors[]

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Antonin Artaud () is one of the greatest examples in art of the imaginative retrieval of a life that was beyond repair. What he ultimately accomplished should bear a torch through the dark nights of all our souls. Between and , Nancy Spero () engaged Artaud’s sufferings and resurrection in the creation of first The Artaud Paintings and then in The Codex Artaud. The Codex is a breakthrough work which enabled her to continually extend her imaginative range over the next three and a half decades. Here I would like to offer my sense of the fulgurating force that Nancy met in taking on Artaud’s writings and drawings, to address the mysterious Sheela-na-gig figures that she included in the s in her pantheon of feminine dynamics, and to conclude with an ode to Nancy in which I celebrate the extraordinary release involved in her body of work.

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While Artaud cannot be called a shaman, there is a shamanic matrix binding his life and work. This presence contribu

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