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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | Erin Vaganos is a painter and illustrator. Her biggest artistic influences are Golden Age illustrators (like Kay Nielsen, Arthur Rackham, and Harry Clarke), Northern Renaissance woodcuts and medieval herbals, Victorian ornament and Symbolism, and naturalist-painters (like John James Audubon, Ernst Haeckel, and Maria Sibylla Merian). |
| Interests | I love fossils, Ernst Haeckel and Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty and Antoni Gaudi and Maria Sibylla Merian and Albrecht Durer, spaghetti westerns and the film Adaptation and early Cronenberg flicks and B horror movies, bookplates, woodcuts and etchings, mushrooms and abyssal fish and carnivorous plants and dinosaurs, cosmology and ancient history, olives and chocolate, Gary Oldman and Sam Rockwell. |
| Favorite books | Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Skeletons on the Zahara, The Immense Journey, Jesus' Son, The Tao of Physics, Peter Pan, anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz, Stephen Jay Gould, E.O. Wilson, Things Fall Apart, W.B. Yeats, Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid's Tale, Simone de Beauvoir, Lolita, Isaac Babel, Swinburne, Albert Camus, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, R.M. Rilke |