Marx ZauberMantel
WRITING
SKATER GIRL: An Archaeology of the Self
To be Published by Guernica Editions, 2024
Episodic and non-chronological, experimental and intensely personal, these essays mirror the haphazard, gap-filled nature of reality.
Stories of childhood, of coming of age as a girl in the 1950s, of so-called mental illness; reflections on art, spirituality, social justice. A rich compendium of a life deeply lived; pain and loss and humour admixed.
"My essays are an archeology of the self, sifting through the midden of consciousness to find shells, potsherds, a broken piece of mirror."

Some of the SKATER GIRL essays:
-
Running an extortion racket at eight at the Kerrisdale Arena
-
My mother’s near fatal stroke; my near fatal car accident.
-
Being a Marxist feminist with a capitalist father who routinely sexually harassed his female employees
-
Why Mark Rothko’s paintings make me cry.
-
How I didn’t become a Maoist.
-
When words transformed into 3D objects, launching my artistic career.