Elegía Joseph Cornell

This text records a discovery by María Negroni: the films of Joseph Cornell, an assemblage artist close to Surrealism who also cultivated film collage with a lyrical-documentary style, whose ability to catalog the unusual fascinated the poet. Halfway between a calligrammatic poetry collection and an artist's book, this little gem reads like the intimate diary of an observer following the trail of an image, "that of a little girl passing by naked, riding a white horse, her hair covering her, as if she were a tiny—and disturbing—version of Lady Godiva."