Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.