I ran into her work in a roundabout way: I was scratching my head over the credits in an early Mekas film thinking: Emshwiller? What’s an Emshwiller? A bit of Googling and, oh, wait, I know that science fiction art, who doesn’t it?, but, hmmmm, he made movies? Weird, well, okay, and he filmed Dylan. Then, the only movie I could track down by Ed Emshwiller featured, hmmmm, his wife, Carol. Another artist? An actress? Maybe. Wait, there’s a Carol Emshiller listed in the NYPL and, hey, this book by her, The Mount, is available as a ebook. Yes, please, I’d like a copy. Zing! Hmmmm, is there more? The Mount was published recently and yet she must be nearly 100 . . . all of which caught my attention so I tracked down what I could find and she’s been a fave ever since. The only thing I don’t like about her work is that I didn’t know about it thirty years ago.
