Geranium Lake Properties, ancient airs and dances

The Blues, Canto XIV, "The Dreaming Weeds (Farewell to the Garden)"

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Geranium Lake Properties, no more apricots

The Blues, Canto XIII, "A Thin Rose Cry"
Part 1: The Departure of the Bees
Part 2: The Flowers Lament


GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Geranium Lake Properties, among the ruins

The Blues, Canto XII, "The Far, Straight Gyre "
Part 1: The Herb Knot
Part 2: The Broken Fountain

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Geranium Lake Properties, heart to heartwood

The Blues, Canto XI, "The Conversation"

Oriol speaks with Undfenquathodem, the oldest living being, in the Garden at the End of the World.

The living world
has been waiting
for man to learn
again
the natural language.

Humans have been
too busy,
too clever,
inventing countless
artifical languages.

Here
is the first man,
the last man,
who remembers
how to talk to life.

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday.

Geranium Lake Properties, under saroun

The Blues, Canto X, "The Garden at the End of the World"

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday. And occasionally Tuesday. Currently we are hijacked by the asemic opera called The Blues. Please imagine incomprehensible (but soaring) arias, utterly fantastical costumes worn by fat people, and weird music not at all similar to Phillip Glass.

Geranium Lake Properties, oldest living thing in new york

The Blues, Canto IX, "Gone Half Where, Gone Half Here"

Oriol meets a most ancient being.

GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday. And occasionally Tuesday.

Geranium Lake Properties, strenuous books blocked in cairns (part 2)

The Blues, Canto VIII, "The Six Interpretations"

Geranium Lake Properties, strenuous books blocked in cairns

The Blues, Canto VIII, "The Six Interpretations"

Geranium Lake Properties, all the fish love Chachi

The Blues, Canto VII, "Una carta dirigida al Presidente"

This series was initially a series of four or five panels, but as the images evolved into more panels, I realized I was making something that was becoming a little more epic. It seemed to me that I was illustrating an asemic opera called The Blues.

In this scene, Canto VII, Oriol replies to a request from the President of the Last Empire. Oriol is the person asemically represented by this panel. He is the author of the Last Book. The President has asked Oriol to adapt his book into a tube video. People can no longer can read written words, alphabets have become asemic. (The old books were recycled for toilet paper, Halloween masks and building materials like insulation.) In a letter (depicted here)the President cannot hope to read, Oriol politely declines.

Later, after his death, Oriol's daughter Yukosha will interpret the first line of the Last Book as: "Bahtnatchu feynd Min Veyshveysh ar8888ra ep88pe tem888met ast888erik gulp888plug tcha8ahct tcha88ahct noo88oon sci888ics ops8888spo." Or, on special occasions: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the end of times, so long, and thanks for all the fish, love, Chachi."

Geranium Lake Properties, Bahtnatchu feynd Min Veyshveysh

The Blues, Canto VI, "The Last Book"

Geranium Lake Properties, shield

The Blues, Canto V, "The Last Empire"

Geranium Lake Properties, curious shaker

The Blues, Canto IV, "Curious Shaker"

A child is born, his parents name him Moss. When he is eight years old, he discovers that he understands the languages of the earth. He calls himself Tiomquo Uvugrottuy, which he cannot translate into the languages of men. Most people call him Yellowjacket, Oriol, or the Man Who Speaks to Trees.