Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts
Sunday, May 11, 2014
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."
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Geranium Lake Properties, shield
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
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.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Geranium Lake Properties, Oracle of the Buried
The Blues, Canto II
Three soil-living characters predict the end of mankind. Not as grim as it might seem. Trees, plants and wildlife celebrate.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Sunday, April 20, 2014
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