Geranium Lake Properties, wind chasing moon

The Blues, Final Movement, Canto XXV "World Without Penitence"

Sometimes performed as the Overture. Image can be the back cover of The Last Book.

Geranium Lake Properties, gray area

The Blues, Finale, Canto XXIV "Advent of the Endless Winter"

Geranium Lake Properties, it's the end of the world as we know it

The Blues, Finale, Canto XXIII "The Death of Undfenquathodem"

Geranium Lake Properties, elusive fields

The Blues, Finale, Canto XXII "Life Calls to Life"

Oriol begs Undfenquathodem, the oldest living being, to try one more time to summon the citizens of the Last Empire to join the living world. No one hears the call.

These images were created from a photograph (© Laura J. Wellner, used by permission) found on this tumblr, which hosts many stunning images made by a talented artist with original vision, and an amazing eye for detail.

Geranium Lake Properties, gone to voltage

The Blues, Canto XXI, "Devastation"

Life everywhere flees from Oriol's expression of guilt and despair, terrible emotions
that belong only to Man.

Geranium Lake Properties, no direction home

The Blues, Canto XIX, "The Insanity of Trees"
The Blues, Canto XX, "Wolves Betrayed"

I took a little vacation from the internet, but usually GLP is an online cartoon published every Thursday and Sunday, and occasionally Tuesday. For the next 2 months my schedule might become erratic as I devote some extra time to family matters.

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Geranium Lake Properties, dusky granada

The Blues, Canto XVIII, "Testimony of the Moths"

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." Alice Walker

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

Geranium Lake Properties, pastorale with ensuite bathroom

The Blues, Interlude, "The Aesthetic Dream"

Oriol dreams of a world where no living thing exists, where man lives only in his art and technology. This piece is sometimes performed between the Garden and the Testimonies.

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

Geranium Lake Properties, octagonal zen gavotte

The Blues, Canto XVII, "The Testimony of the Spider Queen"

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

Geranium Lake Properties, the first and last trillion

The Blues, Canto XVI, "The Testimony of the Cyanobacteria"

Also called "The Song of Departures" or "The List of Extinction". Sometimes it is sung at the end of the Testimonies.

A note about art and the modern experience: Since my computer expired in April I have been using an old laptop, and all my images have been created with MS Paint. The Blues, An Asemic Opera has been made entirely on MS Paint. In fact, this project would never have come into being if my computer had not broken down.

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

Geranium Lake Properties, a walk on the beach

The Blues, Canto XV, "The Testimony of the Earth and Sea"

Oriol asks for a way mankind can escape their fate foretold in the Oracle of the Buried.

The heart of the planet
is made of iron
and knows nothing of life.
It speaks through fire
and pools of magma.
Sometimes it laughs
at its own unknowable jokes,
erupting in volcanoes
and earthquakes.

The sea is full of life,
it speaks through the hearts
and lungs of whales.
It sings love songs to men
and is spurned with spears
and poison.


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

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."