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"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee
A quick announcement: If you are in the San Francisco East Bay, today (October 5th) there’s a reception at the Orinda Library for “Stories We Tell,” an exhibit on narrative art - I’ve got some Brainwaves and Sloth and Manatee in there and will be there with signed books for sale! Yes Yes! 2pm to 4pm. Hooray!
Sloth and Manatee
Brainwaves
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Art!
It’s an exciting time ‘cause I’m rewriting/remaking/re-everything-ing the Silverwood novels and as part of this I’m doing a lot of sketching and maybe will make prints so thought I’d share some of what happens in the sketchbook as I go along
The Silverwood books are speculative scifi in which the Silverwood clan have been the keepers/maintainers of the mechanics of time for centuries but were pushed aside by greed (of course) - and the humans’ natural predator, venomous shape-shifters, are taking advantage of the situation
The sketchbook incorporates aspects of all this as unfiltered from my brain:
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Things Of The Week
I love word games. Here’s a fun one! You pick words before and after other words until you get the answer.
I flew over this in Southern California recently, and was like WHAT THE HECK and the answer turned out to be very cool. Or very warm. It was on and the three lights were SUPER intense out there in the desert.
Part of the thinking for Silverwood is derived from electromagnetic forces as applied to time, here’s a cool article on that
Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.
May you light up, may you play some very good music in your home, won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy
HELLO AND THANKS FOR READING!!
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