My paintings and mixed media pieces are images pulled from emotions, ideas, and desires. In the current book I'm working on, Chronicles of Fear - Tales of Woe, I've created 27 illustrations and paired each with short prose. It continues the ideas of my other books, Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden - Life is Full of Pricks and Fairy Tale Remnants.
The original title of Chronicles of Fear was Chronicles of Desire. I felt the pull of "want" dragging my characters into extreme states of being. As the project progressed, I saw the absurdity, tragedy, and comedy of this cyclone of terror coming from each character's inner world. I realized fear was the force behind these powerful states of existential crisis.
Fear is a curious beast. If we conquer it, we can reach our dreams on the other side. If we let it swallow us, there's no limit to its depth.
I hope that defining these vices through a hyper-colored lens makes these horrors more digestible, even humorous.
Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden - Life is Full of Pricks (Indigo Raven Publishing, 2021) and Fairy Tale Remnants (Indigo Raven Publishing, 2019) Are available on Amazon in paperback and ebook.
Chronicles of Fear will be released in Fall 2023 in paperback and ebook on Amazon and select retail outlets.
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