“I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way.” ~ Nathan Englander, Author

I am a creative writer as well as a painter/illustrator. Sometimes an idea for a story comes from a sketch, sometimes it’s the other way around, an idea for a sketch comes from a written passage. This is what I jotted down after creating the combination analogue watercolour and digital illustration:

“The green sphere raced through the atmosphere, flying in the wind through the cosmos, hurtling towards a who-knew-where destination. Arriving on an ordinary day in the imaginative life of the artist-writer, the work had only been in existence since the day before when It flowed off the pen of the ‘creator’. A character is tasked with unravelling the ‘squiggles’ to reveal what, if anything, is concealed by the quagmire. The painting’s occupant wondered aloud “who the hell does she think she is, anyway? Building worlds and creating inhabitants only to abandon them to the whims of time, wallowing in the ‘legions of forgotten ideas’. We deserve to know what happens to us! Finish the story, dammit!.”

What I like about writing is getting lost in these worlds of imagination. Who would have thought that a little squiggle drawing could spawn creatures with human-like abilities? These stories stretch the concepts of reality. Creating something in another dimension or space. The human brain is a miraculous thing. Our stories can take us to the moon and back, as well as to the outer regions of the universe. They can even take us inside a little scribble drawing, with a scribble hero who wants to free the world from its network of confining scribbled lines. I wonder if, at the end of it all, the hero finds out that the scribbled lines are all that there is, and that in trying to free the world, he or she actually destroys it.

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