Simona Dimitri's Blog, page 20

The island

 

"What delight there is in an island home when onelands and makes safe the boat after a voyage [...]."—Dream Island, R. M. Lockley

 

 

 

The island / sketchbook

 

 

 

 

The island

 

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unlike anything else

 

"This was impressive enough, but the accompanying noisewas unlike anything else I have ever heard. It was a siren,a blizzard and a wailing child all at once - an animal really -and it was followed by a sonorous chugging, like a steamtrain gathering speed.”   —Clive Oppenheimer, Mountains of fire

 

sketches & beautiful writing

 

 "This revealed a remarkably regular oscillation everysix to nine hours: the volcano had a pulse." 

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"To have reached the summit of a far-flung eruptingvolcano, to see my footprints in pristine cinereous powderthat a day before had been viscous magma in the Earth’sinterior,[...] brought a self-awareness that was new to me.A nomadism and curiosity that still influence my careerwere ignited beside this expressive, mysterious crater.Volcanoes were now engrained in my story." [Ili Boleng]

Clive Oppenheimer, Mountains of fire

 

the shadow in the garden

 

 

the dark warren

 

  Watership Downa fragment Fiver gazed back at him with eyes that, like a fly’s,seemed larger than his head. ‘You think that,’ he said.‘You believe that. But each of you, in his own way, isthick in that mist. Where is the —'  

the winter tree

 

 

The grey GardenThe winter treeThe Selfish Giant digital illustrations

 

The grey garden

 

 The gardenThe Selfish Giantdigital illustration& fragments

 

The garden

 

[digital] drawingsThe Selfish Giantspringtime in the garden