Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

The four­teenth issue of Wisp is released.

Here follows my editorial:

Beyond The Pale

by Éric P. Lemoine

In the latest book of the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, the eleventh and last of the Wizard’s Rules is revealed —not taught but rather shown, in the form of a highly sought after book. The book is unveiled to be all blank.

[as explained by the Zed­dicus Zu’l Zorander] The rule of all rules. The rule unwritten. The rule unspoken since the dawn of history […] The only way to express it, to make sure that you would grasp what he was intending to tell you, was to give you a book unwritten to signify the rule unwritten.

—Chapter 65, p. 592, U.S. hardcover edition

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“The picture of a flower in a botanical book is infor­mation; its mission ends with our knowledge. But in pure art it is a per­sonal com­mu­ni­cation. And therefore until it finds its harmony in the depth of our per­son­ality it misses the mark. We can treat exis­tence solely as a textbook fur­nishing us lessons, and we shall not be dis­ap­pointed, but we know that there its mission does not end. For in our joy in it, which is an end in itself, we feel that it is a com­mu­ni­cation, the final response of our knowing but the response of our being.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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Ping feng (or byobu), tra­di­tional screen (wikipedia commons)

The Shift

(See this post for some context)

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I recently tried some­thing new to reconnect with the joy and the flow of inspi­ration that one can expe­rience while writing. Bear with me for a moment before I tell you what it is. And if you can’t, it is all fine, you can jump to the end of the post, and you would have proven the point I am making.

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Wisp 13 is now released.

Here’s my editorial:

Exquisite Corpse

by Éric P. Lemoine

Spontaneity—genuine spon­taneity— beyond what appear­ances might tell us, is not some­thing that comes easily, espe­cially given our usual upbringing which tends to bend or harness it into some­thing pro­ductive for society.

The Sur­re­alist movement in the 1920s is remem­bered among other things for artistic and playful exper­i­ments that led to expanding our bound­aries and views of reality by prac­tising spon­taneity without allowing the thought process to hold the full promi­nence it usually gets. Auto­matic writing —and auto­matic drawing— were in fact tech­niques that Sur­re­alists developed exten­sively, before they were used by pio­neers of con­scious explo­ration such as Jane Roberts.

One of their games/experiments in par­ticular was known as “cadavre exquis” (exquisite corpse). It required a group of people to col­lab­orate in order to compose some­thing (ini­tially sen­tences, but by extension, drawing, collage etc.) without having a com­plete view of what the others had con­tributed to the creation.

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Wisp 12 is now released.

Here’s my editorial:

So Long As It’s Black

by Éric P. Lemoine • pub­lished in Wisp e-zine, issue 12, June 13th 2009

In these times we’re living in, success is more often than not valued by the end result. Little is thought of the process leading up to it, not to mention the lengthy detours that may have been required in the making.

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It’s been a while since I have posted a little ani­mation from the steps of my sketches (that I some­times save reg­u­larly enough to give an idea of how it works), so here is an update. Other pre­vious time-lapse videos can be found at my website tagged “process”.

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Some tiles’art for the year to come…

If you remember the “tiles” (see below), you’ll probably like this cal­endar for 2009 where beau­tiful imageries have been put together around this concept, with pho­tog­raphy and 3D renders by Jib.

Tiles were intro­duced early in the col­lab­o­rative story (Circle of Eights, p.229) in this entry, where Midora, a char­acter in our future, uses her favourite handbook of symbols:

[…] So she had found a compass… Now, she would have to learn how to use it. The intro­duction of the book said:

The tiles pre­sented in this book all have dif­ferent func­tions; they can be pri­marily under­stood as focal points which enhance spe­cific uses of energy. […] As far as we know, they can be dis­covered in many sit­u­a­tions, either objective events (e.g. some­thing that catches your gaze in the street) or in the sub­jective (dreams, visions, inspi­ra­tions etc.). In both cases, the recog­nition is instan­ta­neous, as each tile carries a dis­tinctive ener­getic sig­nature which is the essence of its “function”, so to speak.
As such, it can be used the­o­ret­i­cally in both sit­u­a­tions (sub­jective and objective), though, as far as we have explored, sub­jective inter­action with them seem to be the easiest and most quickly rewarding way of accessing them.

It was inserted in April 2008 without really any fore­thought about which book it could actually come from — that’s the greatest fun in writing works of fiction and fantasy! And only later (November) it became the intro­duction of a little book we’ve been putting together on a whim with Jib, to present with more details than on the website the sig­nif­i­cance and also the advice each of the tiles can give to you when you are pre­sented with these symbols (while keeping it a rea­sonable size: 42 pages, instead of the whopping 350 of Circle of Eights ) .

The book has been called “Some Tiles Of The City” (can be ordered from Lulu at the link).

We’ve been ordering a few books for our­selves, and have sent per­son­alized ver­sions to a few people who were acquainted with the tiles concept. The feedback has been great; it has been a very inter­esting expe­rience to see that most of them also con­nected in various ways with the symbols.

These tiles are really funny to play with, and can pop up at very unex­pected moments.

For instance, when we were trav­eling in NYC recently, we were waiting for the opening of the locker room where we had put our luggage for the night, and I was beginning to become worry the people would be late for the opening and that we may miss our bus.
And right after that, as if to reassure me, one of tiles seemed to appear very clearly like carved into the cracks of the wall. Jib noticed it too. And it dawned on me that we con­nected this tile to “reunion after sep­a­ration, coming back as one”. So, it was like a con­fir­mation that we would be reunited soon with the luggage; and only a few seconds after that, the people came to open the room.
And of course, we didn’t miss our bus.

So, this cal­endar is also a good way to become adept at spotting them, and cre­ating one’s own symbols.

Enjoy!

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“This is truly the nature of your essence. You have only com­pli­cated this focus, but you are now learning to move back to the effort­lessness of your essence. You do not work at dreaming. This is just as much a part of your essence and your reality as your waking state. Your waking state may be as effortless as your sleeping state. We are of under­standing that you are quite happy and com­fortable with sleeping states. Waking states may be as easy as this.” [session 11, May 31, 1995]

Makes me think of this other quote I heard yesterday

Where there is love, there is no effort…

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