A few steps from Empress Zhangsun's tomb

This altered book was made for Cheryl Penn's Bhubezi Mythology. Have a look at the blogpost she wrote about it and the other beautiful members of the Women Who Hold Up The World.

Pasta and the Gogoons - A Gameboekie [Excerpts]

Even less FUturLUTUtu

Rubber stamp randomness (the sheet was used as a paper "underpad" when stamping)

Books of Ether Vol.4 - Growing Trees (collaboration with Cheryl Penn)

Growing Trees is a poem about making roots

in our own garden and extending branches towards

the world outside.

It's about taking care and caring, about the gardeners

that we all are.

Marie Wintzer

Don't second-guess

growing trees

write off

the unanswerable questions

plant every seed

      springing forth - 

      a compatible labyrinth

welcome to the secret world

Cheryl Penn

Fresh from the oven, the collaborative poem Growing Trees, Vol.4 in Books of Ether, is now available for free download at Scribd. Here are a few lines from the poem, and for the full text please visit: https://www.scribd.com/doc/258595673/Growing-Trees

They said to him you don’t take 
care of yourself in the midst of

mimosa madness
    we shall have to get

someone fake to take care
of you/words/paint/roots 
your memory may be wiped 
but your hat was on
I could not see your eyes 
inRows upon Rows

    of Phylogenic Trees.

You had a dream
Sit down, I will tell you 
running backwards
with your hair
in your face
in a parallel world
where even Time cannot fly. 
That's nice, but
can we make a living
with those shrubs
or are they only going to grow 
roots-into-blind-pipes?
You know their mirrors 
aren't that acute anymore 
Are you sewed-up? 

collecting shattered glass roots 
hitting dust from bookseagles on wooden cupboards 
mirrored in dirty bowls
everything is off
when we dream backwards
in a discarded house.
Hey Dad
it’s Madison (from a parallel world
       Sans trees) 
how are you
fine, you 
know
finea connectionlost. 

Maybe you should seethe Taxman on the Hill(he irons his electricity bills 
but they don't love him back). 
He too
  lost connection
  lost his mind on the Light Rail 
  lost his wedding ring in the mailbox
  lost a decade of photographs 
  lost all craving for junk food 
  lost the remote while TV was watching him
It won't be long until
Dust relapses into Libraries 

No FUturLUTUtu

Earthly [new e-book by Books of Ether] now available for free download!

Made of Clay.

Taken from the dust of the earth, these books became something else, data images that happened in Ether Realms.  It’s always trying to breathe new life into old ideas - like us, they’re never quite ready to die.

Cheryl Penn  

Making books out of clay,

the work of a potter [shaping soil into pages]

the work of a writer [chiseling words out of sodden earth]

the work of a gardener [growing roots across fields]

the work of an architect [building stories through dust]

the work of a musician [composing songs engraved in ether]

The beauty of those clay books needed no enhancement, their stunning naked aura was evident to any eyes curious enough to see. But one can always demand more of books…

Marie Wintzer

Visit our Scribd page for the full version: https://www.scribd.com/doc/253274958/Earthly

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