Drawing

October 9, 20008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- Edgewood NM


Avatars of Avilon
The Lost Bird Adventure
Written and Illustrated by
Cassandra Gordon-Harris

Published by
Tunedal and Videre Stockholm
Box 29
142 21 Skogas, Sweden
ISBN 978-91-977701-2-5

Available though blurb.com by the link below

www.blurb.com/bookstore/ [...] 75de087796947

You can preview the first 15 pages! It is a book of art, a story of friendship, courage and that bit of magic we all possess to use for the greater good. Listed in the children’s section, it is a story for all ages and it will make you smile!

I ask that you forward this on to your friends, you’ll receive no awards or miracles, just a big Internet hug from me!

Love and light
Cassandra

Ciao! Cassandra Gordon-Harris will have two works in this exhibit!
Red Moon Road and Fallen Stars

Sponsored by the Mayor of the city of Massa Lubrense (just outside the town of Sorento) and featuring the works of eight Mirca Art Group members along with eight Italian sculptors and painters. A true international exhibit from September 28th through October 4th. There will be an opening and closing reception along with a concert and general celebration as part of the bicentennial festivities of this town located across the bay from Naples.

If you are in the area stop by and say Ciao!

For more information contact Cassandra casgohart@wildblue.net or go to www.mirca-art.com&rel=nofollow"> www.mirca-art.com

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach


The newer paintings are stacked in a corner. Dust settles on their edges as it does everywhere in the house, a bane of the East Mountains. The other day I bumped into them and they had a dry sound not unlike last winter leaves pilled in another corner mulching down into something else. There are too many paintings sitting around.

I seem to have come to a dry spell, this has certainly happened before, where the paint and I have nothing to say to each other. There are stretchers waiting for canvas, there is canvas waiting for gesso, but I do not see them. I just walk on by.

On my drawing table lies the new obsession, my birds. Graphite alter egos of times and pleasures from a distant memory that lies on the edge of morning.

I was raised with birds; Macaws, Toucans, Yellow headed parrots, little Lori’s. Practically free for the asking in South America when I was a child. They were my friends, especially the macaws with whom I had a special bond. When I left for college, the birds mourned their loss of me, and died. It was so very sad, I cried for days.

My birds now live again. They are avatars of the alter egos of artist friends who have agreed to allow me to use their personalities. It is easier to draw a situation when I can visualize the entity. The story that is being created is called “Avatars of Avilon- the lost bird adventure”. It is a story for children of all ages, writing itself with each drawing.

I have 16 done, three more are sketched out; there will be about 25, maybe more, when I am finished. Some will just be small transportation drawings, others will occupy the top or bottom of a page. I am having an immense amount of fun! I also have two consultants, two 10-year old boys who will assist with the main confrontation of good an evil. Who better to see the truth of this adventure!

These drawings unlike the other bird drawing will not be posted to absolutearts for fear they will wind up in a bookstore in some other location (as has some of my other work), or downloaded and sold. Ethics are not sacred anymore. I have always felt if you need it that badly, you may have it! But not this! I will have the book ready by late October, I hope; and will be able to offer it to those who want to smile in December.

Therefore, in the meantime, my painting will wait as I delve into a bit of magic, laughter and childlike play.

Is that not cool!