preserving artistic integrity

‘erenna’
August, 2005.

With the peak of the heat from a desert summer day, my pen yielded to a fit.
i drew a picture of the view out a window of a spaceship.

She was a passenger.
She was waiting, patient,
And close to earth.

She was to have her mother’s imperial hands.
Arachnid her fingers to the grace of the praying mantis, an attribute likened to divinity. Wrapping around the contour of the glass of water on the window’s ledge in space, she would make her appearance.

It was a sketch of a concept. A sketch that I visited many times thereafter, waiting patiently, and trying to overcome the unsettling…

It was the concept with which I fell in love, ‘Erenna’, though still inconclusive as it was as a sketch…

Until I noticed the egg.

And then I saw the stars.

Then, there was conclusion.