I had to go hunt for my proof copy of the book in order to be able to look up the art this time. Tod snagged all my extras in preparation for the reading this Friday, at the University Bookstore in Seattle, at 7 pm. I’ll be reading with three terrific writers: Alma Alexander, Corry L. Lee, and Roz Kaveny.
So! Here’s day three of the giveaway. Comment to win!
(left to right)
Image #1 goes with the story “Therapy Buddha,” which is about how much we project things onto objects and coincidences. It’s near future, another one of the eyed creatures, this one peering down, a little inquisitively, a little confusedly. It looks like part of an organic machine, like so many of Mark’s images.
Image #2 accompanies the story, “Close Your Eyes,” which originally appeared in Apex Digest. This is the one I have as a tattoo, from back before I moved to Seattle, given to me one night in a Durham tattoo parlor. I like it for its ability to be wing and eye and fish, all in one. Vicki used it with the Table of Contents as well.
Image #3 looks like a rocket ship and a Greek amphora at the same time, perhaps bubbling over with some sort of pine and summer scented wine. I selected it to go with “Peaches of Immortality” because it seemed to me it looked a little like the machine at the end of the story.
Image #4 is a detail of the larger image that goes with “The Mermaids Singing, Each to Each.” I’m glad Mark pulled it out like this for the jewelry, since it makes a lovely little piece. His work often has a tribal feel to it, and this looks like an orca to me.
Image #5 goes with “Legends of the Gone”. Sometimes Mark repeats images and this is a variant of one that I always see as a large flightless bird, standing looking at the viewer. (You may not see it. That’s okay.)
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Number 5 could be a small whelk. Alas, it has only one eye and one cephalic tentacle–injured? A mutant?
And does anyone else see a row of eyes at the base of 4’s dorsal fin?
OK, probably just me.
I can see why #2 is a tattoo – it has such great motion to it. Beautiful!
I love these images! How many are there, total?
There’s 25 used in the book. Mark’s got a website with some more of his stuff up at http://www.spiderpig.com.
#2 is lovely, but the insectoid helmet appearance of #5 wins it for me. & Sunder, it isn’t just you…guess the eyes had to go somewhere Oo.O
Oooh, those are gorgeous. Number 3 is my favorite, I think.