This is an early series. Quite frankly, I don’t think it has any kind of story to it, I was simply experimenting with page layouts and a then-new feature called “Off Canvas”. I pushed that feature to its limits.
The myth of Orpheus has captivated me since I was a boy and was amplified when, as a young man, I saw Jean Cocteau’s film version at my university theatre. It’s truly a heartbreaking love story.
Meditations on the death and rebirth of light during the 2022 Solstice. This leads naturally into the Carnival / Mardi Gras Season, which begins each year on the evening of 6 January.
This series is an examination of New Orleans Mardi Gras from an ex-pat who dearly misses the event, the culture, but most of all the FOOD of New Orleans.
I started this story as a continuation of the Carnival series and got swamped in the middle of it, so I stopped posting – for quite a long time, it turns out. Priorities, you know?