#blurring lines

first posted in facebook march 15, 2024

philemona williamson -- "red buckled shoes" (2017)

"i paint figures depicting individuals of varying ethnicities inhabiting timeless, invented, dream-like environments, i probe the psychological landscape of adolescence, blurring the lines between race, gender, and class" … philemona williamson

"oh i used to be disgusted and now i try to be amused. but since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes" … elvis costello

"my paintings are of pre-adolescent girls and boys, children on the cusp of adulthood. the figures struggle to balance their innocence and awkwardness with their newfound sexuality" … philemona williamson

"one, two, buckle my shoe" … old nursery rhyme

I just wanted to say that I read Blurring Lines last week in like one sitting and I absolutely loved it! You are so talented and I felt as if I was actually living their story with Ben and Callum. Do you have any plans to write a sequel? I think there would be a lot of love for it if you did!

Hi! Thank you so much! It's really nice to know that Blurring Lines is still getting read after all this time and just the thought of someone reading it so quickly is incomprehensible to me - that really means a lot. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I had planned to write a sequel so there's a couple of story strands that I deliberately left open-ended. But then when it came to it, I realised I didn't know how to build a story around those strands or how to properly connect it all together. Anything I've written in the past has come quite naturally and unfortunately that just hasn't happened with a Blurring Lines sequel. I would never say never on anything though as I know where they're going and want to be able to share that - at the moment I just don't know how to get them there.

In the meantime I have plans to write a Christmas fic later on this year and hopefully if I can get that done and out of the way then I can start to focus on the Blurring Lines universe again.