#insular

WAV.LENGTHS

Is the big one I want to chip away at. It’s supposed to be a catch all for all the shows (not the Disney movies, sad face), weave everything together neatly, and tie it up with a pretty bow(finale, because they deserve one). Formatting is the problem I encounter with this one, since html coding isn’t something I’m knowledgeable in. I can draw comic panels, and I can force myself to write with enough treats, but coding? Gosh. The world building required to patch all this together deserves a site though and I want to do it justice. It’s probably gonna be on neocities. One small step at a time they say as I chuck myself in the deep end. Someone psychoanalyse me pretty please, I don’t know why I do what I do. I have a (growing) fifteen hour long playlist for this project. I can’t even call it a fanfic anymore. Fan project.

Gosh.

Soentro

Is the grittiest of the three. A grim noir comic I’ve been going back and forth on for ages. The art I have here has elements I’ve since donated to WAV.LENGTHS, that’s how long I’ve struggled with it. Lots of studying for this one too, but it’s more for reference. Color symbolism is supposed to play a large role it it as well, despite it only being shades of black, white and red. YOU MIGHT EVEN RECOGNIZE THE NAME FROM ONE OF MY EARLIER ARTWORKS THAR I’M STILL PROUD OF!!!

THIS ONE! IN THE CORNER YOU’LL SEE THE OLD TITLE! Soentro is a shortening of Software Entropy :DDD

INSULAR

Manuscript Monday

This Insular manuscript was created by Irish Catholics, who were well known to be stewards of knowledge and artistic ability during the ‘dark ages’ of the 6th-10th centuries CE. In particular, the Insular style consists of flattened, two-dimensional figures of people and animals accompanied by elaborate ornamentation throughout its pages. We often see interlacing designs and Celtic knots within this ornamentation and the proportions and rendering of the figures and architecture seen throughout the manuscript are not always realistic. For example, in the Book of Kells, produced around 800 CE by Irish monks in Scottish west-coast island of Iona, the columns holding up the arches on canon tables are circular and would lack structural integrity in the real world, for obvious reasons. We can see the flattened, strange rendering of figures on folio 32v (shown below), which is a depiction of Christ Enthroned. Christ’s knee is lifted to hold up the codex in his hand, but the placement of his knee is anatomically incorrect. We also see the flatness of the figure and the inclusion of ornamentation throughout the image, and we can see even more of this decoration on carpet pages throughout the manuscript. The Insular style was not only limited to manuscripts but was also used in metal objects like broaches, chalices, sculpture, and architecture which are also said to have been inspiration for Insular style manuscripts.

Our copy of the facsimile of the Book of Kells was published by the Faksimile Verlag of Luzern, Switzerland in 1990 and includes a separate volume with commentary edited by the noted Trinity College librarian Peter Fox. If you have the urge to see the original Book of Kells, it is shown in the Trinity College Library in Dublin. The library shows two folios of the manuscript at a time and changes the pages shown every twelve weeks.

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hearth:

The floor of a fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement.

Family life; the home.

unfettered:

Not bound by chains or shackles.

Not restricted.

domicile:

A residence; a home.

An abode or mansion.

insular:

Of, relating to, or constituting an island.

Living or located on an island.

Suggestive of the isolated life of an island.

serialize:

To write or publish in serial form.

To convert an object into a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.

To write a television program, novel, or other form of entertainment as a sequence of shorter works with a common story.

senility:

The quality or state of being senile; old age.

Senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.

The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.

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