I went back to The Forgotten, today…

… I wanted to show it to Flutter, who hadn’t arrived from the future, the last time I was here…

… but I also felt I hadn’t seen everything, last time…

… and I totally had not! There is so much to see, here…

… so many dark, hidden places…

… but, what I missed last time…

… is that there is cuteness here, too!…

… it’s not all darkness and decay…

… there’s all kinds of pretty little things… there’s even a shop, here! I’m pretty sure I still haven’t seen everything, but there’s always the next visit (:

After their asteroid stopover, the girls decided to explore Mars…

… their sleek new craft had no trouble getting them down to the surface…

… Mars is currently ruled by corporate oligarchies…

… whose hulking factories are terraforming the red planet. It’s surface is still lethal to humans, but now supports many forms of engineered flora and fauna…

… the humans live in massive, self-contained city-buildings…

… the Space Girls decide to explore one of them…

… the change of lighting is quite dramatic, everything is bathed in predominantly blue neon…

… though this lower, domicile level is pretty sleazy. The girls decide to spend the night in the comfort and safety of their heavily armoured vehicle.

Two girls have stopped on a shelf on an asteroid to enjoy the view…

… one is a cybernetic butterfly from the future who doesn’t need oxygen to function, and the other is a 4,000 year old being from the edge of the universe who metabolises her oxygen needs via a wormhole-like link to her mother, who is actually a sentient planet, so neither girl is bothered by the vacuum of space…

… they are out sightseeing in their new ride…

… although they are telepathically linked, the humanoid one sometimes verbalises what she says to her little companion, whose answers are only heard by her…

… ‘Well, this is pretty, isn’t it, sweetheart?’ she says.

My darling little lepidoptera and I visited the Love&Love Factory Art Gallery, today…

… there are several exhibitions to view, there…

… but this one was, by far, our favourite…

… it makes for a stunning photographic backdrop…

… we enjoyed posing before it (:

I am showing some new work at Placebo Gallery, the show is called ‘Digital Collage’, which is what this new work is…

… these are my interpretation of ‘collage’. Like traditional collage, all the materials are ‘found’ images, not my own photography, nor that of my human…

… apart from a small amount of blending, I’ve deliberately kept the technique to that of ‘cut and paste’, though, these being done in gorgeous Photoshop, I’d be silly not to use the ‘blend’ ability occasionally, which is why these are ‘digital’ collages, because aspects of them would be impossible with cut/torn and pasted paper…

… the images range from quite dark to quite light-hearted…

…the light-hearted ones were fun…

… which isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy doing the darker ones, either (:

Flutter and I recently visited Cica Ghost’s ‘Somewhere‘…

… I was straight away struck by the completely different palette here, from Ghost’s previous work… it’s basically greys, instead of browns/greens, and the sky is nothing like the usual, seemingly aquatic skies… I really liked it…

… the whole place is a desolate wasteland, really…

… but there is enough ubiquitous Cica Ghost cuteness to prevent the place from being depressing…

… it’s a gorgeous, whimsical wasteland…

… there’s just the right balance of cuteness/darkness/bleakness, to make this more of a contemplative environment than a dark one…

… this is my favourite Cica Ghost build, now. She is a very prolific artist, and I like the way her work has evolved, lately…

… we enjoyed wondering around this landscape, giving space to all the other contemplative wonderers (:

Something was forming in the mist ahead of us…

‘It’s our place’ Flutter excitedly squeaked “It does seem to be, sweetheart’ I replied, secretly delighted she’d said ‘our’…

… everything was still shrouded in mist, and my (our) familiar home grounds seemed unmoored, and adrift…

… nothing felt quite right…

… ‘Look, the seahorse sculpture is in a different place…’ said Flutter…

… as we climbed the steps, we could see that, not only had the sculpture been moved…

… there was a new water feature…

… a new raised garden, new statues…

… ‘I’ve never seen this entire area’ whispered Flutter “Me, neither, darling’ I replied…

… ‘It’s very pretty’ Flutter commented…

… ‘It sure is, just the kind of thing I’d build’ I answered. ‘Lets keep it, then’ she suggested…

… and, just like that, we both woke up, and we had a new area in our garden.

But the dream wasn’t over…

… the sound of the roaring surf grew suddenly silent, replaced by gently lapping, barely moving water, a bare murmur on hissing sand…

… we were on a beach dotted with large boxes, still shrouded in mist. It was still very quiet, except for the gently lapping sea…

… ‘Are YOU in MY dream, or are we dreaming together?’ I asked Flutter…

… ‘Well, as YOU seem to be in MY dream, I’d say were are, indeed, dreaming together…’ mused Flutter…

… ‘Look, what’s that up there?’ she asked.

Shot in ‘Revival‘