Echoes from a Time Passage – Other Worlds, Other Times

The notion of time and plane travel is central to my book Echoes from a Time Passage, the forthcoming sequel.  Within the narrative the best category being ‘futuristic, esoteric fiction’, the protagonist from the plane of Ezskiasia, seeks to explore common threads of spirituality through the arts – dance as expressed by himself, and through the other characters, his poetess sister, composer Carl, musician friend Axzis, and virtuoso dancer his great love, April. The Time Passage, through which Markas travels, and the Songlines of the indigenous Australians through the compositions of Carl, express travel in time and space.

This book is the result of ‘knowing’ my protagonist since early childhood, then many years of exploration of these themes through my own art practice which includes a fine art degree in painting. My final studio project directly addressed the themes of recurrence and the concept of the Underworld as expressed by the ancient Greeks, and Greek philosophers such as Anaxagoras – who believed that Mind created matter and arranged it. In writing this book, I have developed the themes and ideas, and expanded on these in narrative form, the protagonist representing the Soul and his union with his beloved.  The Hadean concept is expressed as the Eternal Darkness the Order to which the protagonist’s family belong. This is not a negative concept but explores the idea of the Darkness representing all that is.  In the theology of the fictional Ezskiasians, they talk of the union of G-d Most High with the Divine Mother both having an equal position in the theology and from which life on all planes and places emanates.

In this book the Adepts are able to change shape and this puts the phenomenon in a different category to the usual concept of shape-shifting, as sacred chants are use to bring this about. But as seen with the antagonist, a theologian who misuses his disciplines, the results are cataclysmic.  Though out of the tragedy, new life arises, where once again, I am exploring the idea of recurrence and constant recycling of life.

Marcus is not one’s usual hero. I did not set out to turn him into one, but let the narrative unfold at will, as he moves from dancer and healer- priest, to the spiritual leader of his people through the medium of dance.

For the illustrations I chose to work in black and white, using water colour, pencil and water soluble graphite pencils.

The illustrations seek to augment visually, both the essence of ancient concepts and of that which is yet to come, the meaning expressed through the spaces between the strokes of brush and pencil.

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