The Deep Green Sea - Ashe, Kelsey
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The Deep Green Sea - A Hauntingly Illustrated Literary Journey Through Myth and Memory. A poetic odyssey that drifts between dream and reality, The Deep Green Sea is an illustrated surrealist novella that immerses readers in the ebb and flow of longing, isolation, and self-discovery. With 50 original illustrations, this book is more than a story, it is an experience, a work of art, a spiritual adventure set deep in the southern Antipodes, written in the metaphoric language of fairytale. Away in faraway future, a Mirage of women exist secluded on an Islet by the deep green sea. They live beyond…mehr

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The Deep Green Sea - A Hauntingly Illustrated Literary Journey Through Myth and Memory. A poetic odyssey that drifts between dream and reality, The Deep Green Sea is an illustrated surrealist novella that immerses readers in the ebb and flow of longing, isolation, and self-discovery. With 50 original illustrations, this book is more than a story, it is an experience, a work of art, a spiritual adventure set deep in the southern Antipodes, written in the metaphoric language of fairytale. Away in faraway future, a Mirage of women exist secluded on an Islet by the deep green sea. They live beyond the veil of customary sight, where starry floors of watery shores glow bright and shimmering. The Mirage's only vocation is in the preservation of ancient dialogues between living creatures and the sacred world. This is the story of two Acolytes: Orla, who battles storm and sorrow to reach the Isle's hallowed sanctuary, and Roe, a Selkie born into the Mirage, who begins to question her place among the Isle's priestesses. A Luminous, hand-illustrated journey into literary magical realism. A lyrical meditation on isolation, belonging, and the wild beauty of soul transformation. For lovers of mythic fiction, spiritual fables, and sea stories. Premium Collector's Edition - Available Now "Lush and Haunting. A tale as mysterious and mesmerising as the sea. For lovers of fairytales, mythology, the surreal and magical. Kelsey Ashe's lyrical words shimmer in the liminal space of dreams and memory. Kelsey, a word and art witch, has cast a glistening magic charm which, like all fairy tales, will help you transcend life challenges as you submerge into the underworld of her fantastical deep green sea." Josephine Pennicott: Author, The Circle of Nine dark fantasy trilogy, Poet's Cottage and Currawong Manor. "Surreal and Magical. Your book pulls me in and out of the present and I fall into your drawings as if I am inside the dream. Your words flow like water or a steady beating drum. And all colour evaporates, it's just 'chiaroscuro', contrasting light and shadows. It's like being asleep and being woken with a phrase or command that suddenly causes you to remember.... Everything! It's beautiful." Kate Ceberano AM: Singer/Songwriter.
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Kelsey Ashe is a contemporary artist and writer whose aesthetic and prose draws from themes within Austral-Asian inter-cultural studies, constructed mythologies and ficto-critical narrative. Grounded in motifs of the Antipodean landscape, Ashe seeks to comprehend the hidden, mysterious, and deeply powerful sense of the sublime within landscape and our earthly and human relationship to it. Ashe has a Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD Art) which directs a depth of knowledge into contemplative works that examine both harmonious and difficult moments of cultural collision. In the age of the 'Archival turn' Ashe delves into allegorical, historical and mythological narratives, to subvert, intervene or disrupt the colonial archive. Ashe surveys cultural identity drawn from her Celtic convict and migratory ancestry and from the Austral-Asian basin she calls home - (the vast geographical region that sweeps from Polynesia to Aotearoa (New Zealand) across the land mass of Tasmania and Australia to Asia and Japan). Exploring the universal symbology of cultures, both ancient and modern, Ashe seeks resonances from previous era's; sensing traces of stories or beliefs from place, to perceive perceptions or concerns for contemporary culture. Ashe's practice-led research has traversed print and illustration, textiles and cloth, photography and film, performance and painting, with each new idea finding its unique expression of form.Dr. Catriona McAra, Curator at Leeds Art University UK writes; 'Ashe is something of a sorceress, conjuring within the realm of the international feminist-surrealist revival. Her practice has a powerful, consciousness raising ability; its tendrils are far-reaching, yet the work remains deeply rooted in an antipodean, postcolonial context. Ashe could be said to story-tell through what Michelle Williams Gamaker terms "fictional activism" (2018), a critique and illuminating recasting of traditional actors.' (McAra, 2021)¿