Big time flâneur the Crimson G has landed

[Marie Wintzer]

This was a very much awaited envelope. In fact I had lost all hope of ever seeing the face of Cheryl's Giant. Do you know how long He has been on the road for? Three months! Where has He been all this time? Oh well, I guess they didn't call Him a flâneur for nothing, there must be an abundance of things to see between South Africa and Japan.
Ironically (before DVS or Snooks mention anything), the symbol on the front of the envelope looks so much like a roadkill! Love this....

In this Part One, the Crimsom Giant is about to leave Babel, looking back in sorrow. Things had been changing recently. The restless city was growing, the scaffolds extending to the sky, ever so busy. The earth, as it was, was already not As One any more. In this frenzy, symbols were about to rebel, but nobody knew yet. Except Him.
The Giant will eventually come back to Babel, but before He can, the most amazing things will happen...

Thank you Cheryl for sending, it is as beautiful as I expected it to be. The choice of blood red color is so opportune for the volatile Babel and the imposing figure of the Giant. Even the stitches are red, suggesting that nothing will be painless, not even healing.
Oh yes, and thank you for letting me into this project, I'm enjoying every bit. It is so interesting to see the book shaping up with everyone's chapters, each of them being so unique. Merci.

[cheryl penn]

Me sneak in road kill and mustachio's NO WAY! I must have a alter-ed ego sneaking in things I wouldn't dream of! Sneaky things alter egos - ask Marcel!

[Marie Wintzer]

You people are funny :-)) that mustachio looked like the horns of a buffalo to me. Maybe I was conditioned by Bifidus's avatar.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Ω....not a bar mustachio! Ωmega, it's Greek to me :-)

[cheryl penn]

What are we going to do when we get to the end of this???

[Marie Wintzer]

Thank you! Yes, the symbols are great aren't they (including the fantastic roadkill :-))
Maybe I pushed the saturation a bit (too much?). The paper looked really vivid in my hands, I wanted to convey this, the powerful crimson red. Scanners have a mind of their own :-))

[De Villo Sloan]

Excellent, excellent blog, Marie. The narrative explanation is very helpful, and I know the challenges of weaving a story for any part (or all) of TCG that doesn't somewhere begin to unravel when your busy with some other part of it. The scans are extraordinarily beautiful. Cheryl used another color paper? I don't believe my copy is this vivid. The symbols she chose are very powerful - you can see that here especially. Your chapter and this will make a mail-art classic, I predict!

[cheryl penn]

Eeek! Did I do roadkill??? NO WAY!!!!

[cheryl penn]

Hey Maire - I CANNOT believe HE took so long - but he arrived. A true flaneur. AND your chapter is last AND he arrived at you last - I think HE was making a point! Note: An alteration for all crimson gianters! That first page with the colophon that it is my book WILL HAVE TO BE STUCK OVER with a new book identity. The fact that it is a seven editioned book, plus one (always have to have a catch), list of participants etc. So I will post that once the book is done. Red. The color of life and death. The stuff of blood. The waters of living. The rivers of dead.