Fireflies

Last August,  I published a story, “Fireflies”.  But it was more than a story.  I asked my friend, Chris Semtner about illustrating it—with enough images for an exhibit at Art Works.  Chris began work on sketches, then paintings.

Then I asked Addie Barnhart to narrate and Keith Ramsey put the images and voice-overs together and created a film. On opening night at Art Works, the audience saw the paintings, the film and met the cast of characters that made all this possible. The paintings are available online.

The book is available on Amazon.

You can see the video on YouTube

Enjoy.

A New Story

I’m working a new story. In a way, it’s complete. But I think there is more to it then that which is on paper so far. I’m intrigued by this place where I live. After almost two years of being here, I’m only now discovering it’s secrets and magic.  Here’s the opening line of my story

“Granddaughter, you are right. This place, home, feels magical. And it’s not just the memories of play tea parties on the patio with you, or the building of little sand castles here on the beach park. Let me tell you the real story, or a part of it anyway. Interested?”

“Well alright then.”

Once upon a time, this tiny patch of grass and sand, this small slice of shore, where these three rivers merge-

Fireflies

What an evening at Art Works in Richmond, Virginia.  In the upstairs gallery,  ethereal paintings adorned the walls.  There were prints on the table and a stack of small books.

The lights went down in the upstairs gallery.  The projector light came on the video “Fireflies” came up.  It was a story, then paintings, then voice overs and images combined.

People listened, laughed and at the end clapped.

Thank you Chris Semtner for illustration my story.  Addy Burkhead thank you for narrating the story and creating the voice overs.   And thank you Keith M. Ramsey for putting the video and voice together.   You now have this story memorized, I know!

I’ll post the video here tomorrow!   Stay-tuned everyone!.

 

Glenda

A Place with No Name

I’m starting a new story.    Here’s the first paragraph.   Feels magical to me.

Once upon a time…oh what a time it was, far away from here and ages upon ages ago, there was a place that had no name.  It was so long ago that mountains were three times as tall as they are now having not been worn down by the ravages of time.   And rivers, scores of them, rushed through valleys, poured down crevices and disappeared in underground caverns so large that whales traversed these subterranes with ease and used them as birthing places.

© Glenda Kotchish 2017