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Dave’s (or Dave Bowie’s) Goblin King of the Labryinth Pie, Yukari Sakura, 2016. Linking to my Nat. Brut essay about Yukari Sakura , an artist at Creativity Explored via CE's blog. An excerpt: During our interview for this piece, Sakura’s gift for storytelling is evident. It is as distinctive as it is remarkable. Her mind seems to zoom a mile a minute to fantastical realms I can barely fathom — one moment dropping knowledge bombs about endangered Siberian tigers, and the next spinning a fanciful love story between a winged elk and a fictional autistic woman. Fantastic creatures including unicorns, fairies, mermaids, and centaurs make regular appearances in her tales. Her excitement is infectious but sometimes makes her tales hard to follow. Throughout our dialogue, I notice that she often provides a magnificent “how” but struggles to give a satisfactory “why.” This is endearingly summed up for me when our conversation turns to The Da Vinci Code, a film from 2003 starring Tom ...

Finally! I've been threatening to start this thing up for AGES so here we go :-) In an ideal world, I'd write/post once a week on Wednesdays but, seeing as this is the real world where crazy, unforeseen complications sometimes occur (DT is President, y'all) I'm not going to hold to fast to that. Thought I'd start things off easy with some writing I did earlier this year. I submitted three pieces for Nat. Brut, an online "journal of art and literature dedicated to advancing inclusivity in all creative fields." This essay is about a woman, Ms. Rosena Finister, who works at Creative Growth in Oakland: A Little Birdie Told Me .