“Wings and Shackles” is a collection of short visual / graphic novels (three so far) that tell dreamy stories about individuality, groups, culture, creativity, and work.
The stories are filled with (visual and literary) symbols (many hidden), and their images are intended to convey deeper meanings that haunt many of our strange relationships with ourselves and with others.
Graphic Novels
The Collection : Wings & Shackles
This book contains all three graphic novels in the collection:
- Land of Iron
- Persistence of Defeat
- The Citadel and the Crowd
Land of Iron
“Land of Iron” is a short graphic novel about a man’s struggle. He is torn between his duties and drive for achievement, and his soul’s pull towards a life of meaning, peace, and beauty. The struggle, that many of us face, usually ends in an unfortunate way.
The Citadel and the Crowd
The Citadel and The Crowd is an artistic contemplation into individuality, promise, creativity, and the invisible shackles that surrounds us. The story is told through poetic images and symbols that convey many hidden meanings and themes.
Persistence of Defeat
This story goes through the mind of an old ‘king’ with a mysterious past. Images start creeping into his seemingly blissful life, revealing a wide set of possibilities and scenarios about his past self. As they destroy his sanity and tranquility, he is forced to confront the past and think about choices he has made.
Beyond :
Passing Clouds
“Passing Clouds” is a book of strange short stories.
They happen in peculiar universes, with eerie laws, to unusual characters…
But they are not completely implausible. They are about what matters in our lives. They contemplate knowledge, will, beauty, culture, creativity, language… and identity.
Fuzzy on the Dark Side
Approximate Thinking, and How the mists of creativity and progress can become a prison of illusion
Check out the page describing “Fuzzy on the Dark Side”, where I explore approximate thinking and the problems that reside in the inadequate treatment of incompleteness.