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“I See”
- This painting is based on the book “Mind of my Own” and based off the character Mary from said book. This painting is a depiction of how the artist sees the character and presents them in matter in which they feel represents an action they would do. Painted by Mecca Newman
- Book Synopsis: “Mind of my Mind” “For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken -- and rule -- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people.”
“Wolves”
- This painting created by Jose Pablo shows what he creative mind thinks of Wolves and what he sees them as. These Wolves are painted with different colors to show differences of each wolf. The expression of each wolf also goes to show how each wolf feels.
- Book Synopsis:” An innocent family, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.
They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with it, developing amazing powers, near-immortality, unnatural desires - and a need to spread the contagion and create a secret colony of the transformed. Now the meaning of "survival" changes. For the babies born in the colony are clearly, undeniably, not human...”
“Jesus Eats at the Table”
- Another painting created by Jose Pablo. This painting was inspired by “Dandelion Wine”. This Painting is supposed to represent how he sees the message of the book and what it means for them personally.
- Book Synopsis: “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
“By the Pricking of My Thumbs”
- This Painting by Emilio Remier is created using Oil and Acrylic paint was inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. This painting is artists way of portraying the book.
- Book Synopsis: “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
“Self-Correcting Machine”
- Painting created by Thaddeus Inchoate is inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s book “Breakfast of Champions”. This painting is meant to show the multiple faces of the book such as the satire, racism, other issues addressed in the book.
- Book Synopsis: “In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.”
“Lilith”
- This painting is created by Crystal Jaudon and is painted using Acrylic paint on a canvas. This specific painting was inspired by the trilogy, Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler. This painting is supposed to represent the main character of the book trilogy.
- Book Synopsis: “Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...
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“Oankali”
- This painting was also created Crystal Jaudon and was created by putting a multimedia image onto a canvas. This painting was inspired by the Ooloi from Dawn. The painting was meant to represent the alien lifeforms present within the universe of this book.
- Book Synopsis: “Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.
The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly. “
“Mind of My Mind”
- Painting also crafted by Crystal Jaudon is Inspired by the book “Mind of my Mind”. The image displays a doll that has superpowers shown by its eyes a double image.
- Book Synopsis: For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken -- and rule -- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people.
“The Pattern Master”
- This painting was created by Crystal Jaudon and inspired by the book “The Pattern Master”. This image has a very visible pattern of a mask that consist of purple and white.
- Book Synopsis: “The combined mind--force of a telepathic race, patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power, He has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition----except one. In the wild, mutant--infested hills, a young apprentice must be hunted down and destroyed because he is the tyrant's equal....and the Pattermaster's other son.”
“Lonesome No More”
- This painting was created by Crystal Jaudon and Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slapstick. This art piece is a homage to slapstick with its creative and wacky design.
- Book synopsis: Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.
“The Pattern Master”
- The painting also created by Crystal Jaudon sporting a pattern design while also using a “pattern” which pays homage to the name of the painting and the name of the book. This time the pattern is its use of blue and unique shapes which comes together to form an interesting painting.
- Book Synopsis: The combined mind--force of a telepathic race, patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power, He has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition----except one. In the wild, mutant--infested hills, a young apprentice must be hunted down and destroyed because he is the tyrant's equal....and the Pattermaster's other son.
“Ylla”
- Also made by Crystal Jaudon this painting was inspired by “The Martian Chronicles”. To quote “Her husband. Though he pretends to deny the reality of the dreams, becomes bitterly jealous, sensing his wife’s inchoate romantic feelings for one of the astronauts.”
- Book synopsis: The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection.
The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.
But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.
