You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich

Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi
Beware of paying attention
or going back to what you once were,
when God wants you to be something
that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison

My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

Hope means hoping
when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
Faith means believing the incredible,
or it has no virtue at all.

~ G.K. Chesterton

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown

Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown

Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
Do not have your concert first, and then
tune your instrument afterwards.
Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven) 

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
An Allegory


This was the longest amount of text I tried to incorporate into an Artist's Book. How did I keep it from crossing the line over into just an illustrated book? The answer came from the printing process itself by allowing the vagaries of the AB Dick press to produce images and pages that weren't planned. On the press, you run many sheets through until you get the ink color and consistency that you like...and in order not to waste paper, you run paper through that has already been run. I began to see images come together, and text blur, on those test pages that was more than what I had hoped for. It wasn't until after I assembled one "the way" I had designed it that I realized that was not the answer. The answer, even to the story that was the inspiration for the layout, was that all sorts of mixed up things come together and make beautiful crazy sense.

So each copy of this book is unique. Hand selected pages, some linear story, and some not, some with five layers of text on it, some with images that weren't supposed to be together. Don't worry, you can still read the story (and you can read it here on this site: LINK TO WRITING SECTION) but like all stories, it's better when you just jump in and find out the piece you're in now.
Castles in the Sand: An Allegory

© 1990 Lisa Bowes LaLonde

Printed by Lisa LaLonde on an AB Dick offset press

All hand-assembled. Includes hand-sewn binding

Multiple edition: 50, each one different with uniquely selected pages and sequencing.

Price: $25 (includes shipping)*







*Orders from outside US, please Contact Lisa

Please allow 10-14 days for delivery