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I often feel like the most amazing, the most meaningful, the most important to say things are hardest to talk directly about. That's why we have stories and art and music, isn't it-- to say the things we can't, otherwise, in a general sense. In a lot of ways, I default to the symbology of fairy-tales and myths to condense these truths I care so much about to their most potent and painfully intense form, so they're like jagged little pills of truth and beauty, terror and need, love and devastation and discovery. All the things I'd want to take with me to a deserted island... I think most of them are in Rollo Armstrong (Dido's brother!) & Jason White's illustrated children's book, 'Safe from Harm'.

So I wanted to figure out a way to get everyone to see it-- but it's 80 pages or so of illustrated largish/nonstandard size, so it'd take me awhile to scan even 20% as a sampler. Instead, I scanned a few of my favorite beginning pages just to show what sort of book it is, even though they cut off weirdly anyway, it's late & I'm too tired & the pages graphically connect in any case. Still, it's probably enough so you'd know if it calls to you & you wanna get it.
    (Yeah, I'm looking at you, loftily, ahahah :D)

( ...some scans from Rollo Armstrong's 'Safe from Harm'. )