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As the year nears a close, I’ve grown a lot more successful at cutting out a lot of wasted time and pointless online noodling (not the Avocado, I should add) to get down to brass tacks and finish long-outstanding creative projects. As some of you probably know, I’m going on about my webcomic Fairy Locks again, but this time I’ve actually finished a new issue: The Dissolution.

I’m about two ahead now and am very confident that I’ll have it finished by the end of the year (for personal reasons, I’d actually like to get it done before the solstice, as I leave for Louisiana the following day). While I’m a little resentful at myself that I’ve sheared away so much creative fertility to get this thing done, it’s my own damn fault, and it’s kind of exhilarating in a weird way to have such an unyielding goal ahead of me; something tells me I’ll feel just a little bit lost when it’s over.

Today’s header image reflects that feeling just a little: Drops of Life (1924), a painting by the Russian painter, explorer, and quasi-spy Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947), probably one of the primary influences on my own painting. Roerich spent a lot of time in Central Asia and his work transcends its Orientalist subtext to create timeless dreamscapes that dwarf both his subjects and their viewers.

How’s your work going?