The unmarked choice of colour for underwater scenes is, of course, blue.
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
Nino wakes up in the middle of the night: there is noise in the kitchen … and water everywhere! What’s going on ? Leaning out of the washing machine’s window, “zioup!”, He slips … and finds himself in the open sea! Where is he ? Could this be Venice? A wonderful metaphorical journey to evoke the adventure of becoming a big brother.
PINK
But really, an underwater scene can be any colour you want it to be.
GREEN
ILLUSTRATING THE DIVISION BETWEEN UNDER AND ABOVE WATER
Contemporary artists who depict water beautifully
Calida Garcia Rawles e.g. ‘The Space in Which We Travel‘ (2019)
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project: