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I'm the Author - Bryan White.

This is somewhat of a shorter anthology of my art and writing, stemming back to 2006.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDHHVZBQ

In this Book...

Digital Art/Sketches

Drawing has always been a part of my life. My grandfather was a sketch artist and I grew up with sketches of his art posted on the wall at my uncle’s home. His style was a mix of chaotic scratches and geometric lines, which often resulted in strangely precise architectural drawings.

As I got older and my own style began to develop, I feel like his drawings heavily influenced my methods. And when I started to do digital art with a stylus pen, the style carried over well. I hope you enjoy the art here and it invokes emphatic feelings towards life and nature.

Poems

When I was in high school, my first career that I became interested in was literature. I had written a few poems, and my father took note that I had some talent. He suggested I write one poem each week. Which, I never achieved at the time.

I thought, I want to be a writer, but I have nothing to write about. And so I lived my life, completely consumed by science fiction, and biology, and genetics, and evolution.

But the call for writing was always there.

I don’t completely understand where the words flow from, only that they appear and occasionally rhyme.

The poems, like art, are from somewhere deep inside me.

Stories

The three stories presented here sample a broad philosophical motif - what is it to be human?

• If we could time travel, how would we use it? What would be the consequences?
• What would observing the birth of the universe look like, if such an entity was there to observe it?
• If you had an infinite memory, like Sherlock Holmes, but greater, how would you use it?

These are all questions that the natural world gives us, as humans, to attempt to answer.

Quotes from The Book...

Poems

• From "Destruction and Creation": "To write is to be immortal, / To be immortal is to be a god, / And to be a god is to be human."

Stories/Essays

• From "A Vampire in Zurich": "I am a creature of the night through necessity. Deceptive. Stealthy. Cursed."
• From "The Observer": "In the beginning was the aether and no one was there to see if it was good or bad."
• From "Recruitment of a Time Traveler at 4:37 PM on A Friday in the Year 2016": "There was something in it, the cosmos, that drew the travelers to me."

Art: Araneae

• "The black widow, with its striking appearance, displays a body of lustrous obsidian, emblazoned with a singular crimson hourglass upon its ventral abdomen. Its beauty, unmatched in the animal kingdom, is paired only with its lethality."

Art: Scorpiones

• "Mother of the Desert. Iridescent by night, hidden by day. She carries her brood upon her back, the weight of future generations resting atop her golden carapace."

Art: Laboratory Notebook Entry 1 (The Caterpede)

• "My mind saw inside the bonds between the two animals - neurons fused amidst rigid chitin. Had no one attempted this before? Perhaps not. But if successful, only one question remained: What would it metamorphose into?"

Author Bio - Bryan P. White

Bryan holds master’s degrees in Biology, Public Health, and Cybersecurity, with a background spanning 17 years in science and industry. His long-term vision is to establish a scientific research institute dedicated to advancing knowledge in biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and conservation.