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About the story - Light 1.0
The outspoken truth is a powerful force for healing and social change. That is why I wrote Light 1.0. That is the purpose behind my life and all of the art I create, whether digital paintings, songs, poetry, journalism or books.
Light 1.0 is the dramatic story of one woman’s fight to survive and transcend the chaos, pain, wounds and absurdity of a childhood spent being raised by white collar drug addict parents. Light 1.0 wades deep into the dark woods of addiction, family bonds and denial, but always looks through the dark to the light – always softens its blows of painful reality with the belief, and experience, of transcendence and hope – even humor. In Light 1.0, Tiger has spent half a lifetime healing and sorting through the effects of a childhood foundation of untruths, chaos and parental neglect inherent in a family of addicts. In the telling of her tale, she offers inspiration and insight to all who have known the tragedy and wounds of any familial dysfunction (most all of us!).
Light 1.0 also addresses the intellectual neglect of girls – a topic of particular interest after the President of Harvard recently raised an uproar and questions about the intellectual capacity of women!
One of my favorite writers, James Baldwin, stated, “You have to give them redemption (with the truth). I have softened the sting of Light 1.0 with resolutions of a sense of life awe, beauty, frailty and hope. I have also attempted to strike a balance between the voice of the wounded child Tiger and the healed adult Tiger. The prose is lyrical alongside the annotations of illustrative music, art and accessible poetry. It is a poignant, sometimes dark, and often startlingly amusing and uplifting tale of transcendence.
Tiger, the principal character ofLight 1.0 , is a truth-teller. Dysfunctional families (and societies) do not like truth-tellers, because truth-tellers raise the shades on denial, share dark secrets, and unmask the wizards who hide behind curtains weaving spells of untruths to maintain the status quo. Dysfunction survives through denial, and those in dysfunctional dances will do almost anything to quiet the truth-tellers. Dysfunction is a disease perpetuated by denial, and the only cure to it is a truth-teller. In Light 1.0 , Tiger fights to see the truth while every person around her denies it, and she persists in telling the truth, while every person around her attempts to silence her. Eventually, it is the truth that frees Tiger. For that is what truth always does – in the end.
I write both to entertain and encourage social change. In my youth I was fascinated by anti-illusionism in literature; that literary device – to remind audiences they are observing a work of art, not reality, in order to encourage them to think rather than be mesmerized – wound its way first into my work as a film student at San Francisco State University, then into my digital paintings (see Tea Gypsy in Art in Time page), later into my writing as a political and social commentary columnist for the Glendale and Burbank newspapers, and finally into my new media book writing. I do not want readers of Light 1.0 to be so caught up in the story of Tiger that they forget to reflect on their own lives and world; to that end, I change voices, talk to the reader from time to time, and employ a variety of annotation types – drawing the reader from the main text to reflective illustrations and text. The reader is obliged to interact with the book, even in its non-interactive version, and that interaction, I hope, will encourage the reader to reflect and act some way in his or her own life as a result. I believe I have found the perfect vehicle for my voice in New Media literature authoring and performance. I am developing a play from Light 1.0 right now, and hope to find a theater venue for it soon. - Terry
Technical & Creation Information - and Credits
Light 1.0 is a novel, a work of creative non-ficiton, a memoir, poetry, pictures, music, quotations, whatever I feel appropriate to tell the story.
This is a demonstration page from my interactive multimedia novel Light 1.0. Not all buttons are active, but the start and stop buttons to play the music on left, Tea and Scones, will work, and other buttons on top right marked with yellow highlights work, too: the web button will send you back to my main web page, the contact button lets you email to me. And the play and stop buttons in the main nav bar will play the book's narration track read by me .
It took me a couple of years to create Light 1.0 because of waiting for technology to be capable of what I wanted to do with it. I had the whole text of the novel in my head, waiting. I enjoyed working on the film Amadeus when I was first out of college, and reading about how Mozart composed symphonies in his head, and then just transcribed them to paper; that is how I write all my essays and now this novel. I have my next novel planned in my head now, too, so I am anxious to get this one published so that I can move on.
I have been creating digital art and interactive multimedia since the late 1980's. I did it for law firms and museums and corporate marketing departments to earn my living while I worked on all the creative things in my "time off." Light 1.0 is the first manifestation of the dreams I had as a writer and an artist when I first moved from filmmaking to computers. I imagined I would be able to make little movies on this computer thing that would allow me to use whatever graphic or text or audio device was necessary to best tell my tales. Of course, back then, I could never imagine what all the possibilities would be! But, I did know that I wanted some way to make use of all the variety of art skills that I had, and was interested in, to express myself.
This web demo version is produced in Flash. The actual interactive book was created in InDesign and exported to Acrobat PDF format. It will be available in print and DVD format soon. The book will also have a web version, similar to this, of course.
The tea cup and saucer you see on the left kind of look like photographs in their small semi-transparent states, but they are actually painted by me in Photoshop, and appear in my painting Tea of Heritage on my Gallery 3 page. That is something I am playing with as a digital painter - repurposing my own painting parts in others of my paintings! I didn't invent the idea: famed printmaker Durer was known to re-purpose foreshortened feet that he drew in the 16th century, because they were so time-consuming to create.
The music is composed and sung my me. Guitars on Tea and Scones are Ric Ickard and me. Back-up singers are Jean Pickard and Patty Quintana.
Terry
