Illustrations for Hebeloma's Clockwise Cadenza (2023)
by the Staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House rendered several characters from books published in recent years by the PPPH as shrinky dinks.
This page features translations of the final illustrations for the musical score, Hebeloma's Clockwise Cadenza, which was being serially published on a daily basis in 2023 on the blog of the Poison Pie Publishing House. The original artwork was created by street artist, Ms. Julia K. Keffer of Phoenix, Arizona. Hebeloma's Clockwise Cadenza recounts the adventure of Melanippe, one of the maidens offered to the minotaur by King Minos, immediately after she escaped from the labyrinth.
January: King Minos, the despot
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February: Melanippe, the cartographer
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March: Theodoros, the scholar
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April: a seabird, one of many avian companions on the voyage of the Aetos
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May: Linus, the singer
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June: the eye of Zeus in a storm at sea
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July: a Berber woman of Carthage
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August: the Ethiopian, an oarsmen hired mid-journey
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September: Halosydne, a nereid
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October: the brooch of the harbor master at Tingis
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November: the hand of a mother
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December: a turtle at sea
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Melanippe's map of the labyrinth
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Melanippe's map of her travels around the Great Sea
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The captain purchased a set of eight plates in Gytheio, each decorated with a different beast. This plate depicts a chimera.
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This plate depicts a hippocampus.
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This plate depicts a hydra.
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This plate depicts the minotaur.
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These plates form the lower frame of the forthcoming mobile.
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Melanippe was hired as the cartographer on the ship as it made a clockwise passage along the coast of the Great Sea. This is the central portion of the five pieces for this rendition of the map.
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The Southwest quadrant.
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The Northwest quadrant.
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The Northeast quadrant.
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The Southeast quadrant.
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The assembled mobile was photographed on a foggy Sunday morning in October at the Poison Pie Publishing House.
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The twelve illustrations used as chapter headings are arranged into four sets of three at the lowest level of the mobile.
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The four plates in middle level of the mobile.
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Melanippe's map forms the canopy of the mobile.
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A couple more views of the mobile.
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