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

February: Melanippe, the cartographer

March: Theodoros, the scholar

April: a seabird, one of many avian companions on the voyage of the Aetos

May: Linus, the singer

June: the eye of Zeus in a storm at sea

July: a Berber woman of Carthage

August: the Ethiopian, an oarsmen hired mid-journey

September: Halosydne, a nereid

October: the brooch of the harbor master at Tingis

November: the hand of a mother

December: a turtle at sea

Melanippe's map of the labyrinth

Melanippe's map of her travels around the Great Sea

The captain purchased a set of eight plates in Gytheio, each decorated with a different beast. This plate depicts a chimera.

This plate depicts a hippocampus.

This plate depicts a hydra.

This plate depicts the minotaur.

These plates form the lower frame of the forthcoming mobile.

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.

The Southwest quadrant.

The Northwest quadrant.

The Northeast quadrant.

The Southeast quadrant.

The assembled mobile was photographed on a foggy Sunday morning in October at the Poison Pie Publishing House.

The twelve illustrations used as chapter headings are arranged into four sets of three at the lowest level of the mobile.

The four plates in middle level of the mobile.

Melanippe's map forms the canopy of the mobile.

A couple more views of the mobile.

 

 

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