Book Illustrations
Commission the Artist as Illustrator
“Seven More Years” (art work) for the book “Owl Meets Cat”
Work title: “Seven More Years”
Description: This is commissioned art work by Marco Verdugo (Jervis Bay). The music album “Owl Meets Cat” is a musical and visual storyline. It comes with a book narration which includes this art commission. My artwork entitled “Seven More Years” comes with my written take on the song.
Artist Reflections:
This song, “Seven More Years”, narrates the lost, despondent, even desperate journey of a young girl through seven cycles of physical maturity – at age 17, 24, and 31, going through the abyss of
substance abuse/ addiction, and consequent rehabilitation. Ending in disillusionment about the wonder and purpose of life.
Ironically, it is a painful and undirected life story — which is not A-typical. This is not a unique story.
Depression, anxiety, and mental health are a global epidemic today – not only in young adults; this issue straddles children, parents, teenagers, to the elderly – across the board.
Having grown up in a domestic violence household, and being a mystical seeker most of my life, this dilemma grabs at me on two levels
