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Community Art Project: Dream
April 23, 2005

Community Art Project Logo, Click to go to the website From April 7 through May 27, you can see my illustrated poem," "Tree Sprites Never Learn" hanging in the Chapel Hill Town Hall as part of the 2005 Chapel Hill/Carrboro Community Art Project: Dream. The poem was originally published in the first issue of Spellbound, a wonderful fantasy magazine for children. The image is a Photoshopped photo I took on the Appalachian Trail outside Hot Springs, NC (near Asheville) in 2003.

Hanging 2D art isn't exactly my MO, so alongside the work is a URL to http://www.alexwilson.com/dream/ where I've posted a short explanation of the work, a quick Photoshop how-to, a free spoken-word download of the poem, and a link to order prints.

I "recreated" the poem as a 2D piece of art for two reasons. First, it was my 200th submission of my writing, which I wanted to be more special than, say, another rejection from Asimov's. (Don't know, though, whether a local rejection would have stung worse.). Secondly, I've been looking for a way to get involved artistically with the community--beyond the acting work.

So there it is then. Proud to be a part of it.

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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say.

Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.



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