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The Understanding Monster - Book Three - by Theo Ellsworth (Hardcover)

The Understanding Monster - Book Three - by  Theo Ellsworth (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An epic, cosmic, psychedelic journey of the creative spirit concludes as Izadore's body, mind and soul are reunited at last.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>An urgent (and often very funny) attempt to explain a coocoo-rococo cosmology made up of garbled fragments of role-playing games, <i>Transformers </i>episodes, relaxation exercises and horror movies.--<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>The final chapter of this epic trilogy finds our hero, Izadore, awoken with his mind, body and soul reunited. The last Monks of the Imaginary Man lead him beyond Toy Mountain to discover the true nature of the relationship between imagination and reality.</p><p>Not simply concluding the relentless, psychedelic plot, <i>The Understanding Monster--Book Three </i>explains how our creativity re-shapes our world, how we can overcome doubt through self-actualization.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught artist and storyteller living in the mountains of Montana with a witch doctor and their two sons. He is a co-founder of the Pony Club Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and has served on the jury of the Small Press Expo's Ignatz Awards. His art, which <i>Pitchfork</i> describes as a combination of <i>Where the Wild Things Are</i>, a fever dream, a pagan woodland ceremony, and a notebook doodle, has shown at galleries across the country, including Giant Robot in New York and Los Angeles, and has graced the covers of several popular musicians' albums, including Ramona Falls and Flying Lotus. Most recently, he has collaborated with Viscosity Theatre on the stage production of <i>Mystery Mark</i>, incorporating his artwork into the stage design and costumes. A tour of <i>Mystery Mark</i> is forthcoming.

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