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Wild places. Quiet Places. Here be dragons. Dragons still live in this world. Small, elusive, but enduring. Wherever the landscape remains unspoilt, wherever the silence is still unbroken, they can be found.
The dragons are not endangered: they were here before us, and will be here long after. But our lives, our machines, our technology have distanced us from the places where they dwell. Our days have become filled with deafening noise of our own making. We have all but removed ourselves from their world, and as we have done so our opportunities to see these creatures have become fewer and fewer.
Before too much longer, our lives will have become so noisy, so busy and so insulated from nature, that our chances of ever encountering these creatures will have almost vanished. The dragons will have retreated to places of wildness and and quietness. Places we seldom tread. This is “The Dwindling”.
And so, in Dragons of the Dwindling, I want to document these dragons – all of them – before it is too late. And I want to do so in a way that is appropriate to the situation: not with machines, not digitally, but through the simplest medium of all: pencil and paper. I want to step quietly into their world, tread lightly, look closely and draw what I find there.
Dragons of the Dwindling will be a celebration of these small, extraordinary animals. But it will also be an appeal: an appeal to preserve the simple human act of drawing on paper, and an appeal to retain a little more of the wild and the quiet in our lives.
Of course my eyes alone will not be enough to record all the dragons, across all corners of the world. And so I am appealing to supporters of the campaign to describe their dragons to me, so that I can attempt to capture them on paper and include them in the pages of this book. I am confident that by opening this project up to you and your ideas, the book will be more diverse, interesting and unexpected than anything I could achieve on my own.
As of August 21st, this project has raised $25,000 of their $9,733 goal. This project has 26 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $13, you will get one digital PDF copy. For a pledge of $26, you will get one physical copy. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsofwales/dragons-of-the-dwindling?
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