An alternative to coloring books, this invitation to draw, color, write, make collages, fantasize about creating a new world or just look was inspired by Ernest Callenbach's novel Ecotopia.
This unique book of drawings has been described as a "find" for adults or children as it invites them to enter a new world where their imagination can run free. As the book's back jacket copy says, "Draw, write, collage and color a future environment where you feel at home. Judith Clancy's drawings give you a start. They embody the spirit of Ecotopia -- the playful, human-centered, comfortably scaled, self-reliant, appropriate-technology country described in the novel by Ernest Callenbach. If you've ever felt that your life in present-day America is lacking in satisfaction, comfort and joy, here's a positive alternative -- put your dreams into visible form! This book can be your imaginative passport to a new way of life..."
The art of the late Judith Clancy (see Paris Alive and Not a Station But a Place) focuses on drawing and her teaching of Drawing/Seeing workshops stimulated growth of personal understanding and communication through the practice of drawing. Therefore it was inevitable that she would take the concept of a coloring book about Ecotopia and carry it through to this creative learning experience for people of all ages.
"Ecotopia is an imaginary place, yet it is all around us, in the process of becoming Ecotopians (people) enjoy a way of living that respects the natural order instead of seeking new ways to exploit it. The drawings (of this book) are not 'closed' or 'finished'; you can enter them -- enter imaginatively into Ecotopian life, where people work only twenty hours per week and accept a lower consumption of material goods in order to free more time for play, creativity, love, friendship. Thus this is a sketching and coloring book, but also a living book." Ernest Callenbach from the introduction.
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$4.25 Quality trade paperback, 48 pages
ISBN 0-960432-02-7 (Banyan Tree)
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