When I used to play Minecraft one of my favourite pastimes was seeing how I could repurpose the desert pyramids into liveable spaces. Then when they added the shipwrecks I moved into those as well and then they added a lot of structures and I stopped playing (not because of this specifically).
The thing is I love a good abandoned place reclamation, always have. Maybe it goes back to when I was a child and making cubby houses out of any nook you could find.
I have strong memories of a book I read, I’ve no idea what it was called, it’s probably famous and I’m oblivious but some children made a home out of a large hollow tree. They were incredibly poor and had simple food, like plain cheese sandwiches or something of the like. I know I definitely related to them at the time.
Over the years I’ve often thought of that, I guess it was formative, grouped in with a bunch of “discovery” books. Books that helped my sense of self awareness and consideration. That must have been a very early one since I have so little recollection of the details outside the scenario.
I also remember a birthday sleep over on a farm, where trees had been cleared and dragged into a massive pile. Our group spent the most part of the day scrambling through the significantly sized pile of old trees and branches. Our “base” as we found spaces that could serve as rooms and whatever else. No parent would allow this today, someone definitely could have been hurt but then adventure has its risks.
I was obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Three Investigators and their repurposed office in the junkyard where they could operate their after-school investigation business. The case of the flaming footsteps and the like, for anyone who knows me, the appeal of such adventures quite irresistible, if only for the amazing titles!
So I enjoy a good repurpose and this blog is another example. I bought this domain years ago with the hope of writing about coffee and comic books, later a comic strip about the internal bureaucracy of an evil empire and even a Tumblr style art site drawing comic book characters holding coffee cups. I have always loved those images and drawing them.
Now with my online drawing persona retired and my entering an incredibly exciting (for me at least) career phase making indie video games I wanted a space to just put my thoughts. I don’t know what this will become but I love being able to breathe here. There’s no expectations, I don’t care if people follow and like and share and subscribe and smash whatever buttons LOL. I’d love people to enjoy it of course, this isn’t a oh I don’t want any followers but please hit the subscribe button situation, screaming into the void is great and fine but it’s always nicer with company.
But I’m not going to shoot for the algorithm, there won’t be a theme other than what I want to share. It might be a drawing or a review of something or an idea scribbled on a napkin. It could be anything and I feel incredibly free by that.
So I genuinely do invite you to keep an eye on this hollow tree in the forest. I may only have plain cheese sandwiches but we’ll see where it goes and maybe you’ll find something you like.
Lee
PS: If you know the book I’m talking about please let me know in the comments LOL – I could just find it on Google I’m sure but there’s something nice about a human imparting their own knowledge and I have a feeling at least one person I know probably knows the book.
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