volcano love synopsis

Volcano love,  Coco by OUNI

Volcano report: drawings by Laura Geurten for Coco Pastis

happy to finally share these beautiful sketches Laura Geurten made for me.. Volcano love!

VOLCANO report: Laura Geurten

Laura's lines and shadows create the mystical, foggy world I want to live in. 

intro volcano report: Pele, mother

Ho! mountain of vapor-puffs,
Now groans the mountain-apple tree.
Alas! I burn in this deathless flame,
That is fed by the woman who snores
On a lava plate, now hot, now cold;
Now ’tis a canoe full-rigged for sea:
There are seats at the bow, amidships, abaft;
Baggage and men--all is aboard.

Alas, there's no stay to the smoke:
I must die mid the quenchless flame--
Deed of the hag who snores in her sleep,
Bedded on lava plate oven-hot.
Now it takes the shape of canoe;

Seats at the bow and amidships,
And the steersman sitting astern;
Their stroke stirs the ocean to foam--
The myth-craft, Kau-meli-eli!
Now look, the white gleam of an eye--
It is Nihéu, the turbulent one--
An eye like the white sandy shore.
Amen, possess me!

intro volcano report: Stromboli (eruption)

From the movie "Stromboli" with Ingrid Bergman: director Rossellini filmed a real volcano eruption for this scene. A man died during the session..

addendum prestudy II

prestudy II - Pompeii

prestudy I - smoking mountains