Here is a Flash website made in wix,  to a house a short illustrated narrative I recently drew.

Click the screen cap to see my story in its little Flash nest

As those pictures and drawings come down, I’ve put up 12 new line drawings up on flickr.  The drawings date from the end of summer to yesterday evening and the themes are somewhat disparate rannging from Kissing to Kerouac to Cancer Research to Leonard Cohen to Ikea and The Dance.  You can also browse my pics using this very nice flash gallery by airtightinteractive.

They Said Repent Repent

Beauty And Comfort In A Twisted Logic

Yet When He Called Out Not Even An Echo Replied

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As of today I have a selection of my pictures and drawings on display in Godt Brød ecological bakery/café, Trondheim.

Godt Brød Trondheim
Thomas Angells gate 16
7011 Trondheim
73 53 61 40
Click here for a map

Opening hours are 8am-6pm everyday except Sunday.
It’s an excellent bakery/café right in the city centre so please drop in, have something to eat, take a look around and leave a note in the guestbook!

The exhibition is a mix of things old and new.  On display are my previous black & white photographs from France and Scotland, a more recent surreal/dark series on loneliness and solitude and also a few of my line drawings that are fresh off the press.You can also look at/buy postcards and my collection book Times Beyond the Tree.

You can browse my photos and drawings here

If you are interested in buying any photos/drawings/prints just get in touch for a price and details on size and framing: davidmichaelshanks@gmail.com

Thanks,

David

emotional eviction, originally uploaded by David Shanks.

More recent line drawings and photos from Cuba are now available over on my flickr page

Times beyond the tree is a short portfolio selection of my recent photographs, line drawings, texts and song lyrics.

Loneliness, solitude, emptiness.

Awareness, connections, excitement.

Beauty.

A tiptoed journey that turns dead-end glances to next door’s shadows

An awkward, onward struggle that can never be as expected

A couple lie in bed and listen to one another breathe

An old woman is reassured as a flag signals her death

Two strangers find out they have already met and spoken without words

And a windowsill sunset somehow connects it all together in perfect harmony

The title is a reference to Chris Marker’s photomontage La Jétée . A man travels back in time to save civilisation and find his former love. While in a park, the couple stare at a cut cross-section of a giant sequoia tree that is marked with historical dates. The man points somewhere beyond the tree and says “This is where I come from”.

• Preview a low quality selection of the book directly here

Onward Upward Struggle by David Shanks

• And here are some of the drawings on Flickr for a more considered look.

• I will also be having the photo below published in the Swedish magazine Utblick in conjunction with an article on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.