Island Ink Studio - Spirits and Steel: Where the Membrane Thins (Spirits and Steel Volume 2: The Clockwork Tide — A Pan-Caribbean Mythology & Steampunk Fantasy Adult Coloring Book Book 1)

The Caribbean is not a setting. It is a cosmology.Every tradition brought to these islands — African, Indian, Chinese, indigenous Taino, Creole— survived because it was true enough to survive. The machinery of empire could notdismantle what people carried in their memory, their music, their devotion, and their fury.Spirits & Steel is what happens when all of that is still happening, simultaneously, in a worldthat has also invented brass clockwork, steam power, airships, and the particular danger of awoman who has had enough.Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins introduces sixty original characters across ninethematic sections — warriors and goddesses, spirits and inventors, death keepers anddevotional dancers, necromancer queens and fallen angels — all drawn from the full ethniccomplexity of the historic and contemporary Caribbean. Each image is rendered in intricatepencil shading with cross-hatching for depth and volume, designed to reward patient, detailedcoloring.This is not a tropical escape. This is Port Caribe — a steampunk colonial port city where thespirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon, where the harbor is governed by women thecolonial record pretends don't exist, where a Haitian loa buys rum with coins from her skullrings and a Chinese-Caribbean membrane cartographer maps the boundary between theliving world and the dead one from a gear-crowned observatory in the harbor quarter.Inside Volume 1 you will find:• More than 60 original characters including warriors, goddesses, loa, engineers, obeahpractitioners, corsairs, and cosmic powers drawn from Yoruba, Taino, Hindu, Vodou,Aztec, Mayan, and Creole Caribbean traditions• Intricate full-page illustrations in detailed pencil shading and cross-hatching, portraitorientation throughout• A world built on the premise that every spiritual tradition the Caribbean absorbedsurvived because it deserved to — and is still operating, simultaneously, in a city that alsoruns on steam and brass• Characters of Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Chinese-Caribbean, mixed Creole, andTaino heritage, rendered with cultural specificity and without compromise• The beginning of a ten-volume series set in one of the most mythologically rich andunderrepresented settings in fantasy illustrationFor adult colorists who want more than patterns.For anyone who has been waiting for their mythology to be taken seriously.For everyone who knows the Caribbean contains multitudes.Pick up your pencils. The membrane is thinning. Read more