OCEANS AND DREAMS Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Artifacts by Lee Mothes

New Island Books, Maps and More

Since about 1995 I've been exploring the idea of an alternative culture - one more place out there where people consciously care for one another and for the land they live on.
It started with a long series of paintings of imagined landscapes, but they had a real-world look about them. My interests in mapping and in pre-agricultural matriarchal cultures led me to combine these landscapes into an entire island-nation, situated in the south Indian Ocean.

While researching that region's real-world history and politics, an alternative history emerged, based on the fateful wrecks of three ships beginning in 1799. The island's climate, geography and prehistory also helped shape the historical turn of events, all the way to the present.

I see New Island as a plausible fiction, a 12,000 square-mile what-if waiting to be discovered. What if there was a truly by-the-people democracy leaning gently toward a matriarchal culture? And what if the Islanders cared deeply enough about their island, and the world beyond it, to live truly sustainably?

The books, maps and other artifacts below are part of my desire to share New Island with the world at large.

The Hum, An Extraordinary Journey of Awakening, is now available on Amazon.

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The New Island Guidebook - the complete reference to the land and people of the The Commonwealth of New Island

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The New Island Guidebook - the complete reference to the land and people of the The Commonwealth of New Island

$34.00

The perfect companion if you are reading The Hum. The Guidebook is illustrated with full-color maps and landscapes created by the author. Available on Amazon for 33.42.

The Guidebook, deluxe package, signed by the author and with the New Island road map, travel tickets and postcards included is available from Lee’s studio for $48.00.

193 pages, full-color, paperback, 2023 edition.

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