These low-resolution photographs are part of a series concept called Being Island: A Light Year.   I don't want to deface them with a copyright notice, but hope that visitors will respect that a lot of care and work went into their production.  While I remain primarily a writer, anyone interested in collecting or showing this configuration, or others that are part of the series, is welcome to contact me at dord@eol.ca.

As an experiment in the reading of events and patterns, Lear’s Shadow evolved between May 2000 and January 2006,  when it went dormant but remained on the internet.  Content was withdrawn in October 2008, as more and more evidence surfaced that both the site and one of my obscurely published novels had been secretly  mined, for profit, by a commercial novelist who was lacking in ideas and other things.  This did not make for trust, either in the internet, or in humanity at large, which seems increasingly fragmented.  Not least through this screen that grants all secret wishes.

The title Lear’s Shadow comes from William Shakespeare's King Lear, Act I Scene 4, when the King is slipping into madness:

Lear: Who is it that can tell me who I am? 

The Fool: Lear's shadow.

The original texts, photographs, site design, collages, and drawings are Copyright ©1999-2009 
by Douglas Ord.  All rights reserved. 

Books by Douglas Ord

Tommy's Farm The Mercury Press, Toronto 1998

Oscar and Jeannie The Mercury Press, Toronto 1999

Navigating without a Compass Oberon Press, Ottawa 2000

The National Gallery of Canada Ideas Art Architecture McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal, 2003