The story of Cerulean* and his Odyssey.
Cerulean is a person who undertakes a long journey in search of a place he has never seen but longs for in his heart. Cerulean means "sky blue." For as long as he can remember, he has enjoyed travel, especially long distance journeys. He was especially drawn to specific places along the journey, places that stirred within his heart a passion to know more about what lay ahead, a place Augustine called "The City of God." And so began his Odyssey in search of that city. The epic, begun in 2004, is written in a style of conceptual contemporary poetry, based on spontaneous thoughts during times of personal travel. The epic also includes a series of poems ( tableaux or sketches as Cerulean chronicles the journey ) that undertook to deconstruct fragments of newspaper headlines reflecting the mores of the body politic at the time, only to reconstruct those fragments over a period of six months.
The first journey, titled: "Cerulean's Odyssey - The long distance voyager," (2004-2005) includes 200 tableaux. The second journey, titled: "A journey through the wilderness," (2005-2006 ) has 100 tableaux, and a third journey, titled: "Fellow travelers along the way," ( 2006-2007 ) includes 110 tableaux. The fourth journey, titled: "Visual streams on consciousness," ( 2008 ) is 80 tableaux, and the fifth journey, titled: "The valley of death," (2009) contains 100 tableaux. The epic Cerulean Odyssey, is the longest epic written in Canadian literature, comprising 94,542 words, in 17,611 lines, and 636 tableaux.
* Image of Cerulean in a contemporary Japanese Manga style was drawn by Gerrit Verstraete
