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WORDS AND PICTURES JERRY A. SIERRA ROSA BLANCA PUBLISHERS TERMS OF USE By using this book, you agree to the following: · You may not change or alter this book in any way. · This book is sold “as is” without any warranties of any kind. While a great deal of time and effort has been spent in the production of this book, it is understood that the author/publisher shall not be held accountable for misspelled words, typos, incorrect dates or other information. COPYRIGHT © 2018 Jerry A. Sierra This book as a whole, and its many individual elements, including short stories, restored images, digital paintings and photomontage, regardless of whether they appear as part of a complete printed book, a web site, or as separate, smaller Ebooks, are the property of Jerry A. Sierra (unless otherwise identified) and may not be reproduced, copied, sold or published in print, on the Internet, or on any other new or traditional media without prior written consent from the author/publisher. The author/publisher reserves all rights to any future media types not yet developed. To my dad on his 93rd birthday and my mom on her 80th birthday, 2018 What is this? I don’t know... I think it’s a book. What’s a book? …!? I asked you here, my friends, because there’s something wrong with reality… I hope you’re not alarmed by what I’m about to show you… INSIDE ABOUT WHY BECAUSE 6 Embracing Unreality 10 MEA CULPA 22 Universal Brides and Monsters 24 Franky and Lily 37 Poster: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE 43 Predators, Xenomorphs & Humans 44 TIME TRAVELER 58 Poster: I WANT TO BELIEVE 63 Leo Da Vinci 64 We Are Ape 66 Star Trek 69 PICTURES WITH WORDS 76 Heroes, Psychopaths & Original Thinkers 84 Vinnie Van Gogh 108 Wire Woman 116 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 118 AFTER ALL THESE BIRTHDAYS… I sll find it limiƟng to describe “what I do” to strangers… as if I’ve not yet… decided which of my disciplines describes “me” with more accuracy. What I know for certain is that I make images and I make web sites and I tell stories. And I make books. That’s just the kind of guy I am. In all these adventures, I enjoy each step of the process. I love devising new ways to communi- cate ideas and put informaon together… I love to chunk data into consumable bites… each wrapped in their descripve META data and proper headings… I love figuring out how to make grouped “things” easily graspable to those with short aenon spans. And I prefer to do it without gratui- tous explosions or carnage. If I could resolve the puzzle of my creave/ would have naturally discovered, if only you lived professional identy, I would call myself a front- in a perfect world. Things that nobody had any end-web-designer, which is the closest descrip- way of knowing you would be thrilled by. Least of on to actual reality that I can make about myself all you. and my work. Like an umbrella in the rain, it This book is meant for that person that could “covers” all the other skills from the slippery focus have turned down any isle in a book store of “specializaon,” which I do agree is for bugs. scanning the shelves for a Kokoschka. She comes Or, I would describe myself as a photo- across Words and Pictures and realizes that “I illustrator, for which this book would serve never thought I would like this stuff, but I love it!” as evidence. Instant mind expansion. But why use words alone to describe some- And I like the idea of helping to preserve the thing that exists between words and pictures? book industry a lile while longer. And why make a book based on a web site? Isn’t print dead? Didn’t it die long before good Ahem. manners and presidenal decorum? Ladies and gentlemen. Please allow me Some people don’t even know what a book to interrupt and provide some clarity… As Mr. Sierra’s psychiatrist, friend and is. Others just pretend not to know… maybe to alibi, I feel it’s my duty to clarify what is make themselves appear younger… or to avoid rapidly becoming an exercise of “this-is- having to explain what books are. why-I-did-it.” To properly clarify my movaons for the You can call me Hann, and you’ll see me-consuming distracon that became this that my insights will make all this… easier on the book, I must go back to when I moved to San palate. Francisco and gave up (cold turkey) my Your host is neither a writer nor a photogra- gasoline addicon. pher, but, perhaps, either a photographer that Within a 5-block radius of my apartment, I writes or a writer that photographs… it’s difficult to tell where one identity stops and the other had the choice of 4 different book stores, each in begins. He confesses deep love for being one that a different direcon. Three of them sold mostly can also be the other. But most of the time he used books. There were many more if I was purposefully doesn’t clarify which is which. willing to take a longer walk. This is not unusual for schizophrenics and You could be happily surprised at a San Fran- Laker fans transplanted to the Bay Area, and it cisco book store. You could find stuff that wasn’t has been the main topic of our professional geared to your known profile. Things that you consultations, so take it as gospel when I tell you that this book is the result of a battle between disciplines. Which side makes the choices that must My question to Jerry was… why can’t inevitably be made at the design stage? The I speak with him… His response came in writer or the photographer? And are these a different voice with different eyes, two disciplines always agreeable with each which was a surprise. other? This may be the key in understanding It wasn’t what he said, but how… why a person of some intelligence would waste almost a whole life in the arts… BçÝ I Sù ÝÊ! I’m Walter. I speak as Jerry’s Heeyy! Information Designer. Jerry won’t let That’s insulng… me speak to Dr. Lecter, because he’s afraid of what I will say to him… or do Sorry, Jerry. I’ll proceed. to him. But I can talk to you. Is it the journey that’s important or the destina- Don’t believe a word THE SHRINK tion? Which is dominant at that moment of says. He’s a psychopath that choice, the chronicler or the inventor? The visionary eats people, for God’s sake! I or the communicator? don’t know why Jerry keeps After accepting such divisions in the Mind of Jer- him around, but I’m glad he’s ry I mapped the very distinct differences between locked up tight. I don’t think the two and concluded that while my client and Jerry trusts the cannibal at friend “thinks” in pictures, he is doomed, as are most all. He does keep armed humans, to speak in “words.” guards around him 24/7… but Words are an abstraction, the key to which we sometimes I think the guards do not all share. So, we embrace the questions. are there to keep the rest of us Such questions are only part of what makes my from feeding Hann to the job a pleasure and a challenge, and why I com- dinosaurs. They have a mand such high fees, despite the drab garb forced strange relationship, those on me by so-called mental health “professionals” two. and unforgiving bureaucrats hoping to beef up their scorecards. What I meant to say is that Here’s the shocking discovery and the reason I we’re all professionals and we asked to speak to you… Throughout my inquiries, I do our jobs. We don’t judge or pick encountered a disturbing and unpredictable third per- fights with each other. sonality actively functioning within, between and I can tell you that not every figure throughout the writer/photographer personalities. out there can join the Unreality This third personality, generally well-hidden, Players Union… Many end up being emerged not in therapy but after hours of Brandy and given away as gifts… or disposed of confessional bourgeois rhetoric about incorrect movie quietly, in the desert, at night. Like in plots and telegraphed endings. I call him the Information Casino. Designer. He’s rather unpleasant, often casting a But let’s face it, most creative deciding vote when writer and photographer disagree. types… photographers… writers… I also found this “information designer” to be they’re flakes! If you ask me. No disci- deviously manipulative; he stays out of the way like a pline. Just passion. Blind animalistic good villain… he lets the others fight it out and when one intuition. Gamblers! is done, and the other worn out from the fight, he steps Sometimes it’s up to me to sort in and steals the loot and gets the girl and the audience out the mess. is told to be happy that he did. But this third guy won’t speak to me… it’s only the writer or the photographer that speaks… Not that I haven’t tried, but the last time I asked... I decided to stop asking. For now. One last thing… I’m not… unpleasant. I’m necessary.

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