Eartha & Aetherias

Alicia Bay Laurel is the celebrated polymath - artist, author, and musician - who found international fame as the visionary communard behind the classic self-sufficiency book "Living on the Earth".Her latest production Eartha & Aetherias is described by her as an "eco sci-fi romantasy graphic novella." It draws upon her experiences living in Hawaii during the nineteen seventies and all that entailed: "hiking on volcanic mountains, swimming in waterfall pools, ecstatic improvisational dancing, communal living in the jungle, sailing, camping on beaches, learning natural medicine from holistic healers, permaculture gardening, foraging, cooking with hand-gathered ingredients, chanting with Tibetan lamas, and receiving Hawaiian songs & guitar tuning from Hawaiian elders."The book's first incarnation was presented by "twenty-five year old" Alicia as a reading with illustrations and accompanying slides to a packed audience at the Maui Community Theatre in Kahului in 1974. But Alicia never…