![]() ![]() Each image is highly detailed and facial expressions take on an intense, almost haunting quality. Her palette of pinks, peaches, and other pastels, offset with blacks and grays, makes everything bold and pronounced. Memory is a running theme in Valero-O’Connell’s narratives and illustrations. In “Con Temor, Con Ternura,” the locals celebrate as they wait for what may be their demise, using the time to reacquaint themselves and remember lives lived and shared. ![]() By the time they do reunite, though, they may not know each other at all. In “Don’t Go Without Me,” the lovers must give up memories of each other in order to find one another again. ![]() An intense air of melancholy suffuses the book as Valero-O’Connell pairs love with loss - a nudging reminder that one comes with the other. In the titular story, two lovers get separated in a parallel dimension the second story tells of a technician stranded in space, with someone else’s memories as their only company the last recounts a community preparing for a prophecy that may lead to its destruction. From Don’t Go Without Me by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell ![]()
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