Here's a story from the vault while I write and draw new ones! 😉 Thanks for your love and support 'gram fam 💖 ~ 'What Blew in with the Cinnamon Breezes' ~ Her skin is as warm as the winds that seem to herald her arrival in some new place; she is as young and vital and fresh as any babe barely into their teenths. And yet, she is infinitely old, she is ageless- an orphan, a lone wanderer as her name suggests, Soledad's eyes are clear, bright and knowing, and utterly disconcerting. Three things she never keeps very far from her: the first, her sleek black cat Kismet, who himself may well have been many identical cats of the same name, or may, like his girl, be as old as the earth he wanders with her. Whether she has some secret compartment in those voluminous skirts, or she conceals it some other way, Soledad procures her crystal ball nary in the blink of an eye; it glows golden under her touch and turns all around it the colours of the sunset. And her cards, shuffled with a plucking flutter under her quick brown fingers. To all eyes but hers, flip them over and over, there is only a faded foil sun, identical each side save for slight irregularities in the way each has aged under the constant wear and worry of being read to strangers; each hoping she will tell them some glowing secret of their future, ready and waiting for them with a new morning. Rarely can any who have met her recall the nature of what was said in the shadows of her caravan. Each leaves, swaying ever so slightly, like one pleasantly punch-drunk, completely unable to recall what bright or burdensome secrets Soledad revealed to them, but softly aglow with a faint image of a fat and golden sun, and eyes as sharp and cool and all-seeing: their follies, their triumphs, their temptations.... There is a sudden change in the air; a wind, warm and animal and full of mystery, with a hint of cinnamon. Perhaps Sol will sail in on this breeze; a stranger with piercing eyes, looking for you, waiting with her cards and a secret in her smile . . . 🔮🌙#art #artist #artoninstagram #girl #bigeyes #lowbrow #popsurrealism #gypsy #fortuneteller #carnival #fairytale #blackcat #cat #gypsywagon #crystalball #magi