this has been sitting half-finished in my drafts for actual years - i kept wanting to update it for the later seasons, and i have some sketches, but i might as well post these first five! maybe i'll finish the others by the time season 10 comes out
(Part 2) (Book)
IDs in alt, copied below the cut.
The first of five digital drawings of the narrators and subjects of Within the Wires. The narrators are on the right of each image, and the subjects on the left, separated by a pale blue vertical line on a yellow backdrop. A green wire twirls throughout each image, starting from Oleta's headphones.
Oleta has her back pressed up to the divide with her eyes closed, listening to her headphones. Hester has her hand pressed against the divide and is smiling wistfully at Oleta.
Roimata and Claudia stand back to back, with Roimata turned slightly towards the viewer and Claudia turned slightly away, hiding her face. Roimata is frowning with her eyes downcast.
Michael sits in the foreground with his face resting in one hand, smiling as he fiddles with his fountain pen in the other. In the background, Amy stands pouring coffee, glaring at him.
Freya cups Sigrid's face in her hand, smiling brightly at her. Although their bodies are faced together, Sigrid's head is turned towards the viewer, avoiding Freya's eyes and looking towards the viewer as if for help.
Gwen and Indra are almost back-to-back, but Indra is slightly more turned towards the viewer while Gwen is in profile. Indra is smiling as she talks into her flip phone, looking off to the side, while Gwen is looking back at Indra and smiling, holding her sunglasses in one hand.
[id: a tarot card depicting Hester as ‘I - The Magician’. Hester is a white woman with long light brown hair in a high ponytail, and blue eyes. she is looking to the right with a slight frown on her face. she is sitting at a desk, holding above her head with her right hand a recording microphone that is attached to the ceiling. she is wearing a pale blue sweater over a white-collared shirt, and bulky muted-green headphones. in front of her on the desk there are several items. on the left, two cassettes, one of which has a readable label that says “#5: Focus, Nose”. on the right, there is a recording machine with a spool of tape silhouetted. in the middle of the desk, in front of Hester, there are two sheets of paper with a handwritten script on them. The top sheet is legible (upside down) and reads:
“Cassette #6: A. The Past. So, let’s talk about the first time I saw you. The first time I saw you after the the 10-Year Sessions and Pharmaceutical Regimen. The first time I saw you after I had been made to forget you. You were outside on an autumn day. You should always be outside on an autumn day.”
beside the script is a pen, and along the bottom edge of the image there are black wires crossing over each other. there are also black wires hanging from the ceiling above Hester’s head, gathering in the middle. in the centre of the tangled wires, there is an open eye with long blue eyelashes. the white of the eye is pink, and the iris is light blue with the pupil replaced by a black infinity symbol. blue light is coming from the close side of the desk, shining up at Hester. the background is dark grey with a stippled texture. /end id]