So who is Zee? I think she's an interesting idea.

What happens if you take a person and set out to remove them from the labels that we often use to define humanity? First of all, this girl has been genetically altered - not in a fixed way, either. She doesn't bear the constraints of normal people - the need for a particular mix of chemicals in the atmosphere or in food... 

Then, she's been removed from a human social context - raised among living beings who don't even see the world in the same colours that Zee does. She inherits a range of unconventional attitudes. 

And lastly, the idea that a human is a body that houses a single consciousness - we're taking that and altering that, too. Zee is now a house for two distinct identities, one very peculiar one. And yet what's left is still, I think, very relatable and very human. 

There again I could have it all back to front. Perhaps the human experience is all about the things that distort our identities... :)

How does this work?

This is a repository for a loose collection of ideas. In a couple of respects it's a gnostic blog. It's a place to put art and science fiction writing. And it will become an attempt to document a sort of meme I conceived of long ago and that has never quite been forgotten.
As it happens, it'll also become (I hope!) a fun place to look at and discuss art and writing. Anyone who wants to write their own personal stories on here has but to ask, and anyone who wants to write about Zee's world can think of it as a sort of creative commons or starting point for their own journeys.

As a young person I was fascinated with the imaginative brain - how the human mind creates personalities, and events, and entire worlds, and how these worlds seem to 'push back' at their creators sometimes. Plenty of authors have noted that the character they meant to kill off in book one of their adventure series is somehow still alive at the end of book 4 and counting; similarly, because the circumstances of an imagining are inspired by the life of the writer's mind, that imagining can provide insight into the writer or even, conceivably, change the writer's own behaviours and perceptions.

Zee is a character, an avatar and almost an archetype. Sick of the standard 'Mary Sue' personalities I keep seeing in internet fiction, I want to instead document a world that's become quite lively over the years, but to recast it more obviously as a personal memoir or journey. Instead of hiding behind a character or setting, I hope to use it to bring my own life philosophy into relief in a way that I'm shy to disclose otherwise. When you look at a portrait of her (or someone like her), you implicitly look at a refracted portrait of me.