Hi Alberto,
 
Never too busy to answer your questions.
 
The red links for pictures were meant only to illustrate something of 
what the characters might look like. They are (as I remember) images 
plucked from the internet and altered significantly in Photoshop, and 
they are not particularly important. Some of them may be photos of 
friends, but as I say, they should not be recognizable.
 
My interests, and most of my recent work, has been in archaeology. 
Although I've been to Australia I don't have any particular connection 
with Aboriginal art except that I like it and have a modern Aboriginal 
painting in my apartment in Paris. Since the story is about what at 
the time I considered a parodic history of the settlement of the 
Western Hemisphere, the subject is Aboriginal. It turns out that the 
idea may not be quite as far-fetched as I thought at the time. I may 
have borrowed some of the drawings from patterns on the internet, or I 
may have made some of them myself, I honestly don't remember now. All 
done in Photoshop, though.
 
The music, by the way, was composed and recorded by my late friend 
Allen Strange, who was a wonderful composer I worked with several times.
 
I would love to see your paper when done. I can read some Spanish 
(though my French is much better).
 
Good luck and thanks. Let me know if there's anything else you need.
 
best
 
Rob
 
 
 
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Rob Swigart
www.itzamna.net
http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/abouttime/
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/action/Search?kw=Swigart
 
On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:20 AM, <aliga@alumni.uv.es> wrote:
 
> DEar Mr Swigart,
>
> Let me introduce to myself. I am Alberto Iborra, a student of
> Universitat de València. I am doing a work based on your hypertext
> 'About Time' focused on TOOLS. I'd like to know something more about
> the tools that you used in making this text.
> For intance, behind the red-links there are pictures: are they
> important for the meaning? who is in these pictures? who is the author
> of them?
>
> And about the dotted draws : why have you chosen australian
> aboriginal art? are you involved with these people in any way? is 
> htere
> any author of these draws?
>
> I'll be delighted if you find a moment for answering my mail. The
> more information I'll have the better the paper can be. I imagine that
> you are a busy person as everybody nowaday but your answer would be
> very important to me.
>
> I'm looking forward to hearing from you as soon as you can... being
> supposed that you can.
>
> thanks and cheers
>
> p.s. sorry for my English, my lack of linguistic resources makes my
> English a little bit rude.I'm conscious that you are making me a huge
> favor, even if you don't answer my mail.
>