The author in 5 lines
Dorothee Lang is a German writer and net artist. She is author of Masala Moments, a travel novel about India, and editor of the BluePrintReview, an online journal of unintended prose and poetry. Her work has recently appeared in Dicey Brown, eclectica, The Mississippi Review, Pindeldyboz, juked, Cautionary Tale and Hobart, among others. To see some of her latest pieces, visit her virtual gallery at blueprint21.de.

Current state of consciousness
There's so much going on in my life at the moment, some might say it is too much, all those places, India and Mallorca and Prague and London; all those people, day dreamers and time travellers and soul sisters; all those transformations, the unknown turning to familiar, strangers turning to friends, ideas tossed and lost and found again. Yet I feel like stretching myself beyond the borders just to see where the lines of too much start and end, just to try how far I can go, to see how far some dreams of life really are. And it feels like the further I go, the closer I get to the core of things, the closer I get to my self.

Maybe it is the call of all those dreams that need completion that wakes me in the early hours of the morning, that moves me to my desk, to fill the day with colours and words again, to send them out into space, into the world, colours of oceans and streets and skies. Some experienced myself, some experienced by others, shared in words and images, and now coming alive again on paper, on pages in the virtual web, in this space of pure imagination that is brought upon by connections faster than the speed of light, moving from the past to the present to the future in a blink of an eye ~

~ taking me back to the places I travelled to, all the way from here to the shores of Asia, to the streets of London and Prague and Paris, making me put together pages that treasure those moments, poems that capture moods and motions, images induced by web challenges, gathered in oil on copper, short stories of airport encounters, travelogues of temple dreams, instants that form a blueprint in time, and eventually, making me write a travel novel on India, to collect the tales, myths and travel fables I encountered there, during all those Masala Moments.

~ letting me send out calls for submission into the web, and collect the waves of words in prose and poetry that return online in the BluePrintReview, and add a collaberate blog, the e-literal counterpart to an internation cafe, in just a moment. And now, for the first time, crossing the line from web to print, in the BluePrintReview theme issue #1: the mo(nu)ment issue.

This need to strive, to express, to create, to share, to live, it is so strong that it almost feels induced by the magnetism all those e-possibilities hold, and at the same time it feels simply natural, feels like the only thing to do, as if all the words and pictures already had been waiting somewhere to be found, like dreams waiting to come true.

D.

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Contributions to Sage of Consciousness:
This endless cycle - essay - Issue 2/2: Death and Super Natural - the Afterlife
Tune of dawn - photo - Issue 2/1: Musical Voices
Les Hautes Alpes - travelogue - Issue 1 /3: Resonating Places
Floodland - short story - Issue 1/2: Tremors of the Heart

Lately published
city1234567 - photo series - published in Dicey Brown
aquarius - poem - published in eclectica
words lick, yellow wet - a definition of the literary now - published in The Mississippi Review
Postcard from Naples, FL - a road note - published in The Suitcase Generation
(Now You) - a wish list - published in juked
Iceland - a short story - published in Hobart Firsts & Lasts issue
only choice - a flash movie - published in rumble
US, observed - a short story - published in Pindeldyboz
The Sky Trolley Men - a short story - published in Spoiled Ink
an extended list of publications can be found here

Links:
blueprint21.de - author homepage
Masala Moments - travel novel
oil on copper - web art challenge blog
BluePrintReview - experimental e-magazine
mo(nu)ment - first print issue of the BluePrintReview
just a moment - tunes of time in a collaborate blog