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From my lifelong project #findingcalais, in which I try my best to channel a little of the spirit of the Belle Époque: the ‘beautiful age’. For a few peaceful, touchingly optimistic decades (enough for electric bulbs to replace gas lamps, biplanes and airships to take to the skies, and the first women to get the vote) it seemed to the emerging fellowship of modern states that humanity was finally pulling out of the blinkered tumult of history as dignified, enlightened inheritors of millenia of cumulative development. Fittingly, the architecture of the Belle Époque and the great international expositions that defined it was a triumphant, misty-eyed celebration of the innumerable stories that had led up to it. The discipline and respect that designers and craftsmen of the time put into understanding and learning the traditions of their forebears showed a determination that lessons dearly bought would live on far into the future. For better or worse, modernity and two Great Wars would leave the dreams and ideals of this age in ruin.

Note: A 'Cara' is the closest Calaisii equivalent to a collegiate church, and may be considered quasi-hallowed ground. I'm probably not going to go too deep or specific into the spirituality of Calais, though. It's one of the things I'll like to leave people the space to project their own identities on. But there are 'services' in Caras, some celebratory, some grateful, some sentimental; and they do much to set the populace right with their knowledge of the overwhelming contingency of existence on Carentan. So Calais does get pretty spiritual — after a fashion that I'll leave pretty open.

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OOC: Hello everyone, please excuse my sudden flurry of posts! I apologise for not keeping up to date with posting on DA, and will do a better job of it from this point on. DA has been the place that saw me 'grow up' as an artist. Thank you, everyone, for joining me on this journey.

~~ Finding Calais is a steampunk, belle époque fantasy. It is full of airships, wonder, and whimsy, and supports the hope that the aesthetics we’ve inherited from the past will have a place in our future. I'll be picking at it for as long as I'm able to work (the goal's for it to sustain itself), so do follow the project if you connect with what you see. Thank you for viewing!

Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiang.pong/
Website: www.tiangpong.com/about-findin…
Store: www.redbubble.com/peop… )
Patreon: www.patreon.com/tiangpong
Facebook: www.facebook.com/findingcalais/

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Description
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From my lifelong project #findingcalais, in which I try my best to channel a little of the spirit of the Belle Époque: the ‘beautiful age’. For a few peaceful, touchingly optimistic decades (enough for electric bulbs to replace gas lamps, biplanes and airships to take to the skies, and the first women to get the vote) it seemed to the emerging fellowship of modern states that humanity was finally pulling out of the blinkered tumult of history as dignified, enlightened inheritors of millenia of cumulative development. Fittingly, the architecture of the Belle Époque and the great international expositions that defined it was a triumphant, misty-eyed celebration of the innumerable stories that had led up to it. The discipline and respect that designers and craftsmen of the time put into understanding and learning the traditions of their forebears showed a determination that lessons dearly bought would live on far into the future. For better or worse, modernity and two Great Wars would leave the dreams and ideals of this age in ruin.

Note: A 'Cara' is the closest Calaisii equivalent to a collegiate church, and may be considered quasi-hallowed ground. I'm probably not going to go too deep or specific into the spirituality of Calais, though. It's one of the things I'll like to leave people the space to project their own identities on. But there are 'services' in Caras, some celebratory, some grateful, some sentimental; and they do much to set the populace right with their knowledge of the overwhelming contingency of existence on Carentan. So Calais does get pretty spiritual — after a fashion that I'll leave pretty open.

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OOC: Hello everyone, please excuse my sudden flurry of posts! I apologise for not keeping up to date with posting on DA, and will do a better job of it from this point on. DA has been the place that saw me 'grow up' as an artist. Thank you, everyone, for joining me on this journey.

~~ Finding Calais is a steampunk, belle époque fantasy. It is full of airships, wonder, and whimsy, and supports the hope that the aesthetics we’ve inherited from the past will have a place in our future. I'll be picking at it for as long as I'm able to work (the goal's for it to sustain itself), so do follow the project if you connect with what you see. Thank you for viewing!

Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiang.pong/
Website: www.tiangpong.com/about-findin…
Store: www.redbubble.com/peop… )
Patreon: www.patreon.com/tiangpong
Facebook: www.facebook.com/findingcalais/

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