For a one-person fine art exhibit titled “Figures Of Speech” at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery Sue Clancy has written “I like to read books and possibly because I was a deaf child I have a fascination with language and figures of speech. So I enjoy creating animal characters and visually playing with words, phrases…

Odditerrarium is a fine art series of pet portraits, an artist book and a nonsense poem created by Sue Clancy About the fine art series Clancy says: “I began Odditerrarium, a new whimsical household surrealism series, because I wonder what may be on our dogs’ or cats’ minds. Would their mental lives reflect people, objects…

We all feel bad from time to time but how do we deal with these feelings? Do the ways we cope with emotional issues hurt us further or do they help us? Perhaps we need a new story. Over the years Dr. Bob Hoke, a psychiatrist, has created a series of therapeutic discussions devoted to…

A cow goes around the moon in a self-produced bubble of gas and somehow comes back to Earth in this wordless fable. Also, a farsighted bird forgets the morning sun song and in this wordless poem finds a way to read sheet music and welcome the day. It could be said that this book fits…

About the Book In this abecedarian art album, The Professional Dog, Sue Clancy shares handmade portraits she created of her friends’ dogs in alphabetical order by profession (job) along with an adjective (descriptive word) in a sentence about each dog. Clancy’s text and book concept are inspired by a 19th century word game called “The…