David L. Laing

David L. Laing is a visionary self‐taught artist and writer currently living and working in Seattle, Washington. His works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pen and ink drawing have been exhibited in South America, the United States, and Europe. David expatriated in his early twenties and headed for South America with no money, in hopes of finding or founding a “New Paris for artists.” Two months later and thirty pounds lighter, he limped into São Paulo, Brazil, having traversed the entire continent overland, nearly ten thousand miles, surviving purely on his own wits and with the aid of a few helpful souls. David spent over fifteen years in Brazil writing, painting, and composing music. Since his return to the USA, David has focused on book publishing of his own novels, art books, and compilations of his articles. Solar Codex: A Light Odyssey and Notes from the Milky Way are the first two volumes in the quartet of Cosmic Adventure novels. At present, he is working on the other two novels to complete the quartet and is preparing for publication many new books of drawings, articles, dialogs, plays, and screenplays. All of David’s written work is lavishly illustrated with literally hundreds of drawings, all hand-inked by him.