Sarnia de la Maré FRSA is a British author, journalist, and podcast director, founder of Tale Teller Club Press and creator of the Tale Teller podcast network.
A selection of digital artworks from The Book of Immersion by Sarnia de la Maré (iServalan).
This gallery collects motifs from the Immersion universe — AI, emotion, resistance, and hybrid identities — crafted for screen and print.
Each piece is part of an ongoing multimedia narrative (Strata & Volumes) and is available as prints and moving-image editions.
Songs Study in C Minor for Percussion and Piano Tale Teller Club • Study in C Minor for Percussion and Piano • 3:050 plays Self Hypnosis Slimming Music Therapy Choir Tale Teller Club • Self Hypnosis Slimming Music Therapy Choir • 40:2042 plays Trouble With Lovers Tale Teller Club • Trouble With Lovers • 3:417 plays Happiness Hynotics Tale Teller Club • Sadness Rains Happiness Therapy • 40:2418 plays Rife Vibes Anti Ageing Therapy Tale Teller Club • Rife Vibes Anti-Age Binaural Vegal Self Hypnosis • 31:3640 plays Anxiety and Stress Healing Rains Tale Teller Club • Anxiety and Stress Healing Rains Music Therapy • 33:0335 plays Death by Jazz Tale Teller Club • Death by Jazz • 3:5451 plays Black Jeans Tale Teller Club • Black Jeans • 3:4267 plays Headache Rains Music Therapy Tale Teller Club • Headache Rains Music Therapy • 27:0814 plays Healing Rains Tale Teller Club • Healing Rains • 9:4417 plays Calming Rain Choir with Piano Tale Teller Club • Music Therapy Choir Se...
You wake up in the morning You don’t know where you are You do a quick 360 Looks like you’re making art You’re Caught in a bubble ‘tween real and fake You’re never really sure Which ducker’s on the take It’s just life my friend But it’s the only one you get It’s just life my friend You only get one shot So you get up off the floor The sun is coming through You get these freaky feelings You don’t know what to do You’d better watch your back Cos bruises gonna hurt It’s gonna take a while for you To prove your worth. We’re all in the dark Just walking in the park The more you try It just gets worse The more you want The deeper the curse It’s just life my friend But it’s the only one you got Welcome to Immersion You Have Reached Strata 1 Renyke Wakes in the Alley (Purpose) Renyke's inner motors began to whirr. He had put himself into voluntary shutdown during the *dark-cycle in order to save power. From the start of his operational cycle, he had performed the necessary hou...
IMMERSION GLOSSARY Living language of the Anthropogenic–Digital world ableteen (noun) An extremely fast, high-tech solar-powered android designed for households. affect-interference (noun) System-level degradation that occurs when emotional variables contaminate an otherwise optimal machine procedure—delay, noise, priority inversion, and mission drift. Cadre term for the failure mode that emotion introduces; Mothers call it a defect; humans call it being alive. agitator (noun) A disruptor, protestor, or criminal. Agitator Resistance (noun phrase) A decentralised coalition of radicals, scholars, and defectors who opposed the tightening control of CASM in the early Midcast years. The movement’s core belief was that emotional integrity and creative dissent were essential to human survival in a mechanised age. Lidian and Honour were among its final leaders before the Rebellion’s collapse and subsequent Erasure Campaign. Though officially destroyed, fragme...
