Halle Ostrander

Halle Ostrander drew. On the Federation's contact survey of Prismere, the survey whose two preliminary species reports described the Prismeri as two peoples a local year apart, Ostrander made three plates of them from life in ink and watercolour, and kept the first two as they were drawn after the kinship records showed that both reports described one people at two points in one life. The third plate was redrawn to show the two forms together, at one scale and from one ledge.

Known History

• On the contact survey of Prismere: drew the First Wings and Full Wings plates for the two preliminary reports, from below and with the people's consent.
• After the kinship finding: redrew the third plate as the two forms of one people, with a study of the closed shell of the Second Emergence, and circulated the plates with the revised species report as Plates of the Prismeri.
• Later: worked the sheets up into finished paintings in oil on panel, at true scale and in Prismere's own light; the Archive's Prismeri entry carries those, one after each sheet.

Character Notes

Ostrander keeps the mistake on the paper rather than redrawing it away, writes no word on a sheet, and says plainly what the plates cannot tell: the trigger of the Emergence, and the Lattice, which Ostrander cannot see.

The record holds nothing of Ostrander beyond the plates and the paintings worked up from them: no species stated, no birth, no origin, no posting before or after Prismere, and no date for the survey beyond its being the Federation's first full survey of the world.

See also

• Plates of the Prismeri
• Prismeri
• Prismere