The Proud Is Like Leviathan.
By William Van Zyl Published on November 8, 2025 You will not believe the parallels between a dragon and a proud and haughty person. I list the features of the Continue Reading
There Must Be Something Behind It.
By William Van Zyl Published November 6, 2025 This article will show you a different world and will prompt you to think differently. Is it possible to think differently, you Continue Reading
Knocked Down.
By William Van Zyl Published November 4, 2025 Dear reader, I share my artwork with you at the end. “Not Defeated” The crowd roars, a wall of sound that shakes Continue Reading
Love Intelligently.
By William Van Zyl Published October 27, 2025. How can we love intelligently? The Message translation is Paul’s prayer for the Philippians that their love will “flourish and that you Continue Reading
No Horse Can.
By William Van Zyl Published on October 25, 2025 Can a Horse? The morning mist clings to the valley floor as two ancient armies face one another across a vast, Continue Reading
Navigation: Lessons from Captain Cook and The Endeavour.
By Wiliam Van Zyl Published October 19, 2025 It is the year 1776. The lantern swayed gently above the captain’s map room. The walls of The Endeavour creaked under the Continue Reading
Kauri Tree Stump Kept Alive for Years — Miraculously?
By William Van Zyl Published October 17, 2025 Can a tree stump live for centuries without leaves? Dear reader, what do you think? Is it possible? How will it survive? Continue Reading
Monarchs Escape Airbus.
By William Van Zyl Published October 16, 2025. A family of Monarch butterflies are on their way to the annual gathering in Imaru’s Aigantighe—a mystical valley hidden between mountain peaks Continue Reading
24601 Forever In The Night Sky.
By William Van Zyl Published October 2025 I share my newest painting with you. Valjean is imprisoned for years. Stealing a loaf of bread sent him to a life of Continue Reading
The Secret.
By William Van Zyl Published on October 7, 2025 I share my artwork with you, and a secret – wait for it. IMAGE: “ Man’s Candle.” Acrylic/oil paint/burlap with cold Continue Reading
Have You been Swallowed by a Constrictor Snake or a Roaring Lion?
By William Van Zyl Published on October 3, 2025. I want to share two of my recent artworks with you. Title One: “Light in the Darkness.” IMAGE: TITLE: Light in Continue Reading
A Case Study: How Jonathan Harper Orchestrated the Transformation of Zellanda.
By Wiliam Van Zyl Published on October 2, 2025. Why were Zellanda waiting? Every day, the inhabitants of Zellanda waited, waited, and waited. Nothing happened. Then, in 2025, Mr Harper Continue Reading
Needle-Creator Fashions A Tiny Humanoid
By William Van Zyl Published on October 2, 2025 The Boy Who Would Be Godilla It is the year 2025. This alarming article spreads like wildfire. Fourteen years after his Continue Reading
Light in the Darkness
By William Van Zyl – Published on October 1, 2025 Inside the Dark Belly—Suffocating A massive python loomed before her; its body coiled in menacing silence. The dark, diamond-patterned scales Continue Reading
The Boat, The Gold, And The Large Mouth.
By Wiliam Van ZylPublished September 26, 2025 A Quiet Boat on the Lake They lay quietly in the rowboat, its wooden hull creaking gently with the rhythm of the lake. Continue Reading
UNIQUE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES FROM MY SKETCHBOOK: THE BARBERSHOP, A VINTAGE RADIOGRAM, AND A NEW SLOT CAR SET.
First published on 23 March 2020 – Article by William Van Zyl. *Edited on 31 August 2025 (author added multi-media artwork). Copyright © William Van Zyl (2025). Pleasant childhood memories Continue Reading
“He Never Gave Me A Name.”
By William Van Zyl Published 18 August 2025 The year is 2051, and the air hums with the static of rebellion. In glass towers hidden beneath the Alps and forests Continue Reading
Small Beginnings – The Art of Storytelling.
By William Van Zyl Published 3 August 2025 The Story Begins. In the half-shadow of a 1970s New Zealand shed—its timber walls cluttered with rusted spanners, dented oil cans, and Continue Reading
Taped Mummy saved by a Silver WW2 Pocket Knife; rescued from the Wall of Death.
By William Van Zyl (September 2021) On November 3, 1977 – in the middle of the night – a taped mummy hung limply from a wall. The tape that held Continue Reading
Painting, painting on the Wall – Old, Gray and Wilde – is young Dorian, Dorian Gray, the Fairest of them all?
By William Van Zyl (Sept 2021) The dagger is lodged deep in the chest of the rather ugly-looking man. The older man is lying on the ground in a pool Continue Reading