AUTO ANTENNA: An Enchanted Guide to Santa Fe & Vague Blueprint to the Cosmos - Softcover

Craft, Stavo Mustang

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798988496007

Publisher: By The Muses Press, 2023

Synopsis

* 2026 CIBA Five-Round Finalist – International "Mind & Spirit" Book Award for Spirituality and Enlightenment *

A multiple Grand-Prize Gold Medal Award Winner, taking top spot in both the 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards for Visionary Fiction and the 2025 American Fiction Awards in the category of Inspirational Fiction, "Auto Antenna" is a pulp fiction memoir about art, personhood, and an Insider's Guide to Santa Fe. This hip metaphysical novella takes readers on a liberating journey with an unusually alluring and free-spirited adventurer on the verge of her sixth decade. She’s a mysterious transplant to Santa Fe who, it turns out, may not be from this world at all. From behind the wheel of a turquoise 1959 Ford Galaxie, she explores the unique mixture of art, magic, and spirituality as a lifestyle that has allowed a small town in the desert to become the third largest art market in the country. The atmospheric highs of the "City Different" deliver fertile terrain for anyone interested in artistic revelry, spiritual seeking, and the process of becoming a person.

Cybilline is a therapist for local artists, providing keen psychological insight and hilarity into issues of self-construction and perceived success. She expertly identifies the uses of imagination—not just for the purpose of artmaking, but how those same elements play a role in determining personal identity, and even destiny.

With poetic observations and charming fantasia, Auto Antenna is a Readers’ Favorite™ 2025 International Book Award Winner that offers a toolkit for creating a life of sustaining pleasures, purpose, and invention—all while remaining a timeless love letter to Santa Fe.

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HIGHLIGHTED EXTRACTS
"It’s about the way we stitch ourselves together with a little of this energy, a little of that experience, or this subtle influence, or that various half-belief. And always in our personalities, with visible loose threads dangling about, as we are always unfinished and in motion."

"Is the painting itself the staggering accomplishment or all the moments spent painting it? Isn't it, in the end, about creating a beautiful life?"

“I decided not fitting in was probably my thing, not a problem but an answer.”

About this title

About the Author

Born in New York City, Stavo Mustang Craft moved to Santa Fe after already having been a colorful figure in Williamsburg Brooklyn's art renaissance. His mother wrote media campaigns for the superhero personas of rock legends KISS in their formative years, which imbued his childhood with abiding ideas about using art for self-reinvention. Among his creations, Craft earned runner-up honors for Best Pop Album at the New Mexico Music Awards, co-wrote a stage play directed and choreographed by Tony winner Savion Glover for the Tribeca Theater Festival, and most recently, collaborated with art-world darlings Meow Wolf on a video installation project at their Convergence Station exhibition. "Auto Antenna" is Craft's first pulp fiction memoir.

Edition details

• Publisher: By The Muses Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798988496007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188