Arise and blossom: a 2016 art sampler
Encouraged by friends, I put together a little look back at some of my favorite/major pieces from last year. These illustrations were done in 2015, but published only last year, as interior art for AN...
View ArticleTidepool
A work in progress: commissioned calligraphy painting, which I’m currently working on with watercolor and lots of waiting for layers to dry. I love doing calligraphy paintings and I’m going to be...
View ArticleContinuum 13 Guest of Honor speech – text
Note: I delivered this in Melbourne on 10 June 2017 as the Guest of Honour at Continuum 13. The convention committee has also shared the video of my speech and the question & answer portion that...
View ArticleContinuum 13 Con Report, part 1
I was a guest of honour for Continuum 13 and it was fantastic! Here is an overview that I wrote mostly for myself, so I wouldn’t forget things, but I hope you like reading it too! I’m posting it even...
View ArticleInktober 2017: crimson flowers, cerulean waves
This post exists thanks to my wonderful patrons at Patreon, whose presence has strengthened me enough to keep me going with art. I’m doing Inktober this month — I’ve been posting on my Instagram....
View ArticleSacred simplicity
Once upon a time, in a land beloved by the sun, there lived a girl with the scar of fire on her cheek. One day she met a girl with eyes like sea and storm, who said to her, “Come away with me, and we...
View ArticleThe darkness of the womb
I should remember to rewatch this video when I feel myself flagging; when exhaustion and despair take over. Yes Rabbi, the future is dark, on this watch night, I close my eyes and I see the darkness of...
View ArticleMake them endure, give them space
From Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver— The Great Khan’s atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought but not yet discovered or founded: New...
View ArticleSmall acts of revolution
Today I woke up and simply could not. Today, living in my skin — my scarred brown skin that took me years to accept, my skin that I spent my childhood desperately trying to lighten, my skin that...
View ArticleOn Verity La and ‘About Lin’ by Stuart Cooke – some receipts
aka, second verse, same as the first. I wrote this over a month ago, but didn’t post because I felt it wasn’t polished enough. I’ve decided to go ahead and post it now, anyway, as a kind of point of...
View ArticleReposting as a reminder to self
I wrote this almost five years ago; it disappeared from the web when I had to take my writing down for safety reasons. These days– well, the safety concerns are still there, but I feel stable enough...
View ArticleThe open hand
The landscape of mourning has changed in this time of pandemic, and yet it somehow remains the same. Those times I have encountered death it has been the most silent place — where speech ends and the...
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