In some ways this week has been very difficult, and in others it has been very extraordinary, and the reason for the latter is art and artists.
I need to write something much longer and more involved about these feelings, because I am an inchoate swirl of them. In brief: I’ve been honoured and overjoyed to take part in two projects that have involved providing words for an artist to work with, and this week I got to see their art, and my joy boiled me away into vapour. I am now a cloud.
Today I can share some of it! Here’s a tiny peek of Shing Yin Khor and Jeeyon Shim’s Field Guide to Memory, which launches on Monday; my contribution’s the second image, a Glasgow-based beekeeper’s lament (including a message from her bees), but you can get a sense of the variety of objects and contributors to the project from the rest.
The interior art is by Isa Hanssen, and I’m still basically just aethered by the life and expression she’s breathed into my script. I can’t share that yet, but hope to have more about both these projects next week — there’s so much to say!
But in the interest of keeping this a Friday Open Thread, let me ask: who are some (living! working!) artists whose work utterly dazzles you? Whose work do you want to basically surround yourself with constantly because it makes you feel big-heart things?
Friday Open Thread (with Art & Artists)
Dear Friends,
In some ways this week has been very difficult, and in others it has been very extraordinary, and the reason for the latter is art and artists.
I need to write something much longer and more involved about these feelings, because I am an inchoate swirl of them. In brief: I’ve been honoured and overjoyed to take part in two projects that have involved providing words for an artist to work with, and this week I got to see their art, and my joy boiled me away into vapour. I am now a cloud.
Today I can share some of it! Here’s a tiny peek of Shing Yin Khor and Jeeyon Shim’s Field Guide to Memory, which launches on Monday; my contribution’s the second image, a Glasgow-based beekeeper’s lament (including a message from her bees), but you can get a sense of the variety of objects and contributors to the project from the rest.
February 4th 2021
5 Retweets65 LikesAnd second — I wrote an issue for Boom!Studios’ forthcoming Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters anthology! My story’s about Reynard, and the art has laid me out flat. Behold the main cover by Peach Momoko and variant by Dani Pendergast:
The interior art is by Isa Hanssen, and I’m still basically just aethered by the life and expression she’s breathed into my script. I can’t share that yet, but hope to have more about both these projects next week — there’s so much to say!
But in the interest of keeping this a Friday Open Thread, let me ask: who are some (living! working!) artists whose work utterly dazzles you? Whose work do you want to basically surround yourself with constantly because it makes you feel big-heart things?
Love,
Amal
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