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 followed.
Author Archives: Mia
Tidepool
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 trying a few new things with this one, so it’s really fun! (Full size.)
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.
Ink and watercolor; cover art for THE TERRACOTTA BRIDE by Zen Cho. Yonghua, the flowers of the dead, and Hell.
Ink and watercolor. A personal piece I entered as a submission into a little event RedBubble was running, aka my “brown women can be fairies too, eff you”.
Gouache and watercolor, cover art commissioned by GlitterShip for its first-year anthology. Genderqueer sea deity, galaxies, and volcanoes.
“Sigasig”, cover art for Lackington’s issue 10: GOVERNMENTS. Ink and watercolor. The text is taken from Tagalog translations of EL FILIBUSTERISMO by Jose Rizal.
Ink and watercolor, cover art for THE LILIES OF DAWN by Vanessa Fogg. Sunrise, supernatural cranes, and a lake brimful with lilies and light.
Watercolor. Private commission for a wedding gift for Rose Lemberg and Bogi Takács.
Cover art for MYRIAD LANDS volume 1, published by Guardbridge Books. Ink and watercolor.
Cover art for MYRIAD LANDS volume 2, published by Guardbridge Books. Ink and watercolor.
Ink, gouache and watercolor, cover art for THE TOWERS, THE MOON by Andrea K Höst.
These illustrations were done in 2015, but published only last year, as interior art for AN ALPHABET OF EMBERS, ed. Rose Lemberg. They’re ink on paper.
The title of this post is from the Tenth Duino Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell:
Let not even one of the clearly-struck hammers of my heart
fail to sound because of a slack, a doubtful,
or a broken string. Let my joyfully streaming face
make me more radiant; let my hidden weeping arise
and blossom.