Photo: Tiffany Bessire

I was struck by the way Miwa Matreyek used collage and her own body to build mythology around city spaces. I wanted to do something similar and create a simple, surreal mythology describing my own connection to cities. I decided to create it as a scrolling comic to mimic the flowing, cinematic quality in Matreyek’s work. 

Shadow

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Myth & Infrastructure

by Alethea Hall 

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Myth & Infrastructure



About 
Alethea Hall
While I have been doing graphic design for small businesses and nonprofits for 10 years, my first love is storytelling. I love creating comics and other works that marry or blur the line between visual art and writing. I’ve done work for April Gloaming Press, Parnassus Books, Left Bank Artists, and The Porch, among others.
OZ Arts Nashville presents Art Wire: an ongoing collaboration between OZ Arts and The Porch in which 10 writers attend the OZ Arts performance season and respond to the presentations through original writing that is personal, playful, and deeply engaged. The OZ Arts 2019-2020 season offers each Art Wire Fellow a diverse array of inspiration, including innovative Japanese dance artist Hiroaki Umeda; a genre-bending presentation of Frankenstein by Chicago-based company Manual Cinema; and two emotionally raw works with Nashville's own professional dance company, New Dialect, just to name a few.

Explore The Work
Sally Amkoa The Chase Prose

In response to Rome & Jewels
Ami` Hanna-Huff Come and Gather Poetry

In response to Food
Kyoko Eng Birds on a Wire Poetry

In response to Food
Aaron Shapiro Exit Pursued by Lunch Poetry

In response to Food
JR Robles Lucide Poetry

In response to Rave Lucid
Asif ElAmri-Brantley Human Nature Poetry

In response to Rave Lucid
Isa Aguilera Teeth Poetry

In response to Black Hole
Nat Martinez-White unease/ecstasy Poetry

In response to Black Hole
Asif ElAmri-Brantley MENYOU Poetry

In response to Food
Sarah Page-McCaw Why Don’t We Do It in the Road Essay

In response to Food
Aaron Shapiro A Snowball in My Pocket Poetry

In response to Song of the North