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

by Alethea Hall 

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Myth & Infrastructure



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.
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.

Explore The Work
Abram Haynes Italian Boots Poetry

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Infinitely Yours
Alethea Hall Shadow Poetry

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Myth & Infrastructure
Amy Barnes Pyre Prose

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Infinitely Yours
Ashlea Washington Little Lady Poetry

inspired by Rennie Harri/Puremovement - Nuttin’ But a Word
Camden Andrade A Bundle of Dust Prose

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Infinitely Yours
Jacob Proctor Rennie Harris Pure Movement
Is The Next Step Prose

inspired by Rennie Harris/Puremovement Nuttin’ But a Word
Julia Creson Rate of Death Poetry

inspired by Rennie Harris/Puremovement - Nuttin’ But a Word
Rachel Ebio The Origin of Shadow Woman Poetry

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Infinitely Yours
Sheerea Yu Justice at work Poetry

inspired by Rennie Harris/Puremovement - Nuttin’ But a Word
Valentina Quintero Creation Equals Destruction Poetry

inspired by Miwa Matreyek - Myth & Infrastructure