{"id":17296,"date":"2025-01-14T18:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=17296"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:22:01","slug":"episode-621-mia-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-621-mia-wolff","title":{"rendered":"Episode 621 – Mia Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 621:
\nMia Wolff<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Talent is almost irrelevant. It’s just work and being relentlessly focused. . . . Talent is like rain; does it go in the pot with the plant or does it go down the sewer?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With THE EMPTY LOT<\/a> (Fantagraphics Underground), artist Mia Wolff<\/a> brings together 100 paintings from more than 40 years of her oeuvre. We talk about how she found the thread & structure for the book, the patterns that emerged as she re-ordered the pieces and stitched them together with new illustrations, comics and prose pieces, and how you can make a joyride of a monograph by introducing your cat into the scene. We get into her dream of catspiders that inspired her for decades, the game of exquisite corpse she’s been playing with Jim Woodring<\/a>, and her history in art and side trips into a trapeze act with a circus and teaching martial arts. We also discuss the graphic novel she’s working on and how that art parallels her painting, why The Empty Lot<\/em> has an afterword in the form of a page-by-page tour-conversation with Samuel R. Delany<\/a>, her love of transparency & translucency and why her paintings of water are so magical, the tension of her pitch meeting with Gary Groth, and a lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read THE EMPTY LOT<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Think of yourself as a stained-glass window. That’s your karmic setup for this life. The light comes through; it’s the universe, God, Apollo, faeries, whatever you want to call it. That’s the Source. It comes through the stained-glass window and the image it projects, what you see, is what your art is.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n