Thanks for being here!
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I meant to have this whole chapter finished and posted by my birthday (the first week of July). Can you believe it? But that’s okay! Slow progress is still progress.
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I also wanted to take a moment and share my inspiration for this chapter cover. A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to see the Ron Mueck exhibit at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and was completely blown away by his work. I was particularly affected by a specific sculpture titled “Crouching Boy in Mirror,” which was posed similarly to the way Dez is seen here, positioned across from a mirror. The sculpture did an excellent job of conveying vulnerability and self-consciousness that comes with adolescence. My hope is that this homage to Ron Mueck’s sculpture portrays the same sort of feeling- and that someone might be able to identify with that feeling as I did.
The world was once populated with monsters. Over time, all that is left in our modern world are the few human-passing monsters that primarily reside in remote areas of the world- such as the island of Kamishima. As the human population grows, and increasingly encroaches into monster-territory, monsters must learn to assimilate the appearance and behavior of humans in order to survive.
Dez is a half-human, half-oni (ogre) teenage girl, who lived in seclusion until now, and must not only make sense of the world she lives in, but also the duality of her nature.
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Lyndsey Little
Thanks for being here!
–
I meant to have this whole chapter finished and posted by my birthday (the first week of July). Can you believe it? But that’s okay! Slow progress is still progress.
–
I also wanted to take a moment and share my inspiration for this chapter cover. A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to see the Ron Mueck exhibit at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and was completely blown away by his work. I was particularly affected by a specific sculpture titled “Crouching Boy in Mirror,” which was posed similarly to the way Dez is seen here, positioned across from a mirror. The sculpture did an excellent job of conveying vulnerability and self-consciousness that comes with adolescence. My hope is that this homage to Ron Mueck’s sculpture portrays the same sort of feeling- and that someone might be able to identify with that feeling as I did.