Word & Image
On Monday, I posted my schedule for Context, the 32nd New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention, which is to be held in Auckland over this long weekend, 3-6 June.
One of my panels, at 2 pm on Sunday, is Word and Image with artist Frank Victoria and musician Donald Wolcott—a discussion on the creative relationship between writer and artist in speculative fiction, how the idea of the story is given effect through word and image—as well as how word and image spark off each other to generate new creations.
As part of that panel, I have put together a resource folder on the inter-relationship between word and image from the earliest beginnings of The Heir of Night story—which is also the inception of The Wall of Night series. The Word & Image folder includes material by artist Peter Fitzpatrick (Fitz to just about everyone) on how he took what I can only call my “hopeful hieroglyphics” and turned them into the interior map for The Wall of Night series.
Just for fun, Fitz has also done a Word & Image poster, featuring the red AU/NZ Heir cover, to accompany the folder. I like it so much I thought I’d give you all a sneak preview today—& if you like it too, post a comment: I’ll give the first 5 people to do so today an A4 copy signed by Fitz as artist and me as author.
Meanwhile, if you’re at the convention over this weekend, there’ll be flyers available as well. If you’re not attending, stay posted, as I’ll be reporting here on my highlights and any other fun that’s going down.
Hi Helen Catching up with you via blog..first of all congratulations on a year of posting…. I was fascinated by the picture/artists impression of your story…then I went To fitz website OMG what a talent.. some of his work is disturbing, evocative mindbuzzing stuff.. just what our human condition needs … to be stunned out of our autopliot state and start thinking again!!! Well I enjoyed it.. set my imagination going anyway. You are certainly swimming in imagaination and creative juices! And thank you for sharing truely inspiring..PS i am also enjoying
your poems too
love what you are doing…megan
Hey Megan—thank you for your comment and enthusiasm. And you are quite right about Fitz, he is an amazing talent and I am so thrilled that he has gotten the recognition he deserves as a finalist in the Sir julius Vogel Awards. And if you like the look of my website look no futher than Fitz again—he is definitely the party responsible for that as well!:) So glad you love the poems, too, as they are definitely a very important part of my creative life.
Sounds like fun! 🙂
I am very much looking forward to the weekend, including the musical collaboration events with Catherine Asaro and Donald Wolcott.
Really really hope to make it to this panel.
Hope I can.
Really like Fitz’s artwork.
I know Frank, Donald and I would all love to see you there, Jan!:)
Fitz is just an amazingly all round talented artist and I really want to do my bit to help the world to know his work, too.
I just love Fitz’s art work. I think Thrash and Trevor is my favorite 😀 I have no idea why Fitz isn’t enormously famous yet.
Wen—there’s so much good stuff, isn’t there? And I have no idea either re the fame, but I’m workin’ on it on his behalf. 😉
Have fun at the convention sounds like it will be a lot of fun. Looking forward to your blog on how it went.
Thanks, Jacqui.:)
The Word & Image poster is beautiful. Love it!
Have fun at the convention! 😀
Pretty cool. Hope everyone loves it at the convention. Although not sure how they cant.
I can now say that it seemed to be appreciated!:)