The Empty Lot Hardcover by Mia Wolff

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2024-09-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 9798875000164
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

The Empty Lot is a monograph of Mia Wolff’s astonishingly beautiful and accomplished paintings and a narrative of strange ecstasies amidst war.

The Empty Lot is a visually stunning roller coaster ride through the brain of Mia Wolff. It is a surreal and fascinating journey that begins with a dream that spills into the author’s local Brooklyn neighborhood and her favorite empty lot, which naturally serves as the portal to the demon on Canal St who we find just happening to be cavorting in a flood of blood. This monograph features Wolff's astonishingly beautiful and accomplished paintings and a fantastic narrative of strange ecstasies amidst war. With a conversation between the author and famed SF author, essayist, and memoirist Samuel R. Delany.

About the Author

Mia Wolff grew up drawing, reading, and climbing trees before arriving at Pratt Institute to study painting.  From there she joined the Big Apple Circus, subsequently going on the road with a three ring show as the catcher in a double trapeze act.  Returning to NYC, she went back to painting (wolffland.com) and making books (Catcher, Bread & Wine, Eye Feed). Her latest, The Empty Lot (2024), is a long monograph/graphic novel that is akin to an operatic roller coaster in paint and ink. She currently lives in Brooklyn.