Ephameron: 'My work is always at the crossroads between literature, graphic arts, painting, comics'

About this episode

Ephameron discusses her graphic short story that explores themes of connection and distance through the lens of weather and artistic expression.

This Autumn series of podcasts has already brought us Helon Habila, Caroline Clark and Kasimma. We round it off with Ephameron and her graphic short story <cloud_update>. This enigmatic comic imagines a couple divided by distance but reaching for connection by talking about the weather. So when Ephameron joined us down the line from Antwerp, we began with an update on the skies. Clouds are endlessly fascinating, the author says, "A lot of painters have been interested in painting skies and how you do the textures right." In <cloud_update>, Ephameron uses watercolours, a technique she says she first adopted when she was travelling, pairing it with a font based on the video game Minecraft. "I'm an artist," she explains, "so I try and draw inspiration from a lot of different corners of the web." This broad vision, married with a background in fine arts and an ambition to tell "stories that are set in real life, that are talking about real issues", puts Ephameron's work firmly on the boundary between art and story. "I really want to push the borders," she says. That's all for this Autumn season. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Fictionable

Guest: Ephameron

Topics covered

• graphic arts
• literature
• comics
• connection
• real life stories
• artistic techniques

Keywords

• Ephameron
• graphic short story
• weather
• art
• comics
• watercolours
• real life issues

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Minecraft

Places: Antwerp

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