The above images are a sample from Maeve’s upcoming project; a graphic novel/zine created in July and August 2023 at Montemero Art Residency in Pulpí, Spain. During their two-month stay, Maeve worked on a book project (as yet untitled) that combines landscape imagery with a quest narrative. The main character sets off into the desert after his hands begin to disappear; he hopes that the land—and some literate but deliberately unhelpful birds—will show him how he can relate to his body, and how he might help it heal. The project combines linocut printing and collage, and uses landscape as a method of externalizing the human body.
Over the course of 60 pages, it asks us to reconsider our own physical form: Should we strive to be in control of our bodies? Should we expect to understand them? And, perhaps most importantly, what does it really mean for them to disappear?