Illustrations I was commissioned to create for various issues of adda between 2021 and 2023. adda is an online literary magazine of new writing by the Commonwealth Foundation, publishing poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction by writers across the globe.
For poems titled Rumah Ibu and The Riot, The Bodhisatvva by May Chong. Issue 4 of Speak Out! by adda, featuring works by writers responding to the theme of Freedom of Expression. Curated by Rifat Munim.
For Brenda Lee-Browne’s editorial for Speak Out! Issue 3, featuring works by writers responding to the theme of Freedom of Expression.
For a short story written by Rolli, issue 3 of Speak Out!, featuring works by writers responding to the theme of Freedom of Expression.
For Sonya Moor’s piece, Lettre a Simone, exploring gender, freedom and the legacy of a photograph (La Tondue de Chartres- Shaved Woman of Chartres by Robert Capa) long after its taking. The illustration is made up of monoprinted textures, photographs of textured walls, digital drawing and collaged photos by Robert Capa, shortly taken after the liberation of France from German occupation. Simone Touseau, whom Moor’s letter is addressed to, walks shaved and branded (as many French women suspected of having sexual relations with German armed forces were) towards incarceration.
For a short story titled The Testament of Professor Roolvink by Wan Nor Azriq, translated from Malay to English by Ali Aiman Mazwin, for adda’s second issue of Translations: South & South East Asia.
Illustration accompanying two poems by Sarmad Sehbai, for adda’s second issue of Translations: South & South East Asia. The imagery is based on his poem Some Days, translated from Urdu to English by Umair Kazi