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A. A. Vacharat
Of most important news:
I have a novel coming out!!
Guess what! I have somehow managed to trick Penguin Random House into publishing my novel, THIS MOTH SAW BRIGHTNESS.
This book includes:
uncomfortable family relationships
government experimentation on children,
difficulties of neurodivergence,
harmful conspiracies,
and more.
It’s a comedy! Or at least funny peculiar.
Fun stuff
inside
…In all seriousness, I am super duper proud of this novel.
It’s the one thing I’ve made that feels like all of myself.
I am grateful to Dutton for making it into a book. I would be honored if you wanted to read it!
“vividly captures the dislocation of growing up … in a country awash in both conspiracy theories and genuine conspiracies.”
cracking up the nuts
cracking up the nuts
suspiciously
sincere
artist statement
When you look at a familiar thing in a slightly off way— at morning instead of night, simply from the other side of the couch—this perspective shift can trigger a cracking open of the nut of understanding.
Evolution from sight to insight.
As an artist, I aim to encourage this slower, more careful consideration of familiar subjects by toeing the line of strangeness. Call it whimsy, or absurdity, or the surreal.
I create characters and worlds that feel slightly, well, off.
In these not-quite-believable worlds, the not-quite-believable characters live through stories that encourage readers and viewers to question their familiar opinions.
Photo by S. C. Franklin
cracking up the nuts
cracking up the nuts
whoa, you’re still here? you have strange taste.
I like you.
other things:
Illustrations
cute.
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![Children's book illustration of a cute mouse sleeping in a cozy tree nest next to a record player. a ship passes under moonlight in the distance.]()
music dreams mouse
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![Loose illustration of an older white man eating a sandwich while a dog sits across from him at the table, looking plaintive]()
dog want sandwich
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![cute children's book illustration of an adorable mouse putting on boots and looking up at the sky as rain clouds roll in]()
rain soon comes
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![vibrant children's book illustration of a st bernard riding a motorcycle, leaping over a jogging fox]()
Lazy dogs can jump
i ♥
capitalism
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You might ask, “But Amanda, why would you paint fountain pens?” Or (if you are young, or willingly ignorant, or determined to depress me): “what is a fountain pen?”
maximum practical
paintings on fountain pens
In another life, or perhaps in two years, or maybe never, I want to have a stationery shop where I sell illustrated planner stickers (I do love a good plan).
For now, I have contented myself with this little store where I sell a handful of original art stickers, restored fountain pens, art, and whatever else I feel compelled to add (once, there was a vintage flashlight!)