Haunting and atmospheric, Vignettes is a collection of 15 short stories in the gothic tradition. I wrote, illustrated, designed and bound Vignettes for my MA.
To tell a story is always to invoke ghosts, to open a space through which something other returns…
All stories are, more or less, ghost stories. (Julian Wolfreys)
To form an image is always to shape ghosts, to create an impression or a reception of something else. Art and fiction are always hauntological, neither dead nor alive.
My vignettes are about the ways in which an idealised version of the past haunts our presence and our reality.
Read the beginnings of three of the stories from Vignettes here:
vignette: viːˈnjɛt,vɪ-/
noun
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a brief evocative description, account, or episode.
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a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.
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a small ornamental design filling a space in a book or carving, typically based on foliage.late Middle English (in sense 3 of the noun; also as an architectural term denoting a carved representation of a vine): from French, diminutive of vigne ‘vine’.
Snowstorm, illustration from Vignettes
Vines, illustration from Vignettes
Vines II, illustration from Vignettes
Witches, illustration from Vignettes
House, illustration from Vignettes
Dinosaur, illustration from Vignettes
Vaulting, illustration from Vignettes
Corridor I, illustration from Vignettes
Angel, illustration from Vignettes
The Old Tree, illustration from Vignettes
The Dark Tree, illustration from Vignettes
The Séance, illustration from Vignettes
Storm at Sea, illustration from Vignettes
Branches, illustration from Vignettes
The Dark Moor, illustration from Vignettes
The Street in the Mist, illustration from Vignettes
The Wanderer, illustration from Vignettes
The Séance II, illustration from Vignettes
Night, illustration from Vignettes
Snowy Forest, illustration from Vignettes
Night Road, illustration from Vignettes
The Moor, illustration from Vignettes
The Gallows, illustration from Vignettes
The Far Mountains, illustration from Vignettes
The Chapel, illustration from Vignettes
The Castle, illustration from Vignettes
Sunset, illustration from Vignettes
Fossil, illustration from Vignettes
Snowy Sky, illustration from Vignettes
Night Ship, illustration from Vignettes
Yasmeen Khan 