Sea Sings At Night by Mimi Mondal (Illustrative Adaptation)
About the Project
Written by Mimi Mondal and published in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, “The Sea Sings at Night” is a love tale in an atypical Mumbai. This project is an illustrated and poetic reworking of the speculative science fiction story.
Through traditional ink illustrations, this adapted reinterpretation explores the short story through a surrealist visual approach. Blending elements of fantasy and reality, the illustrations emphasize on the character focalization of the unnamed protagonist to evoke the all-consuming love and tension in the story. The text in this book are all original excerpts from the short story. But the art plays with metaphorical imagery to tease out the poetic rhythms of the narrative that support Mondal’s speculative world brimming with alternative visions of love, status quo, and consequences of climate change.
This project was produced in 2022 as the adaptation project for LITT208: Genre undergraduate course at Krea University taught by Joya John.