Alena Lodkina

There Is No Such Thing as a Jellyfish

Alena Lodkina

Itohan Omoregbee, Etienne Iander

Hannah walks through the city, observing people and objects, searching for something, looking at delicious pastries. She is on her way to an appointment with a tarot reader and inside and house space unfolds like the walls of a dream, only to reveal a pair of rummaging thieves. Alone, Hannah is entering a mystery and the clues are sparse and uncertain. She floats like a jellyfish, but perhaps there is no such thing.

Strange Colours

Alena Lodkina

Kate Cheel, Daniel P. Jones

Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men escape society and share ideals of freedom. Soon, he doesn’t want her to leave. Stuck in time, father and daughter try to mend their fractured bond, but their connection is fragile, like the strange, colourful gems he digs up from the earth.

Plain Pleasures

Alena Lodkina

Emily longs for an expensive, exquisite silk dress. It’s silly to spend so much money on things, but what is life without plain ordinary pleasures?

Mercury

Alena Lodkina

Diving into dreams of transcendence, Argonautica, Jason and Medea, cruel love, big deity energy, mythical murderesses, possible worlds, open windows.

Lightning Ridge: The Land of Black Opals

Alena Lodkina

An insight into the lives of the miners who search for Australia’s famous black opals.