Xiang Yata’s meticulous pencil work fills every page of this spellbinding book. Working as an animator and cartoonist for the past decade, Xiang Yata is constantly experimenting with page layouts, perspective, and media.
"Xiang Yata's delicate and haunting drawings deserve hours of attention. This is a beautiful phantom of a comic." - Carta Monir
Xiang Yata is an artist whose work consists of experimental explorations of media. Her published works include, The Ruby Mystery, Red and Green Girl, The Exploding World, and The Physical World.
Xiang Yata is a Chinese illustrator, cartoonist and animator. She attended the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts for high school and then the Beijing Film Academy for animation and film. While working as a professional animator, Yata has published a number of experimental works within the alternative comics scene in the US. Her longest and most famous book to date is Optometry (2023).