Elizah Leigh, the Curatorial Creativity Connoisseur and Contributing Author at Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, wrote a beautiful article about my work for Quirky Fox.
I don’t see myself as somebody others might want to write—or read!—about. This might sound like an attempt at charming self-deprecation. It is not. I have turned being-all-over-the-place into an art form and I am caught in a perpetual not-there-yet stage—I need to become a better writer, a better artist, be a more interesting person before I can come out of my box and be noticed. I am not even sure I want to be noticed …
But … it was a pleasure to be interviewed by Elizah and the resulting article is quite wonderful. So here you go …
… the Germany-born, New Zealand-based artist has an insatiable appetite for learning and exploring. As such, she has found that engaging in all of the art – writing, drawing, painting, illustration, printmaking and sculpture – all of the time (!!) eliminates the ‘what ifs’, instead enabling her to manifest imaginatively conceived, joy-sparking whimsies …
In addition to penning a political-post-apocalypse-alternate-reality-dystopian-fantasy-adventure series, Minu Freitag continues to create various utterly charming three-dimensional anthropomorphic beings (plush creatures, wall dolls and free-standing totems) as well as two-dimensional graphite, ink and paint pieces, all of her dreamy entities an extension of the kind and hopeful soul-elevating magic
Other news
The first locally printed New Zealand edition of The Fragments is be available on my website. It looks amazing … if I say so myself.
New here? I write adult fantasy that sits somewhere between dystopia, post-apocalyptic fiction, and science fiction—complex, a little dark, unapologetically nerdy.
I’ve published two books in a trilogy called The Spheres—The Fragments (2022), The House (2025)—and am working on Book Three. If you enjoyed this post, why not sign up to my newsletter or get a free review copy?
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