MONA LEE RAY

Mona Lee Ray is an artist and storyteller who has never been particularly good at staying in one medium.

Her work moves between writing, painting, movement, film, performance, and whatever else a story happens to demand of her.

Raised in a military family and accustomed to moving from place to place, Mona learned early to build worlds wherever she could find them. Art became less of a profession she chose and more of a first language—a way of making something tangible out of things that were otherwise difficult to name.

She began her creative career through movement and performance, eventually finding her way into film, storytelling, writing, and visual art. Over the years, those disciplines stopped feeling separate. A character might begin in a painting and end up in a book. A story might become an illustration. A feeling might become movement before it ever becomes words.

Her visual work lives somewhere between the beautiful and the unsettling: ravens, strange creatures, fractured figures, forgotten places, dreamscapes, and the occasional thing that probably followed her home.

She is particularly interested in the in-between—the space between beauty and decay, tenderness and violence, reality and imagination, who we were and whatever we are becoming.

Mona has spent more than a decade building a creative life across disciplines, including writing and publishing books, creating visual artwork, performing and directing for film, and teaching creative storytelling.

She still doesn't know what to put in the little box that asks for her occupation.

“Storyteller” seems to fit for now.

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