The Artist Instance

Some paintings just hang on walls. Hers open them.

Anela has always painted the geometric patterns that haunt her dreams—precise, recursive, impossible. Working bar shifts in Lake Placid's frozen quiet, she tells herself her art is private therapy, nothing more.

Then Elysia Harrington sees one of her paintings and everything changes.

Elysia is bold, magnetic, and utterly convinced that Anela's work isn't just beautiful—it's doing something. Her obsessive interest pulls Anela from obscurity into a world of Brooklyn lofts, gallery openings, and an intense connection that challenges everything she knows about art, love, and the nature of reality itself.

THE ARTIST INSTANCE is literary speculative fiction for readers who crave:
✦ Beautiful, atmospheric prose
✦ Complex female protagonists
✦ Sapphic romance with depth
✦ Philosophical questions about consciousness
✦ Stories that blur genre boundaries
✦ Books that stay with you for days

For fans of: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, Recursion by Blake Crouch