

The meetings take place in one of these vast planes, with both men sitting at distant ends of a long, rectangular dining table, to eat and discuss their lives and work. The narrative of Zenith concerns two creatives, one a ceramicist and the other a glass blower, and their meetings within this Medemian landscape. There are certain key formal aspects to her style: a fine, clear-line for example, or a certain approach to colour and texture – but the unity of her style goes further than that: both her comics and commercial illustrations seem to occur in the same geographical place, a very distinct, ethereal location with vast mountainous planes and fluorescent, twilight colours stretching up in gradients in the sky. Maria Medem’s body of work seems to exist as a record of some alternative envisioned landscape.
