Kim LeClair

Kim is a writer, improviser, and designer based in the Chicago suburbs. Her work ranges from interactive murder mystery shows to improv teaching to building websites for small businesses and creatives. A Small Myth came out of a quieter, more personal corner of her practice.

Process Note
Over twelve days between the winter solstice and the new year, I fed a few words from my early morning journaling practice into Midjourney — sometimes getting what I wanted on the first try, sometimes iterating until an image struck me.

Then I wrote back to each image - a small, sparse, condensed poem.

Prior images were used as tonal reference, so the visual world accumulated on its own. Afterward, I reordered the spreads and lightly edited the text to find the story that had been building. Then I made this video and companion storybook.

The whole process was an experiment in creating materials and then using those materials to create.