dispatches from

sky city

by meghan esther giles

(2023 to currently still in progress)

lighter bright pink background with three differnt abstract flowers sort of 'dancing'' or posing. the one to the far left is different greens with two yellow petals and a green one, the middle is a egg yolk color center with darker pinky petals

heliotropiums, 2023

mixed media with paper; not for sale.

large round metal with a hand woven 'moon lichen' that is pink in the center, then green, then orange, then white, with some blue and purple for the large one sort of embracing the top left side of the metal with sculpted frayed edges + smaller 1

lasso the moon, 2024 (lichen 1)

salinated and handwoven moon lichen with found metal, mixed media; not for sale.

a sunflower at a neon sunset soaking up rain

sunflower after rain, 2024

pastel and pen with a test screen print of a band poster i illustrated back in 2010-2011 sometime with paper; not for sale.

a black and white detailed drawing of an armadillo facing east (to the left) in black tall grass, reflecting the neon sky, blue to purple to pink to orange to yellow from left to right

armadillo at sunset, 2025

pastel and pen with a test screen print of a band poster i illustrated back in 2010-2011 sometime with paper; not for sale.

canyon at night with soft light and a water runing through the sort of left middle to all of the bottom third of the portrait piece, a full moon like a cartoon egg with exposed yolk and a large circle sort of around the echo of the moon, stars

we bloomed at night so we opened like the milky way, desert nocturne, 2025

mixed media with canvas; not for sale.

billowy saturated colors on this landscape one, from top to bottom : light rose petal pink with stars, a thin white, baby blue, magenta ish, lavendar, orange fruit orange, kelly green, reddish orange, with the title and signature in bottom

twilight, the way home, 2025

mixed media with paper; not for sale.

a canyon at night landscape with three quarters of it mostly sky and all these sorta shiny blue purple to orange to red from left to right colorize

i love your canyon night time / to all the canyons i love, 2025

mixed media with canvas, not for sale.

cow skull with horns on a woodentable. the skull has constructed lichen as a sort of line that branches out toward the mouth down the middle and other dots throughout, pinkish earth colored with three different shades of green

i want to grow old with you, 2024

(lichen 2)

earth lichen with cow skull, mixed media; not for sale.

blue, purple, and kinda rainbowy background with lots of different layers of fluffy clouds covering the whole canvas. signature of artist is in the bottom left.

loving u from neptune : a postcard of sky, 2025

mixed media with canvas; not for sale.

a reddish adobe like background with a large moonflower bloom as a kind of full moon in the center with a horned lizard in front of the bloom with their tongue out

the decolonizer, 2025

mixed media with canvas; not for sale.

a large oval mirror with neon rainbow beadwork as lichen around the mirror edges under the mirror and the pearlescent side of oyster shells, and scaley lichen and criptobiotic human constructed scuplture around on the sort of wodden frame

i meant what i said, 2026 (lichen 3)

beach lichen and cryptobiotic soil with reclaimed mirror; mixed media, not for sale.

update : 2 septembre 2026 : reclaimed + reframed mirror*

black and white drawing of a close up magical flower with the galaxy in their petals and a wavy striped stalk blooming underneath the full moonlight

moon gazer’s lupus flower, 2025

ink with paper; not for sale.

circular polarid photo image of a metal bucket on the concrete with two broadsides and a art print on fire, in the process of turning into ash.

fuck ur mfa, earthwork 2026

ashes of broadsides my thesis chair “gifted” me of her own poems for my graduation ; located in my rent house back yard ; not for sale.

a large varigated light pink tulip textured canvas, horizontal rectangle, with different shades of pink and brown flowery etc shapes with the dark dark green font that reads, in cursive, "quit school" with a flower in the bottom right corner + my sig

love study 1, 2026

mixed media with canvas, not for sale.

circular polaroid image of a large rectangular desk decaying against the back fence wall, behins some trees, next to some in progress fence sculptures.

fuck ur phd, earthwork, 2026

decaying and heavy broken (literally taped together upon arrival, unbeknownst to me) desk i was '“gifted” from my dissertation chair around when i was graduating from my phd;; located in my rent house backyard; not for sale.

art piece i did of a dark black deep ocean with pink purple and multi colored beaded neon stringy plantlife

"ever since uve passed on, i so far tangibly miss you this much : new plant life discovered at the deepest ocean depths we know about, a field of glowing jelly moon orchids, for peter keltz," 2026

mixed media with canvas, not for sale.

terra cotta wavy bowl i made with the lichen as a kinf of internal rainbow in the bowl with the buffalo in the blue and purple area

"land back to earth : air back to air : water back to water, for the buffalo," 2024-2026

lichen 4, tinaja lichen with earth, reclaimed rainbow "monopoly money," and a reclaimed metal buffalo "monopoly game piece," not for sale.

black background, with a orangey brown full moon and clouds; a lilac mesquite tree and cacti and grass sproutlings; an open casket with neon pink and lilac stripes with "by meghan esther giles"; title in neon pink ooze letters big; spider and snake

"‘a final girl from raiderland,’ by meghan esther giles poster and book cover, dedicated to her late great friend dennis covington," 2026

book cover to a nonfiction book by the same title and author (flower house fall/winter 2026); mixed media with recycled paper; not for sale.