These figures represent beauty, strength, and balance. They are a rejection of subservience, and encourage a desire to be bold and courageous. This includes asserting our boundaries, speaking out against injustice, and standing up for those who need help. In these ways, these two figures act as guardians who Brave the Wind in the new year.
Anu Chouhan is a Canadian author and illustrator. As a trained animator with a career in game development, Anu often combines her love of her Punjabi heritage into her art, as well as pulling inspiration from folktales, anime, nature, and global fashion.
Upon completion of her Bachelor of Arts degree in media arts, Anu developed her skills to obtain her animation diploma. She is the author and illustrator of Hair Oil Magic, and she also illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of Whatever After: Fairest of All, and Aru Shah and the End of Time. Her unique, edgy, and energetic art has been featured by the CBC, the BBC, Harper’s Bazaar Bride India, The Times of India, and The Times of London.
Cinnabar & Lapis Lazuli
These figures represent beauty, strength, and balance. They are a rejection of subservience, and encourage a desire to be bold and courageous. This includes asserting our boundaries, speaking out against injustice, and standing up for those who need help. In these ways, these two figures act as guardians who Brave the Wind in the new year.
Anu Chouhan is a Canadian author and illustrator. As a trained animator with a career in game development, Anu often combines her love of her Punjabi heritage into her art, as well as pulling inspiration from folktales, anime, nature, and global fashion.
Upon completion of her Bachelor of Arts degree in media arts, Anu developed her skills to obtain her animation diploma. She is the author and illustrator of Hair Oil Magic, and she also illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of Whatever After: Fairest of All, and Aru Shah and the End of Time. Her unique, edgy, and energetic art has been featured by the CBC, the BBC, Harper’s Bazaar Bride India, The Times of India, and The Times of London.
The Lantern City is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.
