July 2007

The Tai Chi of the Female Elements
by Amy Harlib

Amy Harlib is a 50-something lifelong avid reader of SF and fantasy literature and graphic novels—retired with plenty of time to indulge in her passion for genre illustration, reading, and cinema. She lives in New York City and welcomes intelligent feedback and discussion about the genre. Other enthusiasms include cats, archeology/anthropology/paleontology, folklore and mythology, genre films, science for intelligent laypersons, and memoirs/narratives as literature.

The name of her illustration, The Tai Chi of the Female Elements, refers to Chinese lore in which the five elements are Earth, Wood, Fire, Water and Metal—Water and Wood being female and herein interacting in a yin/yang relationship.