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Poet Pimone Triplett’s writing studio is a tree house of sorts: exposed beams, tin roof, chestnut and oak all over.

Photo by Victoria Lahti

A) Iconography
“Manora” is a Thai mythical figure (my mother is Thai, my father is Caucasian) who is half bird and half human. I identify with her hybrid quality, her unwillingness to be defined by one thing only.

B) Extended Family
This photo shows three generations of my mother’s family, including me at age three.

C) The Buddha
My mother would cringe to see it this way; a Buddha should always be positioned in the highest place in the room [we moved it for the shoot]. It keeps me mindful of a certain respect that is due, in the creation of art, to one’s sense of the past, even though I don’t profess to hold my mother’s specific beliefs. 

D) The View
This work space is new to me still, and I’ve yet to see the view after the leaves let go through these windows.