The studio door is open

Stories you can enter. Images you can feel.

My favorite projects live between disciplines: a sketch becomes a place, a photograph becomes a mood, and one strange sentence becomes a whole new world.

Blue and purple cover art showing a silhouetted figure before an outstretched hand holding a gold coin.

Published speculative fiction2024

The Desire Broker

A hopeful speculative story about the feelings an abundant future might forget.

Concept-development sheet with line studies and a watercolor rendering of a tower in a green landscape.

Themed-entertainment concept workSelected work

Motiongate Dubai

Concept development and rendering for the DreamWorks Animation Zone at Motiongate Dubai.

A luminous watercolor clockwork portal with brass gears, floating hourglasses, and a winding path through time.

Story-world collaborationIn development

The Time Trials

An evolving, collaborative story world built around time, consequence, and impossible choices.

Abstract watercolor blooms in vivid pink, blue, green, violet, orange, and yellow.

A small-form writing practiceOngoing

Poetry &

Poems and tiny stories that use a prompt as a doorway into image, rhythm, and surprise.

A radiant watercolor sunrise over violet hills and a winding turquoise river.

Newsletter collaborationOngoing

The Positopian

A hopeful collection of resources, reflections, and stories co-created with Jonathan G. Chew.

A closer look

From pixels to places.

Selected process imagery from Mandy’s visual-development archive.

A film still beside Mandy's painterly Photoshop interpretation — Exploring how photographic reference can become a new visual language.

Po from Kung Fu Panda beside a translucent green concept rendering of a jade statue — Concept rendering for a themed-environment element at Motiongate Dubai.