Ylena Rime — Copper Ox Dragon and the Lavender Prism

The story of Ylena Rime

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

Her copper coat carries fractured lavender patterns chosen for an architectural exhibition. Ylena makes temporary rooms for people deciding how they want to live together. She builds adjustable walls, generous doorways, and shelves that can be reached without balancing on a chair. Her favorite designs begin with a disagreement honestly stated.

The prism's room changes whenever she draws a plan beside it. A pantry becomes a workshop; a narrow hallway widens into a courtyard. Ylena initially assumes she has found an extraordinary design tool. Then a letter appears on the glass floor, asking her to stop moving the room's only door.

She writes an apology on a scrap of tracing paper and places it against the prism. By morning, the reply explains that the room belongs to a house still being imagined by someone far away. Her drawings have been arriving there as unexplained renovations. Both designers have mistaken the other's work for enchantment without an author.

Ylena arranges a slow correspondence using plans, arrows, and carefully labeled alternatives. The prism remains on her desk, no longer a private instrument. She has gained a collaborator whose address she cannot locate and whose habits she occasionally finds infuriating. Their first shared design includes two doors, each built only after the other person agrees.

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