Every time I pick up the book, I notice something new, some additional perspective, some subtle nuance. It is at once challenging and refreshing, brutally honest and full of immense grace. And it just looks so stunning on our shelves.

It creates beauty and meaning out of our complex history and opens the windows to our preferred futures. A beautiful marriage between scripture, scholarship, and well done design. In these dark and uncertain times, Clear Water lights the way.

I've been personally impacted by Melanie's work in person and I've had her work up in my professional spaces as what they communicate can both serve as conversation starters and make people who walk into my space feel safer and more seen. Every page of this book can serve as a study moment, a reflective moment, a moment of prayer, a meditation, a dialogue, or give space to facilitate healing and recovery. Having it all together in one book is a treasure.

Bold typography, thoughtful layouts, and a tactile quality to the printing that makes you slow down and feel what’s being said. Design can shape culture, challenge assumptions, and offer healing, and Melanie is doing exactly that.

Reading Melanie Walby's "Clear Water" feels like sitting in the sun with a friend who tells the truth. Part poetry, part personal essay, part visual meditation, it's somehow both minimal and maximal. Sharp as a paper cut and just as intimate.

Everyone and their mama and their grandma needs this book! Not only is it beautifully designed and enjoyable to read, but the lessons and visions for a just world that it offers to us sticks with you, long after reading.

Clear Water by Melanie Walby is a powerful, artful meditation on antiracism, grace, and spiritual reflection. Walby shares truth with clarity, offering rest, reflection, and radical empathy. This book is a welcomed space to breathe, recognize and fight the sometimes invisible systems around us, and resist, persist, and rest with intention.

The content is as beautiful as it is poignant, and it is even more timely today than when the base artwork was first crafted for the text.