A childlike doll made out of folded dollar bills, roaches and drug bags; a butterfly resting atop cigarette butts shaped into flowers; and a rose stem sitting inside a crushed fizzy drinks can -- the illustrations in Reveries of a Lost Life Mask are full of juxtapositions and contradictions. Rendered in pencil and executed with a painstaking attention to detail they run alongside the words of American poet Franz Wright. The artist chose the poems that felt most personal and that worked with the feeling of the book. Renowned for intricately hand-drawn images that challenge conventions of beauty and are intertwined with autobiographical elements, Vancouver-born, New York-based Schmidt has exhibited worldwide. The work in this book is a visual expression of her own struggles with temptation, nature, health and love: flowers made of cigarettes or drug voodoo dolls that are scary but also sweet and full of love.