According to Hou, the mirrors play a central role to his reading of the exhibition because their reflections expose the fact that “our complicity with the "art-object-becoming-social" is embellished with personal vanity in our complicity with the "viewer-becoming-more-beautiful".” The exhibition functions as a spatial poem, where the movements of any viewer may write another passage. "Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect." is a collection of writings by La Melia that contains writings, scripts, plays, poems, experimental prose, and other forms of creative texts spanning back to the artist's early career in 2005. The text was originally published in 2016 as "Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect. Selected Writings 2005-2015" by Publication Studio in Vancouver, but was republished in 2018 by Blank Cheque Press with additional texts and an updated forward by the artist. The texts in "Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect." reference the La Melia’s interests which include Hollywood cinema, literature, costume history, and insect anatomy. La Melia exercises her nuances understanding of dialects between language and vibration, emotions and signifiers. "Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect". expresses the texture of speaking, the vibration of meaning, and the pulses of language. "The Eyelash and the Monochrome" is La Melia’s first major collection of poetry, published in 2018 by Talonbooks in Vancouver. This book shares a title with the 2014 exhibition at the Mercer Union Gallery in Toronto. The title of the text describes an image of writer’s block that plagued La Melia during the process of writing a text to accompany her 2013 exhibition entitled ‘"Lot"’ in Vancouver. The title evokes the image of an empty document on a computer screen, the only content is the blinking cursor. This cursor, which La Melia imagines as being the length of an eyelash, ‘blinks’ endlessly and repetitiously until it becomes the taunting wink of the computer itself. The collection of poems evokes this image by weaving together various forms of writing that may not traditionally be considered to amalgamate into a cohesive literary structure. However, the book gathers poems, performative texts, images, illustrations, and parallel texts. "The Eyelash and the Monochrome" is a genre defying text that functions both as a collection of poetry as well as an artist book. La Melia was selected as the national winner above fourteen other finalists of the 16th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition, a title which is also accompanied by $25 000 purchase prize of her artwork.