A R T I S T B O O K S
IMAGINING THE MACHINE THAT WILL LEAD ME TO SALT
April 2024 • 16 pages, handset type, illustrated with ten woodcuts. Case bound with stamped cover and custom end leaves.
The poem the book revolves around is a kind of autobiographical speculative fiction in the ecological sci-ci horror genre. It envisions a future based on the reality of my past queer, artistic, and medical histories. It considers the way that these histories get stifled, the possibilities for freedom in a watery afterlife, the effects of natural and machine environments on the body, and vice-versa: the effects of a polluted body on place. The design of the book reflects on the blue depths of the ocean, the silver of futuristic machines, and the red of sudden death.
MULTIPLE THINGS [TRUE ONCE]
[THINGS] CAN BE TRUE
AT ONCE [MULTIPLE THINGS]
December 2023 • Paper, string, conte, marker, staples, board
A construction of a safety blanket, an operating table, data organization...
Thoughts on gender-affirming top surgery organized in a way inspired by quilting and the Jaquard loom origins of punch cards, which were later used to make logorithmic tables. Information on each page relates to other pages, and can be read and refolded in any number of directions.
INTIMACY AND INTERNALISATION: LIQUID AND SHADOW
March 2023 • 5.5 x 8 inches • Velour, paper, yarn, beads, thread, stickers, reversible sequins, window clings, metal clasps, earrings
Video Flip-Through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv8fqfEozL8
An exploration of looking inside books and people through the lenses of asexuality and aromanticism. It’s a personal reflection on experiences of intimacy, as well as internalised feelings of distance, through the way sexual and romantic love are idealized in art and writing. It exists for readers to engage with the book as tactile and playful, while thinking about normalized perceptions of intimacy.
Intimacy and Internalization requires the reader to touch the pages to reveal more words and images. Opening and revealing each section of the book is a playful experience that relates to the assumptions, attachments, archetypes, and gestures that are being referenced in the text. As the book is flipped through and the sections are opened and resealed, it will gradually become more worn or damaged: the more it is touched, the more it gets destroyed. The intention for touch is also an intention for understanding that there are different kinds of touch, just as there are different kinds of love, and that it is not always beneficial to seek it out.
