I’ve been interested in doing a market that is Christmas-themed and it has inspired these products. I also thrifted some items from local thrift shops that called out to me as the kind of jolly I want to promote (not pictured).
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Create a list of stories I wanna write
Gather books related to the themes
Do an active reading process
Create a lyrical essay outline with a strong problem statement
Discover ways to find the statue in the marble
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This red blocky rendering closely resembles a traditional East Asian seal script character (篆書, zhuànshū), specifically framed within a square border like a red ink chop stamp (印章, yìnzhāng).
The specific character structure is a stylized version of 園 (or 园 in simplified form), which means garden, park, or orchard:
* Outer Enclosure: The outer square frame corresponds to the outer radical 囗 (wéi or enclosure).
* Inner Components: The internal horizontal bar and vertical drops evoke the traditional seal form of the inner radical (袁), composed of components like 土 (earth/soil) and 衣 (clothing/garment) stacked vertically within the boundary.
Visually, it also carries striking visual parallels to:
* Pixel Art / 8-Bit Retro Graphics: The uniform square-grid strokes made with a thick marker look like low-resolution digital characters or arcade game icons.
* Hollow/Geometric Maze Designs: The interlocking right-angled passages mimic a classic circuit diagram or geometric labyrinth.
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Here’s my latest zine in printerspreads
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8/29
dream Fifullijg a challenge ona. Residency by attempting a term paper with riddles props, paid assistants on a plane, mysterious offerings 3 parts 6 pages each involves cracked pepper, Brennan Lee Mulligan level of production. He is one of the professors. You attempt to do this only once. With a self selected cohort. I decided to go for it in the first cohort .
Writing down any possible clues 6images left to right
8/31
Something about coordinating cash prizes two types – separate dream, summer camp hide and seek challenge, not liking the feeling of opposition, the option to hike far away as a method of winning
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Book Notes
Workcited
Balasubramanian, Janani, and Natalie Gosnell. Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration. University of California Press, 2026.
Daichendt, G. James. Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research. Intellect Books, 2012.
Havens, Earle. Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2001.
Jury, David, and Peter Rutledge Koch, editors. Book Art Object 2: Second Catalogue of the Codex Foundation Biennial International Book Exhibition and Symposium, Berkeley, 2011. Codex Foundation, 2013.
Book Arts is a big book featuring high quality pictures of innovative printing/odd sizes, boxes, paper techniques, etc. My favorite was superimposed images with bright cmyk of couples- Ines von Ketelhodt
Artist Scholar is about research and practice. I really appreciate the distinction between knowledge and understanding. I liked the idea of an education program for higher education in the arts because MFA is for college and under, but what’s above? Also the idea of the option to submit your dissertation in an art format. I appreciated the pathways of research questions and literature review.
Art Science. This book highlighted the unique energy of academia and the issues of undisciplining and how that a shift has to occur to make art science collaborations easier to develop and be accepted in the institutions.
Common place is a survey of the traditional heritage of using commonplace books to write down notes, memories, ideas, snippets of poems, quotes, etc. I really appreciated the idea of florilegia, the idea of a book about all the flowers I have personally met. I can appreciate the idea of a flower as a reminder to write down what my life is like and what I’m thinking about, but also as a way to pay homage to a flower’s unexpected and pleasant presence in my life. I really like seeing people’s notes and handwriting and diagrams and doodles. I’m looking forward to making a zine about my latest sketchbook.
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I am interested in opening up your mind and body by facilitating durational exercises that release you from your current programming.
The first prompt is to create a square of tape. Seven by seven feet. On the floor.
You are allowed three objects. Plus a writing device.
We call this Square Time.
You will start with thirty minutes. Your assigned witness will keep the time.
The witness is important. Someone has to know how long you’ve been there.
I am interested in hearing your story. And helping you become free from the lies you tell yourself.
I will ask you questions about your story until we have found a primal lie that we can dissolve.
Not destroy.
Dissolve.
The next prompt is to create a rectangle on the floor. Ten by five feet. Put two chairs inside it.
One for me.
One for you.
A witness will keep the timer for sixty minutes.
I will focus on you by hearing your story. I will ask questions until we find the primal lie.
And then we will repeat its opposite.
The truth.
Ten to thirty times.
Sometimes repetition is a door.
Sometimes repetition is just repetition.
You have to stay long enough to find out.
I am interested in reminding you of your soul’s connection to the earth.
To nature.
To place.
For me, it is the rolling hills of Ireland.
The cliffs.
The details.
The particular shapes of things.
The way a place can enter the body without words.
These details of home comfort me.
They give me strength.
I will go into every detail possible.
And afterward, I am changed.
This is the strange thing about remembering a place.
You think you are remembering the place.
But the place is also remembering you.
The prompt is to write about your place.
Everyone, take out your writing devices.
We will spend thirty minutes on this endeavor.
I will put the prompt here:
Brain dump of your soul’s resonance to place.
Memory of place.
Every detail you can muster.
Any story.
Keep going.
Fragments are welcome.
Drawings are welcome.
Feelings.
Ways of getting at it indirectly.
A smell.
A cliff.
A room.
The particular sound of a door closing somewhere far away.
You don’t have to know what it means.
You don’t have to make it beautiful.
You don’t even have to understand it.
Just keep going.
We are looking for the place underneath the place.
The memory underneath the memory.
The thing you knew before you knew that you knew it.
Thirty minutes.
Your witness will keep the time.
And when the time is over—
we will see what is left.
