Writing
Three forms of attention
Making records what the hands discover. Research follows an argument. Poetry lets language become material in its own right.
Three forms of writing
Notes from making. Arguments from research. Language as work.
Touch
A poem of skin, love, the violin, and the limits of knowing desire.
Read poem →Starfire at Twenty-Three
A poem of imitation, smoke, first fire, and the people who like it.
Read poem →A Civilization of Blood
A short poem on pain, bleeding, empathy, and force.
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Language and Ash
A poem on cigar ash, former kings, and the afterimage of fire.
Read poem →Near Mountains
A poem of mountains too near to see, smoke, youth, and aftersound.
Read poem →Keys
A poem on a first London home, an artist-made Phipps House doorplate, borrowed key sounds, and what access makes the body carry.
Read poem →Che, Still Young
A poem voiced through impossible idealism, image, smoke, and youth that does not age.
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A Key Without a Key
A process record about a first London home, borrowed key sound, museum-object research, generated studies that were rejected, and the hand-cut address inscription still to come.
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Fate Recognition: A Hand Learns to Read Itself
A 2020 photography and video project record in which palm lines, bodily gestures and leaf drawings become temporary signs of recognition.
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Knotting Culture, Carving Culture: Making a Record by Hand
A 2021 project record for an installation of rope, wood, canvas and stone, developed through knotting systems, maps, sketches and performance.
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My Home, My Hometown: Coal, Clay and Poetry Painting
A 2021 project record tracing coal, clay, literary inheritance and a five-panel painting series back to an encounter with falling leaves.
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Isn’t It Beautiful? Stacking a City from Pringles
How Pringles cans, parallel domestic routines and an insistent question became a playful city about repetition, tenderness and shared belonging.
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The Museum Gift Shop Is Where Radical Art Goes to Become Tasteful
Museum shops make art portable, accessible, and ownable. This essay asks what happens when political difficulty is translated into tasteful objects and cultural identity.
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Handmade Has Become the Art World’s Favorite Way to Disguise Labor
An essay on how “handmade” aesthetics can conceal labour, exhaustion, unequal production, and the economic systems behind contemporary art and design.
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Poetry Paintings: Coal, Ash, and the Materiality of Resistance
A project text on poetry, painting, coal, and ash, where language meets fragile material traces and the memory of labour.
Read essay →Look On My Works!
A project text tracing ambition, ruin, memory, and the unstable afterlife of monuments through material and language.
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To Knot Is to Hope
A project text on knotting as repetition, attachment, endurance, and a quiet material form of hope.
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Bird Series
A project text on the Bird Series, using coal and ash drawings to hold movement, fragility, memory, and disappearance.
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