Classmates: Thank you for such a warm and inspiring environment in class this semester. It was awesome to be making things with you guys and sharing them. People don’t do that enough in the wide world, is what I’ve concluded. … Continue reading
In sending something, you don’t just send it to the other person—you also send it away from yourself. This is especially true of handwritten correspondence through the mail. Unless you take a picture of it beforehand (do you guys do … Continue reading
In the fall, I started taking pictures of back alleys, lanes, in-between city spaces. There are no postcards of these places, but we spend so much time in them and moving through them in our day-to-day. I think I was … Continue reading
A composer friend recently wrote a piece of choral music using a procedure that resulted in a procedure for the choir to follow. This list of directions was the “score,” and the result of following the directions was the piece. … Continue reading
Before reading part of Joe Austin’s “Taking the Train” this week, I had never thought to consider graffiti as a highly developed modality for writing or communication. This seems strange, given that it surrounded me, growing up, on the highways … Continue reading
This all started after my rapid frustration with FontStruct. I got to “d” on that clunky, contrived grid and slammed my laptop shut. How could I create pixels, or basic design units for letter-shapes, in a way that would be … Continue reading
This is a postcard, bought rather informally at the Bread and Puppet Museum in Glover, Vermont, last summer. The Bread and Puppet Theater started in the ‘60’s in New York, but I associate it (as do most) with the unfussy … Continue reading
Undertaking this signment, I wanted to think about what surface or material would define my act of writing, both in terms of what I wrote and how. I ended up enacting and then writing this recipe. Recipe for One (1) … Continue reading
For this signment, I liked the idea of working on a surface that had already been through some layers of meaningful mediation. This envelope was sent to me this past summer by a friend of the family, a person with whom … Continue reading