Essays + Miscellaneous Writings
Parasites and Poetics explores ritual and relational aesthetics through organic material, parasites, and the porous boundaries between humans and nature.
Exploring porous boundaries, bioart, and the more-than-human, this essay reflects on ticks, touch, decay, and the agency of vibrant matter.
Swoosh traces sneakers, mourning, and sculptural flipping as a methodology of porous assemblage, where grief meets petroleum, soil, and the instability of form.
Through edible messages and participatory ritual, In-digestion explores bioart, grief, and trans-corporeal communication—where language dissolves into body and memory.
Canning transforms canned peaches into earth art: a meditation on decay, bioart, and preservation as fragile containers of grief, memory, and mortality.
In Composting Communications, grief, decomposition, and bioart dissolve the boundaries of life and death. Composting becomes both metaphor and practice: decay as communication.
Letters to Nowhere explores mortality through bioart, algae, and bioplastic—reflecting on breath, decay, and the porous boundaries of body and nature.
Exploring breath, and the aliveness of mortality, Does She Even Want to Be Braided? reflects on death, bioplastic, and the porous boundaries between life and loss.
Book List
Books I just finished reading/am reading now
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- Mourning Diary, Roland Barthes
- No Longer Human, Dazai Osamu
- Papers and Journals, Søren Kierkegaard
- The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Theory List
Theory I'm reading/just finished reading
- Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. Christina Cogdell, 2004
- Dark Ecology. Timothy Morton, 2016
- Deviant Matter. Kyla Wazana Tompkins
- Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
- On the Melancholic Imaginary, Julia Kristeva
- Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva
- On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf
- The Phenomenon of Waste-World-Making, Myra J. Hird
- The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout, Jane Bennett
- Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett
- Users Guide to Entropy, Rosalind Krauss
- On Touching—The Inhuman That Therefore I Am, Karen Barad
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Poetry List
Poetry I'm reading/just finished
- With My Back To The World, Victoria Chang
- Mourning Diary, Roland Barthes
- Cat Town, Sakutarō Hagiwara
- Extracting The Stone Of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik
- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
- The Ink Dark Moon, no Komachi Ono
- Gazing at the Moon, Saigyo
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman