The fall semester of my second year of grad school is in full swing now — and I’m finally making the time do a little summer re-cap here!

Last weekend I went to Baltimore to deinstall this show that I had at the 4 Hour Day Lutherie in Baltimore. The show was basically a re-cap of much of the work I made in my first year of grad school.

A zine exploring some basic research on mountains, proposals on how I might care for mountains, and what my relationship to mountains is.

Last semester I looked at a lineage of women using their bodies in the land. I compared the way these women use their bodies, how their backgrounds and methodologies change the work, and how viewers can relate to them. How does blending in to one’s environment speak to the way we negotiate our identities in and through space? What is the relation between self and environment? How do technological extensions of the self enable and disable relationships with the environment? In this post I will trace my trajectory from studying these artists to my own experimentation with digital technology in an effort to answer these questions.

I can’t believe I haven’t written about this zine yet! Created in 2018 after I had moved to Philly, I was looking to find some recommendations for two of my favorite foods: donuts and bagels. Some men were not super helpful but most of them gave me honest and useful recommendations. This was to the point where many people would recommend a spot and nothing more. As a result, I only went on dates with two of the men. Perhaps someone in the world could successfully get both recommendations and dates from Tinder but I found it easier to talk about bagels and donuts ;) Enjoy these snippets from it! If interested, you can buy the zine from my shop and I’ll mail it along!

During the first semester of my fellowship in the Digital Scholarship Center, I focused on learning how to make a physical, fabric object from a digital, 3D model. In my last blog post I went over the process of figuring out a way to make this happen. You can read it here.

Now, I have more than just samples!

Here I am, fiber artist, beginner MFA graduate student, lover of mountains and quilts, learning the “digital humanities” in the very very (very very) cold basement of Temple University’s Paley Library.

What does this mean for me?

Currently, it means a multi-step process that eventually leads to a three-dimensional stiffened fabric version of a topographic map (at least, for now).

Below is the chronological order of my process:

Anyone else watch season 7 of PLL and notice that they all wear the same style of jacket the entire time? I did…

Turning this into a zine!

Below are all screenshots from Season 7 of Pretty Little Liars