made in the shade
this is a page for the arts & crafts i've been making
a traveler's rest
A Traveler’s Rest was constructed with stone masonry in mind;
joint compound holds together rocks, shells, and sea glass from many years of my travels, rockhounding, and beach combing.
These treasures are compounded from many places into one small resting spot for the weary, journied fae.
An ode to finding comfort in nature, and an homage to the Stone Living Room in West Milford, NJ.
Sometimes a souvenir is a log book entry, other times it’s a pocket rock.
made for, and to be shown at the Tiny Chair Show III, Stickball
photographed by Graham Brosius
2024: a review in scraps
my 2024 semi-annual scrap zine where i reflect and paste together all the souvenirs that did not make it into my grand scrapbook
2023: a review in scraps
my 2023 semi-annual scrap zine where i reflect and paste together all the souvenirs that did not make it into my grand scrapbook
a loose part two
sometime in 2023: a zine to get the feelings out. lots of sadness and power in lonliness in this one. i know it was specific, and the tiny house on the cliff has ripped over time and many moves. and from keeping this one in my car by accident. feat. a scrap from a magazine of "Housework" from Free to Be You and Me, which i was very excited about at the time. "i liked being together neither high nor heartbroken,"
"anatomy of melancholy," a loose part one
started in 2022 with only the "can i touch you there?" page, which felt apt at the time. it was subsequently forgotten about for a while and i returned to finish it in 2023. rebel!
"i'm all mine"
2022, a valentine to myself. feat. poem "Dirty Valentine" by Richard Siken. i find myself thinking about the woman who gave me her copy of "Crush" before i left for my first tour. i did her the bad kind of dirty upon returning home, and i wish her well.
resolutions for 2021
it is sweet to look back on what i was thinking when i first came into my nonbinary identity. gender is fluid and a journey, and i like to read how kind i was being to myself that first year in my new world. i did (and do) remind myself of my passions, though i still have not obtained an upright piano.
"J-14 keeps me humble:
and other thoughts for 22"
for turning 22 in 2021: a letter to my past self, flipping through the pages of a J-14 magzine, and musings on my best friend at the time no longer speaking to me. how better to handle that than with a paper besties teeny bopper quiz? no seriously, this helped.
"between a rock and a hard place"
ahhh yes, the first zine i made post-first big college romance breakup. that shit was hard! player also co-opted the thought of "liminal space" and made his own art book about it. pretty good, and very funny to look back on. 2021 was a weird time, man. i had just come out, and i knew that i couldn't be me and date that person. i didn't want him to get to know me. it wouldn't be any fun for me, and my life has been so fun since.
vintage postcard cuttings
i remember making this with vintage, thrifted postcards from ethan w. from college. i want to say this was made sometime circa 2018 or 2019, specifically because as i write this, i can picture the (treasured) ratan shelf this zine sat on in my bedroom.
"coming of age"
this was the first zine i made in college. i made it at the ******** public library where i went to my work-study job hosting arts and crafts for the kids who'd come after school. one day, we made zines, and i got to participate. this felt so right at the time, and it's another where i look back at myself and can't help but smile. writing this in 2026, i cannot believe this zine is 10 years old (made in 2016). wowza. it also lived on the aforementioned ratan shelf.