GRAPHICS
“A Squirrel Turning in its Cage” is an essay film that combines Simone Weil’s early thought with industrial films, image processing, and collecting. The piece relies heavily on intertitles and text blocks. Titles corresponding to the works of Simone Weil evoke the cover art for the first editions of her texts published by Gallimard in the 1950s. Main titles are set in a bold grotesque, quotes are set in simple routed gothic, evoking informational design of the 20th century. Introductory texts to documentary sections are set to evoke the technique and era that the segment engages with— Franklin Gothic for DWRI Letterpress, an 80s-inspired advertising style for the Museum of Broadcast technology, and IBM mono for the Rhode Island Computer Museum.
Select cover and layout designs for a biannual literary journal.
I developed the Immaculate font for the namesake 2024 psychological thriller film, taking inspiration from the film’s subject: Italian manuscripts written by nuns in the 16th century. This involved heavy primary source research and adaptation. Each glyph has built-in alternates to create a uniquely weathered look for any word.
Created in collaboration with Teddy Blanks at CHIPS NY. My work primarily focused on the title treatment, image research, and image manipulation.
I produced this book for a class about figures of global modernism (s). Situating the modernist creative act as one of fragmentation and reinvention I took the texts and objects encountered over the course of the semester and “translated” them into new forms. Pages contain drawings, laser engraved sheets, handcut pieces, woodblock prints, poems, and fragments.
This zine takes up the role of text in graphic novels. I “collected” the text in various works through redrawing it in my own hand with pen and ink, and then scanning the pages in and arranging them digitally. I then created a limited font from each text. The zine highlights the ways in which the form allow text and image to overlap, juxtaposing the “vernacular” type that is included in the image with the writing used for the text in each work, both of which express certain authorial voices and affects. The zine also includes original drawings and collages reflecting on their creation and my own relationship to the graphic novel form.
Zine about the Joe and Lil Shapiro Collection of Laundry Ephemera housed at the John Hay Special Collections Library.
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