WRITING

I’m a true linguaphile. My work – all of it – starts with and in some way is about language. Translation, etymology, connection through communication; all are central interests. I also consider all of my creative work attempts at using the idea of language to not only communicate 1:1, but to generate visceral experiences that are dimensional, interpretive, and generative. Harnessing words, creating visual languages, translating meanings through metaphors… these are just some of the way language is foundational to my work.

My published writing is versatile and I primarily work in New Genres: unique hybrid forms of genre and style. Outcomes include: speculative fiction, parafiction, creative nonfiction, monographs, poetry, artist books, zines, and screenplays.

Simultaneously I publish scholarly work and critical texts on the topics of Creativity, Art, Film, Theory, Education, and Philosophy.

RECENT & UPCOMING

Grey Area Aesthetics: Interstitial Space as the Contemporary Center

This first chapter of the critical art theory / philosophy book, Postrational Visuality (Noxious Sector Press), explores the nature of knowledge creation and potentialities of artwork in our present contemporary climate and the era ahead. A look back to look forward to find wonder anew. the form echoes the content in this innovative work of parafiction – inviting the reader to wonder about……… seeks to rejuvenate ideas of suspended disbelief in a contemporary climate marked by suspicions of proof and too-frequent disregard of alternative worlds and worldviews. This is "post-truth" as a return to aesthetics as a strategy for sharing unrealized social and philosophical visions.

Corresponding Daydreams

A Shuffle Story created from the poetry and mixed media illustrations in the artwork series of the same name. This genre-bending book is also a game: create your own narrative with 20 story cards that can be read in any order.

An Unquiet Mind: The Untold Story of Isabelle Cadieux

Both an art catalogue and artist book, the parafictional artist is considered by critics and art historians from London, New York and Chicago.

First edition purchased by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago