our album
a look back

a collaborative bookthing in celebration of creative false starts ... a home for all things unfinished. by fifteen friends.

free digital version here

physical copies available by email

first stabs at digital block "carving" techniques.

images, vids, ekphrastic responses, etc here

physical copies available by email

a poetry game featuring minimally-edited journal entries from the scorcher known as summer 2020. rg's first big jump into twine.

play here [works way better on bigger screens, not phones]

you can download the original html file here [open in any browser]

one of rg's first ever block prints. made at grey gardens with gifted paper from lita for a micro-run of handwritten "rio salado" broadsides.

photo of the print here

photo of the text here

audio here

** the text is now part of the zinething condo®s, available here **

an experiment in simultaneous, unscripted writing/editing/reading with our friends mary hope whitehead lee, claudia nuñez de ibieta, & noa/h fields. future jams will explore new formats to increase accessibility and enjoyability for all involved.

archived document here

audio-snippet from first reading here (all present except mhwl who was fighting a tech battle)

a long-distance collaborative translation experiment using the poem "sobre el mito de santa tecla" by the salvadoran poet/performance artist/historian elena salamanca.

interactive digital portal here

a week of daily demos written/recorded from 07.02.20 --> 07.08.20 on lita's computer in ellis' blue nest at grey gardens. some goofy, some not. yay for non-expert music-making!

listen/download here

informal shifting network of united states postal service users who like getting mail, cutting it up, and sending the tampered pieces back out into the world for a second/third/nth chance at life.

virtual post office here

halloweentime zine for (inner-)children.

free digital version here

audio here

free printable version for diy assembling here

micro-zine made by hand in jocelyn samayoa's workshop at the 2019 tijuana zine fest.

free digital version here

audio here

free printable version for diy assembling here

a collection of tidbits in celebration of friends. drawings, photos, poems, collages, etc. by fifteen far-flung friends.

free digital version here

interactive sculpturepoem exploring the connections between the xenophobic language of the trump machine and the types of language used in the world of immunology. written in the immediate lead-up to and aftermath of the 2016 election.

free digital version here

photo of the sculpturepoem here

narrative dissection guide for ethically removing a human brain. written after working in a human gross anatomy laboratory during the summer of 2016.

digital version here

joint exhibition of student art at the brown university biomedical center critically interrogating science and its research methodologies to reflect on questions of power, privilege, identity, history, and narrative.

installation photos here

exploration of relationship with paternal grandfather jumpstarted by letter received at age 18.

free digital version here

fieldnotes from a trashcan.

free digital version here

original recovered voicemail here

unpolished fictional storycousin here

travelogue from multi-week road trip during summer 2015.

free digital version here

selection of photos taken in guatamala and mexico in the spring/summer of 2015. first exhibited as an installation of 95 postcards at granoff center for creative arts in 2016.

free digital versions here

overlay of three photos taken in mexico city, summer 2015.

free digital version here