Lonely Plus One
I hate drinking games. Why do you need words to consume alcohol? Why do you need alcohol to consume words?
Student Work: MA Program
Firefighters Never Hesitate
The firefighters carried that extra baggage in their already twenty-plus-pound sacks on each and every trip. Their backpacks held their survival gear doubled in the weight of their historical heartaches, with their generational trauma in tow.
House
I already miss home. As expected, moving was a mistake. This house is big and empty. I don’t like big houses; my mother knows that. They make me feel small.
Hearing Sadness
My therapist, a woman in her mid-forties with short hair and small spectacles, clears her throat and finds eye contact with uncomfortable politeness. I admit that I enjoy watching how therapists bend over backward to maintain composure, “Jess, I think you might be Bipolar.”
Outputs from print(dialogue)
"Isn't that scotland. / Don't blame the tweed. / You have never seen a fabric before. / I think it should be our fleece. / I appreciate fabric. / That is my fleece. / I am interested in having wool." A series of computer-generated mini plays.
NO SIDEWALKS IN BEL AIR
I closed my eyes– / jasmine wafting in the air– / and I summoned a picture of you.
THE CINEMATIC
A series of photographs that include cinematic elements, including lighting, format, composition, and creative methods.
TOWARD RELATIONAL MONSTERS
"Rather than waiting around for an apocalypse, how can the monster play as a queer reimagining of relations for carrying on together?"
Click, Play, Like, Follow
“What are the effects of the uninterrupted digital gaze on living, breathing humans in scroll culture?”
ANY / ANTI / SUPER / BODY
“If you could be any kind of body, what would that be and why?” The ten MA students in “Bodies at Work: Gender and Labor in Contemporary Visual Culture” share their responses.
The Shapeshifter
“When I am a little loud, or a little blunt, or a little messy, I can open a gate, and trespass into a world that is not readily given to me.”
This Body, My Body
“This body, that I inherited from my mother and her mother’s mothers is almost, but not exactly complete.”