Things

Things | Edible
The Consuming Power of Hunger and Desire

“As a young woman, I was rarely in control of my body or my mind. I had hungers like snakes wildly contorting from my head.”

Apr 12, 2018
Things | Artifact
Is This Device That Stores a Heartbeat an Authentic Way to Memorialize Someone?

Platforms like Facebook already act as mediums between the living and deceased.

Apr 11, 2018
Things | On-screen
The Male Gaze: Objectification in the Narrative World

“We have become so good at seeing our environment—our planet and the people upon it—as a rolling scroll of film.”

Apr 6, 2018
Things | Exhibit
Capture This: How We Live Away From the Lens

I was embarrassed each time I got out my camera.

Mar 19, 2018
Things | Traffic
A Brief Feminist Exploration of the Bicycle

Susan B. Anthony once said, “I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world.”

Mar 12, 2018
Things | Artifact
The Colonizer’s Archive is a Crooked Finger: A Photo Essay

“Colonial photography perpetually assaulted what became the Nigerian body.”

Nov 2, 2017
Things | Artifact
Taking Care With Broken Things: How I Came to Practice Ethical Taxidermy

“I imagined that spending so much time with a dead thing might make death more understandable.”

Oct 31, 2017
Things | Curiosities
The Ways Things End

The end is always near. How do we challenge finality in our daily lives and in our art?

Oct 19, 2017
Things | Exhibit
A Moment Spins on the Axis of You: The Fourth Dimension of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrors”

Our experiences with a piece of art are varied and unique. Some pieces may take a lifetime to digest.

Oct 18, 2017
Things | Artifact
A Beginner’s Guide to Snorting the Moon

There’s nothing we do to earn something as unreasonable as moon dust, or death, or a high C you’re just born with.

Oct 5, 2017