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four sketches for anna

Anna, for you and your wonderful distractions. Thanks for the song that made me dance and a story that nearly made me cry. Gorillaz, O’ Green World

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zeri crafts notebook } the infirmary

I don’t like this at all. But it got a pretty favorable response on Instagram, so I guess I’ll post it. Hashtag Instagram is Bible.

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carbon imprints } future exhibition residue

I’ve been working with carbon paper for years now and still find it fascinating. Here I’m sharing some of my latest scraps, including several that I’ve inverted just for fun. Listen here to Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Kiss Them For Me.

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leporello } sometimes life is more manageable in sections } part I

I just ordered two accordion notebooks and am so excited to create my storybook drawings in one of them. I was inspired to use this format after I visited the Etel Adnan exhibition at the Mathaf Museum in Doha last spring. And thanks to my own exhibition’s co-curator Namkha for teaching me the word ‘leporello’. I love it.

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three odes to the venn diagram

Happy birthday, Mr. Venn.

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in duplicate and triplicate } they dance to andrew bird

Yesterday I posted a video to Instagram which I felt needed to be longer, because I am momentarily in love with Andrew Bird’s song Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left. So I am posting the song here, along with a slideshow of more Duplicate and Triplicate drawings.

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three sketches about sisters and one about a leg-in-a-bag

Not dedicated to, but for my sister Yasmine, whose birthday is today.

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rainbow rise

My poor packages. I love and savor them so much that their unwrapping often resembles a titillating striptease at a gentleman’s club; a slow denuding involving photography, discreet or not.

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a journal with a new, not-completely-found purpose

So I’ve repurposed my original new journal. To me right now, it feels like a book which delves a little deeper into my subconscious than my more conventional journals. And because of the unfavorable way the pages reacted with my inks, it’s forced me to be more experimental and try new techniques. And that’s almost always a […]

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