stephanie across the sea: Archive

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my thursdayportrait: Week 21: building a nest accumulation of objects, time and memory have been my resources to build my new nest within these slanted walls. They remind me of something that once was. But even though what once was is now so far gone, this new nest has such a familiar posture… where does the story end?

Jan 31st

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Jan 28th

i have no dishes, i have no walls. I have fabric...

what i learned yesterday in class- I am exhibiting itinerant and nomadic behavior. i move and use what is around me. “Failures to emigrate were equally likely at all points in the nomadic phase, and there was no systematic increase in emigration distance as the phase progressed.” and I am changing.

Jan 28th

it was a delicate combination

a cocktail of wax, resin, cinnabar, & talc powder was once used to explore the vessels of the entire body. —- F. Ruysch’s techniques

Jan 27th

my new kitchen & my new angled walls

there is a slight difference from being on tour with a 7 piece ensemble and returning to a household of 12 people- I am on my own time. Though I run into multiple people in the kitchen and cook next to them, we each leave for our separate lives after the food is put in our mouths. I have this strange hesitance to leave my new kitchen, a feeling like I am supposed to be with my new people all day,...

Jan 27th

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Home is where the Corpus Callosum is...

I have spent my last days in California helping build and decorate a house for the newest Corpus Callosum music video. The home’s structure was designed and built by Dax and I was more than ready to assist in decorating it with crickets, meal worms, dirt, epiphites, trees, thorns, wallpaper, paint and moss. As this production was not put into swing until the last few days of our tour, I feel...

Jan 23rd

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