Decentering
Box microscopes — Imagining possible pasts is as important as possible futures. It requires rethinking how the world looks, feels, and with whom it is in conversation. As part of my series on Instruments for Multiple Worlds and...
Preciousness and Power — A video essay incorporating microscopic footage of a 皮蛋 (pine-patterned egg) being opened, addressing such topics as anti-assimilation in visual media and the scientific gaze, intimacy and intangible ideas of memory and nostalgia, culminating in...
Instruments for multiple worlds — In early 2020, I’ve begun a collection of projects which prototype culturally situated knowledge production in a world where dominant culture collapses all meanings into one lineage (see Anti-Assimilation, esp. Sadie Prego). Each instrument explores...
Microscopic Cyanotypes — As I’ve been making and using DIY microscopes for some years, I was curious to try taking an analog photograph of a microscopic sample. I have been testing a way to produce a cyanotype directly...
Papercraft spectrometer — The Papercraft Spectrometer is a DIY kit which shifts the problem space of spectrometry into the realm of papercraft, changing both the circle of possible contributors to this technology and the meaning and purpose of...
