about this project
The Infinite Scroll is an experiment, curious about creative reflection, expression, and inquiry as modalities of re/generation. Across this beautiful and bewildering existence — and through endeavors including love, wonder, loss, trauma, triumph, health, hospice, depression, spirituality, solitude, collaboration, grief, awe, and more — new meanings for life and for death continue to reveal themselves. The only truth I know without question is that to be at all is a miracle. I remain equally inspired and mystified by how to hold being a human.
Women’s words, stories, songs, artworks, and auto/biographies have always felt like friends and accomplices, compasses and buoys, fables and allegories by which to navigate the infinite universe and our experiences here within these infinite/simal bodies. Certainly through similarity and maybe especially through difference, personal narratives can uniquely spark and balm and galvanize the soul. To learn about the lives of others is to soften the boundaries between us, towards a greater understanding of the connections across us and the happenings within us. To share our own is to make a reciprocity. To engage with longform and constructive traditions, particularly in a shortform and destructive era, is an intentional act of patience, resistance, and reclamation.
So, the Infinite Scroll is an offering to anyone else grappling with the polarities and possibilities of now, whether in your own spirit or in our wider world, made with a wish that you find nourishment here. It is conscientiously imperfect and perpetually in progress. While published openly, it may feel most attuned to fellow femme, queer, and/or neurodivergent women survivors. But whoever you are, in this astonishing moment, through our wild rotations of delirium and renewal, I hope this project brings resonance or catharsis, medicine or magic, to you or someone you cherish.
about this time capsule & living library
The Infinite Scroll is a constellation of open questions and multimodal approaches — original illustration, poetry, creative nonfiction, research, music, spoken word, adaptive book arts, and more — interwoven with collected social/scientific studies; collaged images and quoted passages; and selected re/generative solutions from lifelong students, teachers, and peace workers. Each scroll volume (i.e. each navigation link and page) reflects the moment it was made. So, the information, specifically the data and statistics cited, and the thoughts and opinions named, throughout will naturally become outdated. Altogether, this should not be thought of as a current event or comprehensive catalogue, but rather as a series of time capsules and a free living library:
spring 2014 - spring 2019
with trip the light fantastic band
SONG LIBRARY
confession EP >>
trinidad EP >>
the truth EP >>
practice sessions >>
winter 2019 - summer 2022
OPEN JOURNAL LIBRARY
precursor >>
a love letter on delirium & renewal >>
an appeal to the astounding >>
the miraculous art of being >>
summer 2021 - winter 2024
FREE CHANGE LIBRARY
artist’s pamphlets >>
artist’s folio i >>
artist’s folio ii >>
unfolding folio >>
spring 2020 - present
SOCIAL PRACTICE LIBRARY
mirror bridge >>
winter 2022 - present
NOVEL LIBRARY
in process / past lives & mother lines:
stories of an artist named jupiter (b. 1984)
winter 2024 - present
CHAPBOOK LIBRARY
the wilds: poems for a new time >>
in process / 33: a prologue >>
in process / reflections from rabun gap >>
about this artist
Julia Munroe Mandeville (she/her b.1984) is a multi award winning cultural worker, civic artist, curator, writer, and grassroots organizer whose portfolio spans more than two decades. With the dream that we can make a joyous, just, and peaceful future by and for all, Julia’s social practice builds pathways to lifelong learning, creative expression, self discovery, and collective impact. Her studio projects weave creative writing, spoken word, song, illustration, and research into multimedia book arts volumes, crafted for the scale of one : one exchange. Her community initiatives amplify artistic voices, nurture cooperative leadership, and produce open public programs. Together with her collaborators, Julia has resourced thousands of artists and activists by co-creating hundreds of platforms — from solo site-specific commissions to 25,000-participant cultural celebrations — and re-distributing over $15m to makers. Most recently, she’s a recipient of the 2024-25 Women’s Impact Alliance Catalyst Fellowship, 2025 Hambidge Center for the Arts & Sciences Creative Residency Fellowship Award, and 2025 City of Albuquerque Creative Bravos Award. / learn more >>
intellectual property & creative commons
A selection of social / scientific studies, quoted passages, and collaged images are attributed throughout and belong to their original authors.
Otherwise, this entire site and all its original contents are licensed under creative commons attribution-noncommercial-noderivitaves 4.0 international, attribution Julia Munroe Mandeville.
