in process / winter 2022 - present
IN PROCESS // past lives & mother lines: stories of an artist named jupiter (b.1984) weaves original prose, poetry, and illustration into a full book-length work. past lives & mother lines grows out of the infinite scroll project. in an evolution from previous volumes, which were made for web-based platforms first, it’s being built by hand; then it will be translated both to openly accessible digital formats and to limited edition artist’s book folios, which will be hand bound with silk screened covers, frontispieces, and inserts. additionally, while all of the previous volumes have rooted in creative nonfiction, this one moves into a new literary territory; while still telling true autobiographical stories, this volume fictionalizes selected names and elements throughout, as it feels like it gives a different kind of arm's length and makes a different kind of invitation to the reader. past lives & mother lines is in progress now. thematically it strives to remember me-and-us to the infinite ancestral web of sisterhood from which we all are made, through which we all find ourselves in these bodies, and by which we are all inter/connected. it’s curious about how recalibrating to love, grief, and awe — to the sheer and miraculous wonder of being — might liberate me-and-us from legacies of violence and open me-and-us to futures of peace/fulness. it will be shared here as soon as it’s finished.