Love In Transit

arts and crafts described Header image description: In a bedroom, a dark blue blanket rests in front of an off-white wall. The blanket takes the shape of a mountain range, with soft, rolling peaks silhouetted against a bright sky. Avatar image description: In a dark bedroom, a tapestry of paper art hangs on the wall. It is only detectable by the warm, yellow-hued, string-lights that trace its rectangular outline, and a neon blue light that strikes like lightning.

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Poem Title: Close to the sun

You dance with desires that intimidate you even when those desires desire you.

Dance with them. (you are wanted)

Twirl around with laughter, and feel the light shimmering. (you are wanted)

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Title: nothing there

Image description: A very very blurred photo of the inside of my childhood house. Two vertical rectangular windows bring sunlight, green plants, and the corner of a neighborhood house. The sunlight doesn’t reach far into the room because a short wall cuts across the photo. A desk and a lamp shade are cloaked in darkness by the walls shadow. It feels like a memory that is trying to fade away or come into focus.

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Title: moving

Image description: A card rests on top of a soft grey blanket. Inside, a poem written in cursive says, “all of this feels fragile - all of this is breaking - a needle and thread - mend - us - inventing.” Next to the poem, scattered lines of purple thread hang against a white background. The fabric, the thread, and the curving words create a flowing motion, like soothing waves.

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Title: flowers (I remember fields of flowers) ((that’s a lyric from the musical Hadestown))

Image description: A collage project sits on top of a craft table that has a green measuring mat. There are two colorful collaged flowers, one is surrounded by a frame as if it’s posing for its portrait, and the other has tall petals, reaching and hoping to soak up more sun. They are made out of scraps like bread tags, plastic embroidery needle threaders, an empty pill tinfoil, and tea bag paper. They are glued onto a silver-gray background which is the inside of an old press scription box.

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Image description: In an embroidery hoop, there is grey fabric with a mushroom embroidered on it using soothing shades of red, orange, and yellow. In the background, a laptop screen displays a real mushroom majestically surrounded with green plants, warm sunlight, and sparkling drizzles of rain.

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Title: Pillow talks

Image description: A small piece of art rests in bed, leaning against a massive fluffy blue pillow. In the background, there's a glimpse of a fluffy orange pillow. The art is an illusion of blue and orange rectangles that depict the two pillows dreaming together, with the written message, "I WANT YOU TO BE HERE."

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Title: Art journal #2

Image description: A journal made out of recycled brown paper and held together by light brown thread is posed in front of a white backdrop. Light blue paint crackles across the paper, like a choppy memory of the sky.

The second photo shows a top view of the journal and the numerous pages held within. Each page wrinkled in its own way - imperfect and cohesive.

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Title: Art journal #1

Image description: Two photos of a handmade brown paper journal decorated with colorful embroidery and colored pencil doodles.

The front cover is full of pink and purple shapes and patterns overlapping. Moving vertically through the center, there is a light green snake made out of repeating thread stitches. Colored pencils shade the background while thread forms bold images: a spiral bends around a spider web that sits next to a bundle of squares. A wobbly bridge arches between triangles and a blue oval, like separating a body of water from crowded houses.

The back cover shows a story of two elements: water (represented by the color blue) and earth (represented by the color green). Columns of deep blue thread are shaped like rain drops, alternating their direction of falling down or falling up. A monstera plant leaf jumps up into the space, happy and well-watered. A thick green vine drapes above the leaf and spreads diagonally in front of a stained glass window, cutting the view.

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Image description: A flattened brown paper bag features a drawing with black sharpie and watercolor colored pencils. Four rectangles are outlined in black sharpie, and inside there are vibrant scribbles. Featuring blue circles linked like a chain, tiny wavy lines, and orange and red circles that loop like a rollercoaster.

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Title: timing

(45 second video)

Video description: A black and white video captures a water droplet rolling down the middle of a transparent surface, surrounded by stationary droplets. Taking all the attention, the single droplet dances through at its own pace, and exits at the bottom. The video ends the way it started, with water clinging to the surface.

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Header image description: In a bedroom, a dark blue blanket rests in front of an off-white wall. The blanket takes the shape of a mountain range, with soft, rolling peaks silhouetted against a bright sky.

Avatar image description: In a dark bedroom, a tapestry of paper art hangs on the wall. It is only detectable by the warm, yellow-hued, string-lights that trace its rectangular outline, and a neon blue light that strikes like lightning.

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Image description: On brown paper, there's a still life drawing of a glass jar containing colorful thread scraps that are drawn as squiggly black lines. Floating outside the jar, words describe how the colorful threads inspire images of nature: “Green vines rise into the sunset sky — dashes of blue, yellow, and orange with wisps of white clouds. There’s a red wavy streak — front and center. Is it a wound, a scar, or a spark? The yellow and black bees leave a trail of themselves, buzzing in and out of pink and lavender flowers. A bright orange carrot is growing underground, under shades of green grass.”

Image description: A photo of a clear glass jar containing scraps of embroidery thread. The rainbow of thread colors are tangled and chaotic, inspiring images of nature.

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Title: blip Story: When I saw this photo of myself, I saw myself a blip - a mark - in the garden, with the garden, interrupting the garden. Redacted. Blip as in glitch. That’s how it feels to walk in my body sometimes. Trying to pretend I’m walking on an unturned world. But that pretending only makes me more dizzy. Over rotated. Over wheeled. Over whelmed.

Image description: A disposable film camera shows a landscape filled with blooming cherry trees and two white people standing in awe of the pink sky. The picture was originally taken in portrait mode but is rotated so that the world is sideways. One person faces the camera, their posture stern yet hinting at fatigue. Their hands are tucked in the pockets of their favorite loose black pants. They wear a dark blue pullover sweater and a yellow baseball cap and forest green running shoes. Their smile rests behind a N95 black medical mask and their eyes crease with delight. Another person fixates on the thick trunk and branches, peering close and reaching for falling petals. They wear a monochrome ivory outfit that blends with the surrounding pink flowers that sprawl infinitely and softly.

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Title: bedtime poem/wish

Image description: A poem is handwritten in black ink on brown paper with torn edges and three tiny heart-shaped holes at the bottom. The poem starts with an oval-like shape, like a smooth rock or a pillow with no corners. Words follow: “go to sleep, says the rock, or the pillow. - go to sleep, we say. we pray. - we rest, with you so you are not alone. - go to sleep. - you have our support.”

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Title: Stamp Collage #1

Image description: A collection of used postage stamps are cut from their envelopes and stacked on top of each other, like a sturdy yet leaning tower. The flower themed stamps are marked over with wavy black lines by the postal service. The black lines match up with each other, creating one continuous wavy pattern that feels groovy and wobbly. The blue envelope on top is cut into the shape of a house with a triangle roof. The stamp shows a smooth green frog sitting on a leaf.