The 7 Step Process of Leaving the House Without Spiraling

There is a very specific kind of psychological warfare that happens when I try to leave her house. It’s not dramatic. It’s not life threatening. It is the kind of thing that makes you sit on the edge of your bed for twenty minutes staring into the void like you’re buffering. Because leaving the house…

Printmaking: The Original Social Media

As part of my art history series, I thought this topic would be fun to talk about next. Before we had feeds, timelines, and share buttons, we had ink, pressure, and a whole lot of ingenuity. Long before the internet connected billions of people, printmaking connected entire societies by spreading images, ideas, gossip, political messages,…