January Collection: Ways to hold a butterfly
A month of creating, resting, writing, nesting.
ART THAT I MADE IN JANUARY
I am in my butterfly era. I spent the first three weeks of January in residence at SPACE Gallery.
BOOKS THAT I ENCOUNTERED THIS MONTH THAT I EITHER WANT TO READ, HAVE REQUESTED FROM THE LIBRARY, OR HAVE STARTED READING
1. Extra Bold A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
2. Publishing now: GenderFail’s working class guide to making a living off self publishing
3. Bluets by Maggie Nelson
4. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
5. Take Back the Light: A Lesbian Visibility Lampshade by Donna Evans and Jean Carlomusto within Queer Looks: A Perspective on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video edited by Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, and John Greyson
6. Essential Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel
7. Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology edited by Rigoberto González
8. Safer Places by Kit Anderson
9. Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by Lida Maxwell
Many of these books I found thanks to the Brazen Bandits library portion of their exhibit at SPACE Gallery. The rest found wandering around PRINT in Portland. And, after a year of people recommending Bluets by Maggie Nelson, I finally requested it from the library.
ART THAT I SAW IN PERSON
EXHIBITIONS
Who knows what grows in the morning light at Elizabeth Moss Galleries
Life Forms at University of Southern Maine Art Gallery
WHAT IS TIME? PICKWICK 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR by Pickwick Independent Press at SPACE Gallery
BRAZEN by Brazen Bandits at SPACE Gallery
1. Elijah Ober 2. Benji Grignon 3. Ashley Page 4. Ashley Page 5. Elaine K. Ng 6. Ashley Page 7. Claire Seidl 8. Emilie Stark-Menneg 9. Pickwick Press Artists
MOMENTS OUTSIDE AND IN THAT STOPPED ME AND MADE ME FEEL AWE AND LOVE
1. A chem trail glowing red from the setting sun. 2. My best friend Hannah smiling from the bakery window 3. A bird’s nest from a trail walk 4. My salad surrounded by fruits, vegetables and flowers at SPACE 5. A pink feather in the snow 6. The morning sun shining on my table at SPACE on the last weekend of my residency.
That’s all for now. See you at the end of February-ish. ✿ Raquel