My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art. A bowl is to be eaten out of, to be dirtied and washed, to be regularly touched; a cup is not to collect dust, not to stay on the shelf, not to remain empty.
All Projects
A video featuring FKA twigs
“The original meaning of the word ‘comprehension’ is ‘to grasp, to seize something with the hands and hold it tight...’”
A class assignment about hands
An article about the MTA map
“It’s illustrated in a topographic style, with the region seen from above and stretching out to the horizon. The artist even included the sky. . . that’s nice.”
A note from the editors about making a map of New York City
A newspaper fold
“Telling time, taking time, keeping time, time out, time to kill, time is money, time is on my side, race against the clock, ahead of time, a stitch in time, a hard time, buy time, big-time, and so on.”
A class assignment about time
A website about medieval animal trials
“Over two decades of twists and turns and promises unmet, one journalist has been keeping a close eye on the saga of Atlantic Yards.”
An article about a development nightmare
An exhibition catalogue
“The litter box may have brought us physically closer to our feline companions, but that doesn’t mean we understand them any better than when they lived mostly outdoors.”
An essay about cat litter
A book that spans the life of a pencil
“Vladia Brooks kneads bread in the same spot that her father, Vladimir Nevl, kneaded bread for almost 50 years.”
An article about a Czech family restaurant
An artist book
A series of one minute videos
An article seen through windows
Editorial illustrations
“The parade offers a glimpse at what the neighborhood could be: a place where people are free to be themselves and celebrate who we are. A place where we can be familiar. A place where we can move and breathe.”
An article about a fish parade
“In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.”
An article about a campaign to cap the Cross Bronx Expressway
A website with an auto-generated pattern
A stereoscopic anthology
A video in the stye of a comic strip
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
“Parasite. noun. par·a·site ˈpar-ə-ˌsīt. : an organism living in, with, or on another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.“
A class assignment about web extensions
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
A website made of stairs
A website with a sunset cam
@nytimes Instagram
“A toxic mix of sewage, trash, urban runoff, and chemical waste released indiscriminately by the factories located along the banks of the Bronx River has wreaked havoc on its ecology for over a century.”
All about a map
A video in the style of a tarot deck
An video with animated emojis
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
A video made of cartoon screenshots
A video featuring Taylor Swift
A website that uncovers alt-text
A text about fostering cats
Editorial illustrations
A website with the color eigengrau
A set of animated icons
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
A website that is also a rebus
An article with a dancing lobster
“As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?”
An article about New Yorks next island
A circular music player
A magazine about hitchhiking
A video in the style of a ransom note
A painting show
A series of artist interviews
“The ghost of Annie’s brother was said to go into the pantry for a drink every night at 10 o’ clock.”
An article about a haunted house
A website about climate crisis
“When all the other mothers wore heels, stockings and hair spray, Esther would come to events with no stockings, no hairspray and no heels.”
An obituary
“The Women’s Mountain Bike and Tea Society wants to rub out the image of mountain biking as an extreme sport.”
An article about a feminist bike collective
An online viewing room
A series of digital billboards
An artist book
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
Teaching sites made with google docs
“Forty years after its inauguration, there is still much to learn from a mold-breaking NYC playground that provided space for disabled kids to play alongside their non-disabled peers.
An essay about playgrounds