This is a simple fold book, made from a cyanotype of a microscopic image of heart tissue. the book moves from the big picture (of the microscopic thing) to cell, to the structure of the book- this is the mystery that keeps our blood pumping, our heart fluttering when we encounter beauty and love. 2024,… Continue reading heart work
Author: Jolene Armstrong
Jolene is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, artist, photographer, poet, writer, translator. Her creative and translated work has recently appeared in Galaxy Brain, Peatsmoke Journal, DeLuge literary Journal, MacroMicrocosm, Wildroof Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, The Hunger Mountain Review and The Society for Misfit Stories. She is 1/9 of the www.decameroncollective.com and curator and creator of https://museumofephemera.omeka.net
She gratefully lives in amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, the traditional and ancestral territory of the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Metis.
Last Looks
At the time, when I took these photos, I didn’t know, at least not consciously, that it would be the last time I would spend time at the farm, the place where I spent so many summers as a child, wandering, learning, investigating, working, becoming stronger, smarter, gentler and hardier. I chose this format of… Continue reading Last Looks
Gudrid: an AR experience
Use your mobile device to scan the QR code above, or click on the link below. In order to experience this augmented reality project, you will need to install Adobe Aero on your device. It’s free, easy(although there are some minimum technical requirements needed) and fun. Get Aero here: (https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/aero.html) Since this is augmented reality,… Continue reading Gudrid: an AR experience
Daily Cup of Covid
For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons —T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Daily Cup of Covid is a gathering of bits and pieces of the discourse of the Covid-19 pandemic of the past… Continue reading Daily Cup of Covid
Thursday morning
Thursday morning It could be any morning, or any Thursday morning, but really only this one matters, at this very moment, while the morning light streams through the window, and my eyes are not yet ready for the light, but it dances across the room anyway, making plant leaf shadows on the chair, the half-… Continue reading Thursday morning
the pandemic was here
“The Pandemic Was Here” is a photo essay and reflection on the ecological, environmental, and visually psychological impact of the pandemic.
One Wild Rabbit
Welcome! You have found your way to the underworld repository for writing, anti-writing, photo-essays, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, art, rantings and ravings, sometimes, but mostly musings and ideas. Portfolio Portfolio