The Tyśmienica Still Flows

This zine was made during the final session of Jess Goldman’s Understories workshop in January 2026. The text is a poem by Juliusz Wit, who lived in Borislav, the shtetl my maternal ancestors are from. I found the poem in a yizkor book which catalogs the lives and stories of the people of this shtetl, and I was drawn to the descriptions of the Jews who collected oil from the river. 

Hand-colored edition of 21

מיקװה טחינה (Mikveh Tkhine)

Mikveh Tkhine began as a poem, written after participating in a gender liberated version of a traditional mikveh, a Jewish ritual technology for purification, performed in a natural body of water (in this case the Salish Sea.)

The text reads “we see the world as we are / cold water of the ocean / exchange my particles / so that I may become a different person / who sees things differently.” Some time later, I illustrated the poem thinking the work was done. Only after deepening my studies of one of my ancestral languages, Yiddish, did I learn that women used to speak “tkhines” or prayers in Yiddish for doing daily tasks, since they were not allowed to speak Hebrew - only men spoke the language and it was for studying holy texts. I realized what I had written was a tkhine, and with support I developed a translation. Then upon my next ritual mikveh, I brought a piece of paper into the ocean with me to be transformed. 

Pandemic Stories

Pandemic Stories was a writing group at Emily Carr University of Art and Design during the 2021-22 academic year. The group met once per week online to conduct group and independent writing experiments. Each week centered around a different topic: joy, nourishment, connection, growth, humor, comfort, coping, and grief.

This is a collection of works made by group participants, as well as submissions from the larger community. Risograph printed edition of 50.

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Passage and Portal

Passage and Portal is a collection of drawings, paintings, and collages, adapted for risograph print and published by Moniker Press. This limited edition artist’s book is printed on 60 pages, in various color combinations of ink, and is 8 x 10 inches with aqua blue spiral binding.

 Undergrowth

Undergrowth is a book of drawings about an imagined parallel universe, an explosion of organisms in inner and outer space, a journey through the hairy underbelly of desert and the intestinal depths of the forest!

Each book is an 8 x 10 x 1/4” hand-bound artist’s book, in a first edition of 200, with 52 full color pages. Each copy is signed and numbered.

Lithosphere

A sketchbook style collection of drawings, photocopies and re-mixed found encyclopedia pages, about the process of collecting one of everything. Named for the “crust of the earth.”

Each book is an 8 1/2" x 11" hand bound artist’s book, in a first edition of 65. Contains eight hand colored pages. The front cover features letterpress title.

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Anteater Dreaming

A book of drawings alternating hand drawn frames from the animation Telophase with sketchbook drawings. Handmade edition of 20, signed and numbered, 4 x 6 x 1/4.”

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