Portfolio of Creations
Albatross
Albatross is a sensory pairing of poetry and presence in VR. Participants sit in a small boat on a choppy ocean listening to as much of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ as they can stand. This was exhibited at the Feral Vector arts festival in 2018, where participants were additionally directed to sit upon a rocking stool during the experience.
Poetic Places
Poetic Places was a free app for Android and iOS devices, developed whilst I was Creative Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the British Library, a role funded by CreativeWorks London. Poetic Places brought poetic depictions of place into the physical world, helping users to encounter poems and literature in the locations described. Promoting serendipitous psychogeographic discovery, Poetic Places utilised geolocation services and push notifications to let users know when they happen upon a place depicted in literature. Poetic Places aspired to give a renewed perception of place and to bring literature into everyday life in unexpected moments. The app was live for 3 years and was downloaded over 10,000 times globally.
Odds & Ends
Odds & Ends is an unfinished experiment in digital literature, tying shifting memories to representations of real knick-knacks. Sometimes objects on the desk change and sometimes the associated memory changes, so readers are unlikely to find everything. One of the core themes of the experience is honesty—everything I’ve put into it is completely true. It’s been difficult to write at times. Some of the memories included: the first family holiday after my mum died, inheriting a box of fingernails, eating fresh fish in Mongolia.
Demisexuality Zine
I made this little zine to get some practice at zine-making and to push out of my comfort zone a little. Like the title says, it’s about my experience of being demisexual. If you don’t know what that is the first couple of pages will probably be useful.
Obviously I do not speak for all demisexuals or grey-asexuals with this.
