Maybe

2021

Graphite on paper, hand-sewn binding.

The Curiosity Archive at the Falk Laboratory School.

(Currently on hold)

I began an artist residencey at Falk in Spring 2020, but the project was put on hold due to pandemic precautions. I was working with Kindergarten and 3rd grade teachers and students to develop a larger scale curiosity archive. The Curiosity Archive at Falk is both an artwork and a research dataset, with many children’s questions collected over decades. Imagine 20 or 40 years from now, being able to look back at what 3rd graders in 2019 were wondering. Imagine artists and researchers working with this rich corpus of questions, asking questions of questions.

Curiosity Archive

An ongoing project where I record and collect questions my daughter asks me, exploring the depths and boundaries of the intergenerational knowledge we create together.

Questions You May Ask Yourself is a a zine my daughter and I made together. It is for sale at Copacetic Comics in Pittsburgh, PA, or by contacting me.

She and I explore what it means to wonder and respond to one another and our surroundings together. I’m interested in how her questions are expressions of knowledge, and how our shared practice helps us to explore how our imaginations are shaped by power structures. I am wondering: how might this work help to refuse and repair dehumanizing, dominance-oriented parenting and teaching practices we have acquired from generations of white settler families? How could this deep listening help us to be better co-conspirators and partners in making liberated futures?

I only share her questions in particular situations, based on the relationships we have with that particular individual or community, and always with her consent. There is no list posted here or elsewhere. We share her questions based on what feels right in the moment we are in.

Sometimes do you ever

2021

Graphite on paper.