︎︎︎ this is a splash page for a (500+ page) thesis book written and designed by zoë pulley in completion of her mfa at the rhode island school of design. wanna read it???
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this is a (loose) manual on a method I like to refer to as surfacing.
a method that synthesizes narrative through the use of surfaces such as textiles, paper, web & video to reveal the spectacularly ordinary parts of Black life within a growing design practice.
a method I (currently) practice in three (evolving) steps:
unlayering and piecing together stuff (rememory)
acknowledgment of ancestry through stuff-making (kin)
consciousness of oneself and the place / time / space in which the work is being disseminated (hypervisibility)
this is a manual that profiles a (current) design practice of a Black female maker in 2023 (me! lol).
a Black female maker that continues to amalgamate, respond-to and learn-from.
one who recognizes that they are still growing — that their views expressed in this text will shift, evolve or change with time.
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this is zoë talking about said book among other things at the rhode island school of design.