Emily KellyGraphic Designer and Artist with a knack for conceptualizing and a love of typography, based in Boulder, Colorado.
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Memo
Writing, Mixed Media
While at my local creative reuse center, I came across a small (3” x 5”) bright cyan notebook that struck me. I took it home figuring I’d use it for something at some point. It’d been sitting on my desk for about a week, gently begging to be used—but no use other than to smile in admiration towards my new found object came to mind. As most thoughts do, the following 11/17/23 thought found itself on the first page of paper—

I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing.

“Supposed.”

Money aside, I don’t.

I like to make and I make—but why?

Money aside, I don’t. 

From here, I knew what this notebook was meant for. The phrase I wrote, as of 11/17/23, felt true to the life of an artist. It felt true to my life as an artist. While writing the phrase daily became the only rule I followed, I allowed whatever else flowed make its way to paper.

After each page had been filled, I explored outputs that communicated the fragility of my thoughts in a confined yet malleable nature. The result being a deconstructed book, organized by phrase and flow, sewn to a window screen—analyzing the act of creation and monetization, and what it could all be for, if anything at all.