collected below are behind the scenes texts, pictures, and sounds that offer insight into things i am thinking about and my process. there are also references to past projects that are not currently in public view. for occasional long-form project updates, sign up for my newsletter here.
sep 6, 2025
m. marsel mesulam:
aphasia consists of a breakdown in the two-way translation process that establishes a correspondence between thoughts and language… aphasia is not a disorder of perception.
sep 4, 2025
curator hannah traore, with the support of gallery manager morgan mitchell, presented who? me? at hannah traore gallery between may and july this year. first struck by self-portrait work by carravaggio and renee cox during her undergrad, traore says that “a self-portrait can be anything, capturing an artist’s essence rather than just their likeness... it doesn’t need to be didactic or figurative, it can be abstract.”
hannah traore gallery celebrates artists who have been historically excluded from the mainstream narrative.
this exhibition, as well as traore’s long-time interest in the self-portrait, has me wondering about intersections of disabled artists who have been excluded from mainstream narratives, and what their audible portraits might sound like.
aug 20, 2025
yesterday, momus: the podcast released a summer episode that includes a live recording of their spring issue: post/doc, co-published by momus and the vera list center for art and politics. in it, jjjjjerome ellis and diana seohyung “reflect on the theme of intervals—on languaging, language breaks, aphasia, riffing, and repeating.” you can listen to it here.
aug 17, 2025
i wrapped up summerworks 2025 by witnessing still life by marie lambin-gagnon. a stunning and serious gesture of endurance by megumi kokuba and jessica germano.
aug 8, 2025
the festival of dysfluent representation runs from nov 6–8, 2025 across montréal. how exciting! it asks: how do we talk about stuttering, aphasia, autism, dyslexia, or deafhood in our media, arts, and speech therapy?
aug 7, 2025
graeme and i are in the polishing stages of the HOW DO WE SPEAK LIKE A PALACE soundscape. i can’t wait to share this work with you.
jul 30, 2025
let gaza live! free palestine! nicholas kennedy from trip print press generously made and distributed these in february 2024. the horrors persist :(
jul 15, 2025
eilish briscoe: maybe (copyright © eilish briscoe, 2024)
yesterday i happily stumbled across this beautiful work by eilish briscoe. after experiencing a stroke at the age of 25, briscoe created a typeface to document the process of learning to write again. her exhibition, i don’t have the words is opening on aug 7, 2025 at art practice in london, uk.
jul 09, 2025
my brother’s book, all the quiet hours, arrived in the mail today. there is so much to say about it. regarding the title, danny says:
“...it captures the feeling of not being able to capture a feeling... it has something to do with what robert musil called “the hovering life,” sensations, associations, and half-remembered memories that cannot be explicitly conveyed.
the quiet hours might be when television networks used to sign off for the night. or maybe they’re the little in-between moments in friendship, almost imperceptible accumulated nothings that paradoxically add up to something.”
reading this makes me feel like we speak to each other through our work and during times when speaking is not possible. i am so proud of him.
jul 04, 2025
my new website is live!
jun 30, 2025
shout out to the the blackwood gallery broadsheets. pronouncing. wow.
jun 29, 2025
jun 23, 2025
testing, testing, 1-2-3 testing. how has it been a year since the tech rehearsal for 26 OR LESS?
photo by prashant gopal.
jun 3, 2025
archive images from A TICKET ON THE 4. big thanks to lily mills for finding this gem.
may 28, 2025
highlights from my meeting with graeme about the HOW DO WE SPEAK LIKE A PALACE soundscape include learning about dynamic stochastic synthesis and discussing sonic warfare on bodies of water caused by highways located 5-10 kilometers away.
may 23, 2025
i still have a handful of 26 OR LESS t-shirts left in various sizes. contact me if you would like one free of charge.
photo by xuan nguyen-marshall.
apr 17, 2025
book club reading coming soon.
apr 16, 2025
a strange but timely religious gift in my mailbox? strange because it arrived the morning my brain exploded from jjjjjerome ellis’ live performances at the music gallery this week.
apr 15, 2025
the clearing
jjjjjerome ellis: the contradiction of stuttering is that i am both speaking and not speaking. mid-sentence i block on a word. sound stops coming from my mouth but i haven't reached the end of my thought. the current of my speech has just gone underground.
oof. this performance at the music gallery changed me.
apr 13, 2025
thinking about unsounding and all types of quiet with work by christine
sun kim.
mar 8, 2025
last day of DRAWING A BLANK. a visit from nav and rochelle writing in the background.
mar 5, 2025
a kind and thoughtful review of DRAWING A BLANK by yehyun lee from ARTORONTO.
jan 30, 2025
my friend kate miller released an audiovisual poem about being a hard of hearing parent today. in their work, there are a lot of ways someone can take your child, they tell the story of their child taking a hearing test because they were at risk for congenital hearing loss. their child passed the test, and kate felt both relief and defeat. relief because they want their child to be healthy and defeat because they feel, or felt, their hearing differences would make them feel far away from eachother.
kate’s articulation of distance is profound to me. it touched on something i have felt in relation to family and friends since finding out i had anomia.
sep 19, 2024
photo by sarah bodri
sep 19, 2024
photo by sarah bodri
aug 8, 2024
if you know you know. the heat is terrific.
aug 7, 2024
a tender portrait by tara neray of her child visiting 26 OR LESS.
may 16, 2024
photo by sarah bodri
mar 23, 2023
Untitled, 2016
© Rachel Levit Ruiz
aug 31, 2022
aug 29, 2022
dec 3, 2015
photo by mk
oct 28, 2015
jul 24, 2014
jul 19, 2014
today i visited toronto general hospital where they confirmed i experienced a traumatic brain injury.
jul 17, 2014
a ticket on the 4
hank: it’s a matter of style in the face of no chance at all.
jul 13, 2014
a stage prop fell on top of my head today.
nov 26, 2011
behind the scenes of MILK BATH.
jun 03, 2010
jun 07, 2009
slim in COWBOY MOUTH.
jun 06, 2009
cavale from COWBOY MOUTH: he's no crow, i was jes' fooling. we're the crows, me and you, raymond.
jun 06, 2009
nov 10, 2003