#a list of things I can't remember

[joannaliangart]

A LIST OF THINGS I CAN’T REMEMBER (2024) 6.5 x 6.4 in 23 page case bound book and handmade pastepaper. Papercut art and poetry

The “list” includes things of the mundane, humorous, and heavy. At its core, this book asks what exactly is worth trying to hold onto in your memory. Whether because of its trivial or traumatizing nature, is it ever better to forget?

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not sure if this is called papercut art? I'd been referring to it as 'paper art' in my mind but googling that leads to a lot of like, folded/oragami stuff too

final project for my praxis class in 3rd year! Got a good reception towards it during crit which was lovely C:

god this project took fucking FOREVER, I'm glad I did it because it turned out almost exactly how I pictured it but my goodness gracious AUGH it was a lil rough. I'd be working on this thing literally ALL day from morning till Very Late into the night for SEVERAL days straight to meet deadline it was kinda crazy. My floor was covered in a fuck ton of pastepaper I'd made and my finger was getting callused from holding the x-acto knife so frequently orz 23 pages of papercut images AND papercut words?? whhooweee

Watching a full playthrough of in stars in time is what kept me company during those long long days and nights haha, tis a very potent memory I have now (which now that the whole project-making ordeal is over is a p fun memory lol; isat is v v good)

some thoughts about this piece I jotted down in preparation for crit day:

A list of things I can’t remember my intention was to gather a list of mundane unimportant things as well as more like sad or poetically troubling things to disrupt it throughout. At the end it says “if I want to remember these things” because that is also something that I don’t remember, and it’s kind of the crux of the whole piece as this book at its core is about what kind of things are worth trying to hold into in your memory. 

That last page had black text because it’s the hardest to remember or think about, and as such it’s meant to be hard to read/make out clearly. 

The wavy black on the spine area is supposed to be like an encroaching darkness of forgetting lol

used pastepaper to make paper art trying to take advantage of the textures and colours I can make with pastepaper

+crit day installation! There were no white plinths left just this bright pink one?? But I was like. Actually that might fit the vibe lol and I think it did C: made the whole piece pop

For the assignment requirements we had to choose something from one of the special collections we visited, and I chose Janet Kellett's beautiful Qualicum Blue. And was also sooo grateful that googling it brought me to a whole website of theirs that had info on its creation. It's what got me into the rabbit hole of pastepaper and hoo boy! making it was a wholleee process haha; here's the slides I made for when we had to present our material research:

I did a WHOLE bunch of experiments; I really wanted to know what I could and could not do with pastepaper and I'm glad I pushed the material so much in the amount of time we had to complete this part of the project. My prof was surprised at how many experiments I did haha

+fun fact: I asked my prof if they could recommend me a place to source black paper for my book, and they sent me to what looked like such a weird sketchy on the edge of town looking place lmao But it was all good they were like a mass producer of paper or smth and they had a lil storefront? in their warehouse selling what I assume were leftover batches in smaller quantities; that was p fun and! Now I know where I can find paper

Also I got some remarks that the papercut art reminded people of The Very Hungry Caterpillar C:

[screwpinecaprice]

Movie Night 🍿

[bookwyrminspiration]

i feel like putting myself on blast on the internet!!! go wild!! tell me what you got!!

[astralhope]

Okay but this

I love this page so much

I'm crying

[w1ngedv01d]

Hermitcraft/Life Series Characters that are not explicitly married (platonically or romantically) in canon, but give off the Vibes:

Impulse and Skizz

Scar and Grian

Mumbo and Grian (they share)

Jimmy and Martyn

Joe and Cleo

...I would have put Ren and Doc but.... I don't think they count... anymore-

[evilkaeya]

finished reading no home. I don't think I'll ever be the same person every again.

[tohruies]

i used to (and i still do, sometimes, wah) do this thing to my friends where i would ask them to come closer so i could tell them a secret and then catch them off guard with a kiss to their cheek lol! but i was thinking about how my favies might react if i pulled this move on them heh (૭ 。•̀ ᵕ •́。)૭ who would get all bashful and stutter over their words? who would catch me off guard with a kiss of their own asdfghjkl?! who would be endeared by it and simply ask me to give them another kiss, properly this time, on their lips .. 🥺 OIWAKSJH 🙈

[vall0haven]

You ever fixate on something and want to get merch to have a psychical representation of your love for a series, but they have so little merch you accidently become very knowledgeable in their merch, to such a degree you might know more then most fans, and also you have a list you keep adding to so you can get everything one day. Anyway, Remedy should find a way to get merch produced again.

[shimmershy]

No way NO WAAAAY it's almost September. Ehehehehehe *rubbing hands together evilly* I can do Undertale September again.

[cheez-the-clown]

list of halloween duo costumes my sister turned down bc she hates me

jonathan davis and fred durst

generic swaggy white boys

gomez and fester

will.i.am and fergie

L and misa (the cuntiest bestie duo)

mordecai and rigby

[son-of-avraham]

It's so funny to see which things I do remember from when I was going to xtian churches and engaging with the community. Someone started listing out the fruits of the spirit and I felt like a sleeper agent who's just been activated in siberia during the cold war. I started listing them out with her going "lovejoypeacepatiencekindnessgoodnessfaithfulnessgentlenessandself-control"

[hood-ex]

The Black Mirror mention.

Our first arc is definitely action orientated as the status quo of Bludhaven shifts quite rapidly under Nightwing's rubber soled boots, but there are mysteries running underneath all of it. And I'm a big fan of the detective side of the character- Black Mirror is one of my favourite bat books- so that's absolutely going to rear its head more prominently sooner rather than later.

[chaos-has-theories]

Girl Genius Van Rijn is named after REMBRANDT VAN RIJN???

As in, famous painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mainly by his first name????

Rembrandt might be RvR's first name???????

[lepertamar]

10 books for 2025

i was tagged by @vardasvapors for this meme which is really daunting bc i usually don't plan almost anything i read much ahead of time, but i tried by just listing things i want to read but maybe putting them down here will motivate me to read them in 2025 or something:

selected writings by walter benjamin volumes 3 and 4: i already blasted through (struggled) volumes 1 and 2 and i'm continuing unabated because my hyperfixations are powerful

Too Like The Lightning by ada palmer: i have been shown snippets by my friend cognitohazard and heard from @orthosispsychosis many things about how much i need to read terra ignota if i am obsessing as much as i am about the concepts of god-ness etc explored in the Sehhinah series, so i need to finish this + continue to the rest of the series.

Eichmann in Jerusalem by hannah arendt: Why Not. Lmao. I read part of this one already several years ago but I was reminded of it again recently, i'll see how well it holds up.

Thornfruit (first in gardener's hand series by felicia davin): i heard about this a while back and have been meaning to check it out for a couple years at this point! no idea how much it'll be my thing or not

At The Mind's Limits by Jean Améry: i've been eyeing this due to @chthonic-cassandra's torture tag, i am not wildly equipped to read high-jargon theory (i WILL go through books of this but i won't necessarily you know.....understand it accurately as opposed to add it to brain soup) and this is the book about this topic that seems to hit the spot of interesting to me + lauded by those who are more educated on these topics + lucidly clearly written at least substantially

The Devourers by Indrapramit Das: this has been on my list for forever, maybe this will be the year i manage it

A Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz: part of my disco elysium obsession so i got to at least try and read this, mostly i've heard it's not the best crafted or edited due to what a small one-man production it was when it came out and only amateur translations but hey [gestures at the books and fics i obsess over]

Ottoman Odyssey by Alev Scott: this has also been on my list for a long time and i know less about the ottoman empire than i should imo

Seder Zeraim of the Babylonian Talmud: i promised to help my goy friend read tractate berakhot at least which means i need to actually try and go through this all in order instead of jumping around wildly chasing the most interesting leads like i usually do. but the full book might be a stretch goal, idk!

Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's On The Concept of History by michael lowy: I literally just added this to my to-read list rn becuz vardasvapors had it on her own list when she tagged me and (points at the top of my list)

tagging uhhhhh, @ante--meridiem, @solipsistful, @zytes, @theywhosawthedeep @ducktoothcollection @pigeonsnatcher @catadromously @psyduckworld @frogmomentsfrombeyondtime ok that's a short list but yeah if any of you actually are planning to be reading 10 books in the 3/4th(?) of the year left or idk if you have 10 on your nebulous to-read list. i don't remember who has or hasn't done this meme very so forgive me if i double tagged you/if you don't read/etc, also flipside if i forgot to tag you bccuz i odn't follow many people, or got intimidated about tagging you but you read this and want to do it, please do and tag me i want to always hear about people's book lists for the purpose of getting recommendations

[ghostly-cabbage]

I have officially edited and updated my DP fic recommendation document

I've so far only used it for friends but now I'm wondering if any of you guys would be interested...