This tactile hand-bound book is anchored by text excerpts from overshadowed contributions of three female visionary artists whose theses and research are seminal to our understanding of visual culture. Thomsen choreographs light and space to elicit wonder and activate curiosity to imagine post patriarchal structures of meaning and experience.  

In this book group, Sonja Thomsen discusses, among other things:

Simultaneity of mind, body and spiritual experience 

Co-authoring as a transformative art practice

Editors as essential translators of ideas into material and form

Books as portals, fluid conduits to generating ideas and innovation

Creating language reflective of non-binary experience 

Defiance of a singular (or linear read) of an image or experience

The necessity of rules to create elegant structure for specific design elements 

Referenced in the episode

Poor Farm Press

Figuring by Maria Popova

Brain Pickings 

Penelope Umbrico

Piece of Cake Collective

Resmaa Menakem - Grandmother’s Hands 

Lucia Moholy-Nagy - Marginal Notes 

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