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Writing

Essays, catalogues, and scripts

My writing moves between close looking, historical research, and personal reflection. These completed pieces are available to read here.

Exhibition writing

Dalí’s Dialogues

An exhibition essay and five digital catalogues of the Salvador Dalí print portfolios at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.

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Written audio essays

Five essays published with the Matthew Mythology podcast in September and October 2024. Each page includes the written script and recording.

Episode 02 · September 24, 2024

Neurodiversity Studies

An introduction to neurodiversity studies as a field for understanding Autistic and neurodivergent lives through critical theory, cultural studies, sociology, and anti-oppression pedagogy.

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Episode 03 · September 25, 2024

Art History & Psychocentrism

A critique of periodization in art history and an introduction to psychocentrism: the increasing cultural centering of psyche, subjectivity, desire, and interior experience.

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Episode 04 · September 26, 2024

Labyrinths & Mazes

A journey through the labyrinth as myth, sacred architecture, literary device, psychoanalytic symbol, and metaphor for Autistic experience, told through monologue, play, poetry, and theory.

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Episode 05 · October 1, 2024

A Counterhistory of Surrealism

A continuation of the modern-art series that questions the usual ‘isms’ model and asks how art historians might better describe movements defined by constant radical invention.

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Research and personal history

Read the abstract of my thesis on Remedios Varo.

An interview, 2024 preserves an earlier account of my creative beginnings, museum work, and neurodiversity advocacy.

From the notebooks

I am preparing new personal essays for Matthew Mythology on Substack. The publication is set up; the first essay is not yet published.