https://www.inbalnewman.com/stainedglass daily 0.75 2017-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1508969263707-A7UOA65U5CQCHJCXMPC7/IMG_3971.JPG Stained Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1508969263707-A7UOA65U5CQCHJCXMPC7/IMG_3971.JPG Stained Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509765235796-4H66XL2QYP1HO4V9EPEG/P20161211-016+%28Ahavat+Yisrael%29.jpg Stained Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509765238212-FVZPR0RLTN3WFERAFVQO/P20161211-021%28Torah+Study%29.jpg Stained Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509765350287-0KZNBS3FJN6BF0SHX7PS/Mashiach_Sketch_02.jpg Stained Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509765259936-TM1MC4UE7QWSHFWRVTDJ/Screen+Shot+2017-11-03+at+9.14.33+PM.png Stained Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509765280567-EM0WNY7SGLTLLU4R82CA/P20170423-005%28Moshiach%29.jpg Stained Glass https://www.inbalnewman.com/letterpress daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1552504416374-4909W913VPTS94ZGM2SW/Inbal_Newman.08.jpg Letterpress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509822079977-XIVRNF339IA19IIRCWLI/SailorDoll03.jpg Letterpress - sailor paper doll Letterpress printed paper dolls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509822070523-ORMZFKXQPMEVO7EL2HQ0/Sailordoll01.jpg Letterpress - sailor paper doll Letterpress printed paper dolls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1510063423154-2F5ISKKO0N84WMYTZUAU/Letterpress04.jpg Letterpress - mini prints A selection of small letterpress prints, produced at Bowne & Co., Stationers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1510063412596-DDJFSYZDFJURYY0GYPSJ/Letterpress02.jpg Letterpress - seaport postcard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1510063409782-5AP4SA8K6DMQBWWXWU15/Letterpress01.jpg Letterpress - birthday card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1508799088303-RNA92LC34D7XSM22IIK2/FullSizeRender+%281%29.jpg Letterpress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1510063420332-N6JPGQOUFJHT471JGBKA/Letterpress03.jpg Letterpress - 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wallpaper pattern based on traditional silk Damask designs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509764728284-VWMK2INFEWUFY1JEX700/Spaceworks01.jpg Repeating Patterns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509764442698-3KD2RK4GB86SJ6SE3MUE/Spaceworks02.jpg Repeating Patterns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1510332589057-2IQGJP5ART48I86D0V5D/NellieBly02.jpg Repeating Patterns Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - pattern for endsheets of book by author Nellie Bly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509763914423-45KTXBIH11391QZNRKKM/NellieBly.jpg Repeating Patterns https://www.inbalnewman.com/cityreliquaryguide daily 0.75 2017-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509762586938-9FOYVP80J1PX4SQXJWC8/Reliquary02.jpg Museum Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509809889545-WLQ871KTGUU9ZRURZ6C3/Reliquary02.jpg Museum Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509810255729-FSZ549L5LDBUQW7F9SBO/Reliquary01.jpg Museum Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509811972121-WWWJ2DLSV9S1WFVEFWEN/Reliquary03.jpg Museum Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509809899768-RHO83RYXVUPVQ0AKMP5H/Reliquary04.jpg Museum Guide https://www.inbalnewman.com/packages daily 0.75 2017-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509813832010-KED7KW4069MAC3CCYFMB/Calendar01.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509813793833-6JDD2A450MYMA5PMGTXY/Calendar01.jpg Packages Reusable monthly calendar; letterpress printed, hand bound, includes 12 illustrated letterpress postcards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509762298057-AVQKWER1CVPVATR3WYKU/Calendar01.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509813513324-91OXSEBFXAO0DGQD74V5/Calendar00.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509813523857-4G9YLJR1VN07BO2JF2SZ/Calendar02.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509813542753-U98R8PSDPD6L0XCCRVY8/Calendar03.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509813548418-II90V6TCXFVJPTSD32H4/Calendar04.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509815097118-XM89WI37DUN5TBPUU5TG/Thanksgiving01.jpg Packages Thanksgiving dinner invitation; includes invite, RSVP postcard, dinner menu packaged within matching envelope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509814750933-28LP86CQI1G8AIFG2RMO/Thanksgiving02.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509814758917-L2ZHGV7WKUK4NJNAVQZ9/Thanksgiving03.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509814757383-TVD2NJKI9MCWLO9NKFJ5/Thanksgiving04.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509816670474-E8RZR55MESKSBJ3UFFIS/Invite01.jpg Packages Baby shower invitation; linoleum block print on outside, letterpress printed invitation and RSVP card with matching envelope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1509816636509-Q5BOG9W505A3RK233US8/Invite02.jpg Packages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1510109846734-O3FBFN3VWFPGHZMGKWGL/Invite03.jpg Packages https://www.inbalnewman.com/printszines daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1772664800305-F5W7E2KLECH06JUIBV3R/PeeperTime.jpg Prints & Zines - peeper time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1772664800305-F5W7E2KLECH06JUIBV3R/PeeperTime.jpg Prints & Zines - peeper time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1588038394062-5LGT9VUJGPROTJAW67TK/image-asset.jpeg Prints & Zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1710961844676-W4B44L6LVNQKA3TEZIKG/image.jpg Prints & Zines - Three Masts of Silver Commissioned linoleum print of HMS St. Lawrence I. Lunenburg, NS 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675903372220-V22QT2A6NM2TBB7XPKA3/Bindle1.jpg Prints & Zines - Inhospitable Poster edition for print exchange between MFA students and professors throughout Eastern Canada. Silkscreen, Toronto, ON, March 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675903172063-VP1IIDE943L617MIW4QS/SchoonerDays1.jpg Prints & Zines - Schooner Days Single poem about the tall ship lifestyle, written aboard a schooner. Accordion book attached inside deconstructed tape cassette, Toronto, ON, March 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675903775431-YPDR2MYT1A9IA0T13KSQ/Polaroids3.jpeg Prints & Zines - The Rainbow That Flashes in the Spray Variable edition of zines, in polaroid format. Toronto, ON, March 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675903167177-FETJKX3Z8SYES4X85FSV/Polaroids2.jpg Prints & Zines - The Rainbow That Flashes in the Spray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1581224114519-0UPW3FI08MTQPFGN1VFZ/IMG_9566.jpg Prints & Zines Anna Wimble’s Psychedelic Back-alley Tattoo Parlour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675903767880-OK0OKV9RVA5A9259CDOD/TMTC1.jpeg Prints & Zines - The More Things Change... Edition of 25 mostly blank cassette tapes, with one secret poem recorded in the middle of each side. Silkscreen printed covers, xerox zine inserts, recorded tape, accompanying risograph guide to concepts. Toronto, ON, March 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1581225493272-4LAA0MA4M9O4P1HS3QWD/IMG_9362.JPG Prints & Zines Anna N. Wimble Reports https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1581223913585-BGMTNVUXZDD3TBR9QBOC/IMG_9566.jpg Prints & Zines https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/5c340f6cf950b7c5fce5ecf1/5c341c650e2e721148d08784/1546919013085/ Prints & Zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675901127169-0ZD7TJAB4TJKQ9BWJJKC/Newman_Inbal00.jpg Prints & Zines Cocina Libre https://www.inbalnewman.com/documentation daily 0.75 2020-04-01 https://www.inbalnewman.com/soft-espionage daily 0.75 2023-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634735740-M3BSVRB6T29LABXWP2DJ/10-Inbal-Newman-Steganography-Suit.jpg Soft Espionage - Steganography Suit Custom repeating pattern silkscreen printed on wallpaper and fabric, blue marker, red filter glasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634735740-M3BSVRB6T29LABXWP2DJ/10-Inbal-Newman-Steganography-Suit.jpg Soft Espionage - Steganography Suit Custom repeating pattern silkscreen printed on wallpaper and fabric, blue marker, red filter glasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634735042-P9J4VPYXM7R2Q3942FHY/09-Inbal-Newman-Steganography-Suit-Context.jpg Soft Espionage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1679922616989-KX1QGW7C2OIK2O3OINB8/Steganography-Combined.jpg Soft Espionage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634733868-J6X6YVCY5WE8LSGJSNPM/08-Inbal-Newman-Soft-Espionage-Trench-Coat-Detail.jpg Soft Espionage - Trench Coat Home-sewn trench coat with interior pockets, and secret messages embroidered in the lining. Editions of zines in each pocket. The coat is an exhibition of zines; visitors to the gallery call a phone number to meet me in an alleyway around the corner where I reveal the exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634751636-B7H4YG0ATQ2IPRX583LI/07-Inbal-Newman-Soft-Espionage-Trench-Coat.jpeg Soft Espionage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634731863-P91T9F4RHZFCVG61ZFZ9/04-Inbal-Newman-Cassette-Tape-Granny-Square-Blanket.jpg Soft Espionage - Cassette Tape, Granny Square Granny square blanket, crocheted from cassette tapes. The tapes hold speculative stories recorded about my granny. The tape has been destroyed in making the blanket, yet to listen to these tapes one would necessarily destroy the blanket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634732352-CDSN3BF8K8TW7T104MQZ/05-Inbal-Newman-Cassette-Tape-Granny-Square-Blanket-Detail.jpg Soft Espionage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675634733228-GNZXE2L0QTXQY472H9AZ/06-Inbal-Newman-Mission-Impossible-Reenactment.jpg Soft Espionage - Cinnamon Carter Colloquium Performance with edited video, handmade replica costume, voiceover on reel-to-reel tape player. Embodiment of fictional Mission: Impossible character Cinnamon Carter, in the only 1960s episode that began with a woman accepting mission details. https://www.inbalnewman.com/hobo-code daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675697855168-WZ8HEV5KA3Y74KXPMCTS/Resized%2BImage12.jpg This Town is Mapped - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675697855168-WZ8HEV5KA3Y74KXPMCTS/Resized%2BImage12.jpg This Town is Mapped - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660588864978-GME5UNU2Y70MZEZF9QNC/Resized+Image03.jpg This Town is Mapped - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675697828315-5VAY4XJVIR2B2J08ZE7P/Resized%2BImage10.jpg This Town is Mapped - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660588897978-UMIFWUPT4HR92VLT6S1P/Resized+Image04.jpg This Town is Mapped - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660588967929-HY5T0FPBVLLC10G1Y63N/TRH-guide.jpg This Town is Mapped - Inactive https://www.inbalnewman.com/personal-ensigns daily 0.75 2023-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660591740328-WRR0R45WM8PORBJI5RMF/01-Inbal-Newman-Seafaring-Womens-Personal-Ensigns-Exhibition.jpeg Seafaring Women's Personal Ensigns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660591740328-WRR0R45WM8PORBJI5RMF/01-Inbal-Newman-Seafaring-Womens-Personal-Ensigns-Exhibition.jpeg Seafaring Women's Personal Ensigns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660591596089-VZB5N5LK4CXY7O0AD3DJ/4.+Julia+Ann+Shelton%2C+Victoria+Grace+Shorey+%26+Zenobia+Peal+Shorey+.jpg Seafaring Women's Personal Ensigns Julia Shelton, Victoria Grace, and Zenobia Pearl Shorey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660591625604-V411KJ2F1MZLQ7G3AHWN/7.+Gail.jpg Seafaring Women's Personal Ensigns Gail Atkinson, Nellie Row https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660591595553-51LGYPP9809G7HXAG5N2/2.+Jeanne+Baret+%28Jean+Bare%CC%80%2C+Barret%2C+de+Bonnefoy%29.jpg Seafaring Women's Personal Ensigns Jean Barè (Jeanne Barè) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1660591305203-PKKA0RFBIBOFCLIFX0IP/IMG_2330.jpg Seafaring Women's Personal Ensigns https://www.inbalnewman.com/punk-pesach daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675906437486-3A1PIB9OZRUW3PTRLPZZ/IMG_6706.JPG Wicked Son's Punk Pesach - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675906437486-3A1PIB9OZRUW3PTRLPZZ/IMG_6706.JPG Wicked Son's Punk Pesach - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675906439331-BGO549WGFR9O9X7TVQKP/IMG_6709.JPG Wicked Son's Punk Pesach - Inactive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675906439090-IOJQX552UKL8M0L732E5/07-Inbal-Newman-Punk-Pesach-Performance.JPG Wicked Son's Punk Pesach - Inactive https://www.inbalnewman.com/never-heard-the-word daily 0.75 2023-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675900528232-YPDT9Y8KUCK6DVZPI19N/69707363851__9DF9DCDC-2A07-42AE-B84A-9CF25740080C.JPG Never Heard The Word https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675900528232-YPDT9Y8KUCK6DVZPI19N/69707363851__9DF9DCDC-2A07-42AE-B84A-9CF25740080C.JPG Never Heard The Word https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1702570099984-XZ06CCVIQGICNWPHSPCG/01Crafts_Ship-NHTW.jpg Never Heard The Word https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1702570099819-KDEFG38QAXPR17D5UDGE/02Crafts_Ship-pennant.jpg Never Heard The Word https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1675907457352-NCFFUBN7CI37TA0EAGWB/69707367163__1DAD5D30-1C9E-4779-9CCD-DE1B22340BBB.jpg Never Heard The Word https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1702570101144-6RF131HDS430RZKM21A6/04Crafts_Ship-wide.jpg Never Heard The Word https://www.inbalnewman.com/small daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://www.inbalnewman.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/d3f77e63-81e6-477a-8ef1-a63977cc1c80/INewman-Headshot.jpg About photo courtesy Alanah Correia https://www.inbalnewman.com/mobile-offices daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586278484410-5UX6AKVDCQK82SFXJH0W/IMG_0605.jpg 3.2.2. Mobile Offices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586276501770-8AERGGEKPKWJYNFP67PC/image-asset.jpeg 3.2.2. Mobile Offices The pilot house of the S/V Denis Sullivan. This photograph was taken while docked in the Welland Canal after leaving Toronto a few days before; we had just arrived with the ships Pride of Baltimore II and Bluenose II, and myself and only two others spent about 30 minutes taking in all sail in the rain (I was also wearing my pjs). We arrived around 6:30 am, and I subsequently took a video call to the Thesis Proposal class at 8:00 am while the third mate shows one of our passengers something interesting at the chart table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586276720781-AXPYH93FRLAXCMGYHYPX/image-asset.jpeg 3.2.2. Mobile Offices My bunk was narrow, but just enough space for me to store my personal articles and still fit. It was a nice place to work during the day, especially if it was raining (the overhead was not leaky at all yet it was directly below the deck so I could hear the rainfall on deck quite well - a peaceful sound in the background). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586276743988-L69V49VAPH93J1I19SS4/image-asset.jpeg 3.2.2. Mobile Offices This man across the aisle from me was using the train as his mobile office as well, but he appears distracted by another train passing across the Hudson River, seen out the window. I was able to use my laptop if needed, but I could also complete small projects, such as crochet squares, book layouts, tape recordings, or drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586345940069-E8YF1HLEVO51U2L1QLKL/image-asset.png 3.2.2. Mobile Offices An example of the map I have been keeping. This location is at the sight of two cool bridges. Other observations are less permanent, dependent on the season like an incredibly red tree, or even more fleeting such as flocks of birds or deer spotted next to the highway. https://www.inbalnewman.com/things-change daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288012304-GO2IFO81BJRGWVA5ABU1/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586286930248-8PPE0M6T24JLMQLPORUW/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... The interior of the catalog shows the conceptual background of this piece. Text was handwritten, added to lined paper, and risograph printed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287010683-2JB557BVB0DVCHBSG70O/Resized-Image03.jpg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... My illustration of the tape player accompanying the tapes was posted near the recorder, as a fun didactic part of the installation. It had to be more inviting, whimsical, and explanatory than simply “Please touch!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287048902-434MRPVS3MHTWW0C7MO3/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... This collage adorned the silkscreened labels and the front cover of the “liner notes” explanatory zine included in the case. The images are all grandmothers and babies (four generations!) of my family - my great-grandmother holding my paternal grandmother as a baby, my grandmother holding my mother as a baby (and as a teenager), and my grandmother holding me. The digital collage was converted to halftone for screen printing, and because it looks cool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287275193-55YQXMXPT9KMVFCINZET/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... Cutting down labels to be signed/editioned and inserted into the cassette cases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287329744-6TSEI4WC0DDUXPD7LDF9/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... I also took apart the tape recorder so I could keep the volume down. For one thing, it’s quite unsettling to suddenly hear a whisper played back at a loud volume. The removal of the volume knob also required listeners to hold the tape player up to one ear to hear the recordings, so only one person at a time could use the tape recorder. It also prevented people from skimming ahead until they hear the sped up squeaky hamster sounds that are characteristic of fast forwarding a tape while the play button is still held down. No cheating to find my secrets! I replaced the volume knob with a flat piece of black plastic to blend in especially well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287682636-FUSCEI0G00QN8JMTBE62/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287072229-25E7856LIRT4TSRF7VE5/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... Printed tape labels. It’s always satisfying seeing the repeated image on the drying rack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287217166-6BS0W4SYIXQCKHTHJS5V/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... Each number of the edition corresponded to a secret poem on each tape. So in number 11 of the printed edition, a corresponding tape would be found in the case that contained “First Kiss” somewhere on it. I kept track of where on each tape the poems were hidden, because it was a different time for each poem. I stayed up late a lot of nights whispering secrets into the tape recorder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586287388533-O5IC7V63FRXG0NL428EE/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... After the installation was taken down, I didn’t hear many anonymous messages. I think people were more interested in trying to find the things I had hidden. However, I did get this gift - I left candy out next to the recorder as well, and someone shoved the wrapper into one of the cases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288012304-GO2IFO81BJRGWVA5ABU1/image-asset.jpeg 2.3.6. The More Things Change... https://www.inbalnewman.com/trh-residency daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586286205695-Q35U2RBD9LVWHMF0I2V0/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586285535274-L3VXIECRK4VI04SH6IEQ/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency The homestead is in a town of under 200 people, with the Tomorrow/Waupaca River running right behind the property. It was originally an elder care facility, and in addition to hosting artist residencies, was a site for Air BnB and community gathering (it’s on a main road in the town, basically right across the street from the post office) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586285565712-2AEE78RP245G6T04E56P/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency My room was delightfully cozy, with a bed and a desk right next to a sunny window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586285613932-OESDKI3YOU6IZH611ESD/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency I wanted to know more about this town, so I began going on long observational walks. I didn’t really know my way around, but the roads are not as complex as in a city. There are a few big roads that lead to more big roads, that eventually lead to county highways. I was interested in all the unexpected things I could observe in such a “boring” non-urban place. I brought a mini-tape recorder and spoke notes on each observation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586285896749-70RSD1YWLPTTOQJ8WJKC/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency I wanted to turn all of my observations/experiences into a map for others who would visit the homestead in the future, community locals and traveling visitors alike. The most important element in the area was clearly the river. I experimented with crocheting some scraps of blue fabric I had torn into tiny strips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586285591339-ZMVEJPBSVXRHM9L8I8IC/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency Plus, because I was there for a month I was able to attend a lot of spring events, thanks to the organizer/director of the residency who is very welcoming. This was from an annual May Day festival on a local farm with many generations of locals spinning ribbons around a 50+ year old maypole and beating on drums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586285941051-SUVS4Y8MAC8PZKW98C0J/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency It looks great! I sewed the crochet ribbon of water onto my fabric map, with the area that runs through the town in the very center of the canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586286059959-HUFIQI80YZT9NP8X0DJ1/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency I also saw a lot of wildlife on these observational walks. Like this groundhog! I wandered around an abandoned summer camp situated on a public lake, and I guess the sun and lack of population inspired this little one to venture outside a while. There were also sightings of baby foxes, bald eagles, and plenty of different North American early spring birds (red-winged blackbirds, blue jays, robins, etc.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586285978164-N65KOO0KS7U8IX364IFV/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency I chose map symbols based on categories of things I had observed, the kind of things I would look for in an unfamiliar place, or the kind of overlooked places I thought others should know about. Pictured here is the patch for “landmark” based on the form of the oldest structure in the town, a mill from the 1860s that was once powered by the waters of the Tomorrow/Waupaca River (and was in use as a grain mill until the 1980s!). I printed the patches with carved linoleum stamps and a barren made of a smooth river rock found on the river bank behind the property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586286106895-YFZNVHZHV8RPG7Q6H44P/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency Many other symbols were based on Hobo Code, a pictorial language that transient workers in the early 20th century adopted and used to inform/warn others of distinct places in railway-side towns (the southern border/town just south of the border is a place where a few railroad tracks still cross. It was, and still is, a hotspot for train hoppers). From the top left corner (moving left to right, top to bottom) the patch symbols are: “rad folkx” (from hobo code “kind gentleman/lady lives here”), landmark, farm (original hobo code), nature trail (from hobo code “go this way”), wildlife sighting (from hobo code “good dog”), nice smell, fresh water (from hobo code “clean water; good place to camp”), good food (from hobo code), craftsperson/artisan, treasure (from modern/updated 21st century hobo code - it’s a rainbow in a dumpster!), rural legend, good place for town gossip (from hobo code “be bold here”), a quiet place (from hobo code “be quiet”). I printed 20+ of each patch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586286268087-R4LX9XHGWBQ9T0T2LC9O/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency As a guide, I made this old-school simple 8-pager zine from hand written and taped pages which were later scanned. I produced a large edition to stay with the map at the homestead. The symbol and title are also taken from hobo code, an indication to outside travelers to watch out for the symbols other previous travelers have left for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586286205695-Q35U2RBD9LVWHMF0I2V0/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency And I got to work on sewing! I sewed only a few major roadways, railroads, and nature trails in order to keep the map simple (I wanted the river to be the main point of reference). I also sewed a red star at the location of the homestead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586286297693-09DNCC3TWK860B6XV8UO/image-asset.jpeg 2.4.1. (& Appendix. C) Residency Sadly, I only got to complete a few at the residency. But luckily for me, I still had some time in Wisconsin before sailing away on a ship that summer. So I was able to complete the rest of the edition while in a different town in Wisconsin and send it to the Nelsonville post office (the only place to send mail, as there is no delivery - incidentally the best place for town gossip because everyone is there when it opens at 10 am to retrieve their mail.) https://www.inbalnewman.com/cocinalibre daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265722149-8NE8NK3DH2QQFZ7EF42L/image-asset.jpeg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265413338-M3JVAN4MW8DM4ZTRIH7V/IMG_6651.jpg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre A mockup interior view I made from pages of this zine and the photograph at right of the inspirational source booklet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586307905022-V4TKC1OL5P5F5K2CMC7A/image-asset.jpeg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre I found this other premium example of a comb-bound book in a local Toronto used book store. There is something utterly obscene about the cheap quality of the binding, the hypersaturation of the glossy color printing, the choices in presentation that for some reason always involve olives, mayo, or some kind of unnaturally colored sauce. This is all heightened on this cover by the presence of a very phallic moulded lobster salad on the bottom left (the tail is at the top and head/claws at the bottom). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265569325-YOIKB9F0E5K6A6TE54CD/Recipes-Loose-09.jpg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre The recipes in the book were all from my mother, or her mother. I asked her to scan her favorite examples, or tell me what she remembers. So half the recipes are handwritten, such as this one. Others are dictated in the vague way that includes ingredients but excludes proportions, and gives no times or temperatures, but is so sure and confident. This recipe is for a fruit cake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265610789-BMQ39U00TVLB8RQP3DH7/image-asset.jpeg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre Complete layout of all the pages included in the cookbook. Recipes were mashed together with funny, nostalgic, and sometimes disturbing memories of food such as matzoh balls, chocolate, mandarin oranges, gefilte fish, and a weird spaghetti casserole thing. These stories were accompanied by other poem, stories, and interviews from my mother’s life about being in a youth paramilitary group, visiting a Buenos Aires coffee factory, the people she knew who were lost in the dirty wars, and getting in a parking argument with an angry Israeli lady one time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265650320-YMIX59773ZQ2T1HMBNXB/IMG_6649.jpg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre I made the decision to print the cover by hand, using a four-color silk screen process. This was going to be no easy task. However, I was aware of how much sloppy printing can affect the overall grotesqueness of an image and felt it would be best to lean into it. The sloppier the print, the more sickening the image becomes. I remember feeling physically repulsed when, as office manager for an architecture membership organization, I would sort cheap newsletters out of the organization’s mail, lingering with horrified fascination on disproportionate faces, bug eyes, and misplaced noses due to poor printing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265722149-8NE8NK3DH2QQFZ7EF42L/image-asset.jpeg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre This closeup on one of the printed covers shows how well I CAN register four color prints, and how beautifully the image appears when squarely lined up. However, I did not choose this image as one of the final covers because I was hoping to physically repulse readers with my sloppy printing. This print was simply too beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265457255-KO2O0I711T3X6Y6BNLVX/Figure-06---DSC_0060.jpg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre The form was borrowed from cheaply produced kitschy cookbooks in general, but I found inspiration in this booklet in particular. The blue printing and red comb binding are so simple and familiar. Because comb binding is considered so unstable and cheap as an option for binding, it fell out of favor. The closest equivalent now is spiral binding, which is sturdier. I found out that, even though the service is entirely unlisted anywhere, the OCAD copy/print center DOES in fact have a comb binding machine, I just had to provide the combs (which I cut to size myself). The machine both punches the rectangular holes and binds the books! Each book was only $5 to bind, and the people who work there are very kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265529992-BYSNC19Q0Q91W9YPA3HF/IMG_6565.jpg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre The comb binding was coming apart a bit at the bottom. I’m a bit regretful that I did not purchase this fine specimen of Canadian fish cookery. Printing costs were clearly spared by printing black and white on matte paper, and a few full color glossy pages. Again, we have an abstract obscene presentation with pink sauce. It is a thing of beauty. I channeled this simultaneous fascination and disgust in my cookbook, visually and narratively. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265584411-UJW5ZO2QOGLXMZNBJ8XD/00-Cover01.jpg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre I wanted to recreate an oddly presented and slightly grotesque table setting. I specifically chose items that would fit a 1970s orange, brown, yellow, and green theme. I also set the scene to be a kind of nonsensical natural hippy table, including a miniature pinecone, hand carved wooden fork and spoon from a friend of mine, garlic stalks from my cousin’s farm near Killaloe, ON, carved bark box as a spice server, and a photo of my dad in the 1970s framed with a carved wood frame. The table cloth also feels very “harvesty” with orange, brown, and green pears peeking out from under the place setting. The food itself was meant to imitate the bizarre rings and mounds of food found in cookbooks of the 1950s-1980s (probably intended as a sign of a meticulous hostess who could present every meal just so). The odd choice of food pictured include challah slices, a ring of rice and pool of baked beans, topped with tinned sardines, faked matzoh ball soup, and a raw red potato. The food elements are also reminiscent of a Jewish shabbos table, complete with kosher wine, challah bread, and a lit shabbos candle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265633007-7LP9X0CSXBGXUAX5WAYU/image-asset.jpeg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre An installation of the preliminary material research for this booklet. On the wall at the top right of the image are digital collages of photographs of my mother, on the table are experimental zines with more collages, my trusty typewriter, shabbos candles, and different smell samples in pill bottles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265673866-YKFIL8YPVBPX6PZR1VQ5/IMG_6652.jpg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre The first two layers (Yellow and Cyan) were looking great! I was printing 100 copies, and ended up with about 18 finished books. A few mistakes are already visible in this photograph. I did, however, curate out any prints that came out “too perfect” such as the image seen below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586265753382-KY6BC6WHTBRO7LD0WFPP/image-asset.jpeg 3.1.1.2.2.2. Cocina Libre I had hoped to continue this series with a Passover-specific edition cookbook (note the matzah and lack of any leavened ingredients). I did photograph another lovely yet grotesque image for the imagined cover of such a book that never came into being. The cover includes similar shabbos elements (the wine, “bread” of affliction, and lit candle), the fake matzoh ball soup (actually a shaved down roll floating in water) makes a guest appearance, and the grotesque food pile is actually date square filling with star anise, purple mint stem, and sliced clementine. Bits of marzipan, a specific Passover memory from my grandmother, are also shown in the tableau. The napkin is a yellow sock. After this project, I did start to produce a half-ass zine with disgusting/shameful/memorable tales from Passovers past, but it was not up to the level of production as Cocina Libre I. These could be easily combined one day in the future. https://www.inbalnewman.com/dead-drops daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270239309-7HUGRQMU25WVPVKGG4OC/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586269803694-QPE0K5SEM2L29GP2FENH/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops My first attempt at a dead drop was designed to fit exactly in this tin, purchased at one of my favorite stores in Leslieville, Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586269812823-URBJMOO8D7CBNMDGML79/IMG_6651.jpg 4.2.2. Dead Drops I used the buttonhole stitch from Keith Smith’s books of non-adhesive bindings. I love this binding for showing how the interior pages fold along the spine. It plays the obscure/reveal game. In addition, with so many pages, the delicate binding thread looks particularly striking along the wide spine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586269833600-TPZKE74UO56V5DW00YJG/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops I made enough pages to fit 100 entries. I took the book back to Leslieville and went on a psychogeographic walk for an entire day until the book was filled. The book ended up as 99 entries because I was struck by one location that took up two pages. I also recorded the time, direction I was heading, the lat./long., degrees, and the wind force and direction. I borrowed these qualifiers from the typical entries in a ship’s log. Often these categories are necessary for planning trajectories of a sailing ship (which direction to head to most efficiently use sails in the wind), and show weather trends over time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586269950463-79P435OMTOXBXJX5GDVF/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops In the spring, during my residency in Wisconsin, I made a booklet of my noted observations on the typewriter in the residence studio. A friend gave me a few old mint tins for this purpose which I brought to the residency. I was unsure before my rural walks if I would be able to make a substantial psychogeographic log, but was pleased with the result. I combined the idea of the protective metal tin from the first drop with the typed and reproducible format of the second drop booklet to complete this version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270110732-2GA4I0UOCD6XX5FRNAR0/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops My parents planted pine trees in the back yard each anniversary they spent in Wisconsin. These trees were some of the first one they planted, and now create a sheltered little wooded area with the other trees at their property line. I felt the secluded location was secret but accessible enough for a good drop location. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270162388-PIWJ11XXDJ3GI2LQQRYT/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops My next dead drop was also a continuation of a long unfinished project. While I lived in New York I began writing poems during different seasons in Washington Square Park. I also wrote a mini essay on how the park used to be a potter’s field (mass grave for the poor or anonymous) until the 19th century, a graveyard of a German parish before that (workers digging foundations for the famous arch in the 1890s uncovered headstones). Human remains have reappeared in the soil up until at least 2009. Yet the park is a popular location for all kinds of incredible activity, and a mysteriously alluring place in every season. I finally completed the book in December 2019 while taking the Metro North train up to a holiday party in Cold Spring, NY. When I returned to Manhattan the next day I had the books printed, produced the edition at a public chess table in the park, and hid them under a rock in front of the arch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270239309-7HUGRQMU25WVPVKGG4OC/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops The final iteration is kind of a combination of every technique. The typewriter notes remain from previous iterations of dead drops. The cassette tape provides a little protection, perhaps not as much as the metal tins, but more than nothing. The cassette is cheap, surprisingly available, and still quite durable. The odd interior shape requires the layout of the dead drop content be incredibly vertical, and limits observations or other information to only the most necessary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586269885411-KA0RL86U7LISH05Q8VXF/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops I eventually converted the handwritten notes to typewritten entries so that the book could be more easily reproduced. I then attempted a similar exercise where I took down 25 observations in one coffee shop on College and Gladstone. I enjoyed seeing how many observations I could make from the same perspective in a fixed location. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586269967637-JUNER3C9KJE6ZNCOMU8W/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops One fun responsibility during the residency was helping the director start planting the front garden of the homestead. I was put in charge of dotting many little marigold plants around. In digging shallow holes for these little plants, I saw my opportunity to bury the dead drop in its own small hole in the garden. Hopefully they will find it this spring, or next time they begin to dig holes and plant new things in the garden again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270007463-AWMWSWYVIJS72Z2K2ND5/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops This inspired me to complete a dead drop I had been working on at my parents’ house in Wisconsin for years, and had been thinking about for even longer. It was also partially a time capsule, with some personal effects, and a photo album with some information on their house. In keeping with the other drops, I put all the information in a metal tin. Pictured here are: a U.S. $2 bill, unidentified cards, soldered bits of stained glass from a project in the local synagogue, a scented pouch, and a mini jar of oil mixed with sap from a tree that fell in the backyard after a big storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270085828-BRM2BS32SF4L5DR36URI/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops I buried the box (tied up and in a ziploc bag) in a hole in this little wooded area. I saved the lat./long. coordinates with a plan to return in 25 years and share it with whoever lives in the house (if it’s different from my parents, and if the residents have not found it already). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270212464-LVZ4NZM4GKQ8CW1OTVDN/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops A few copies under a rock, unprotected. A few days later it rained in New York, likely destroying the books if they hadn’t been thrown away or taken by then. I am uncertain of their fate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586270273369-XDSHSY1F51K30JFDHXEM/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.2. Dead Drops The text of this last dead drop, which was never actually dropped. More of an experiment, this dead drop contains a partial story about getting a hand-poked tattoo on a sailing ship, and the playlist of one of Anna Wimble’s alter-egos (8-ball) who planned to set up a 1960s era backalley tattoo parlor in a Toronto alleyway. While giving out hand-poked tattoos for a toonie or trade, 8-ball was known to play psychedelic world music and smoke a pipe. https://www.inbalnewman.com/trench-coat daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586289324686-IEVUCJ50ULUEJXZ3MR5B/title.jpg 4.4.3. Trench Coat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288309686-A1O3JKLU973AZJ73ZUQJ/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat The pattern begins by making all the little extras attached to different areas of the coat, so I had a fun pile of completed elements of a coat, such as the pocket welts, collar, belt, and sleeves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288326198-TFD222FQ4ORQPELANZR1/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat I purchased a plaid wool lining that was similar too, but still clearly not, the signature brand trench coat plaid. Here I was proud of how the lines of the plaid were matched after sewing two back lining pieces together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288395342-XYUB3KVVGXVQIHUJOIDP/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat I continued with the fine handiwork, including embroidery of the secret sleeve messages. I did use an embroidery hoop so the lettering would not wrinkle or buckle lining fabrics (to ensure the sleeve still fit well), and yet I could sew taut enough stitches that my hands or other fabric would not get caught while pulling the sleeves over my arms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288428518-JGZ4TSD77KYBMCEL76N9/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat I also spent some time creating the secret pockets, which were fit specifically to objects I planned to carry with me in the coat. This little window pocket, about 2x2” was made with a clear acetate window to hold a hollow coin that itself holds a few miniature watercolor paintings inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288471538-JV4ZWODBZXCNE1UHBBDJ/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat Seeing the garment come together as a recognizable item is always the most exciting part of these projects. Here, I had just sewed the entire body together, including the rain guard at the shoulders and extra kick lining with a button flap closure. I also frequently tried the coat on throughout the process to make sure it still fit well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288545121-5BRIZ0N2VOKNY0015S5D/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat I began to layout where to place the pockets, which was something of a puzzle. I wanted to balance overall future weight (so I wouldn’t carry all heavy items on one side only), and size, but still wanted to align the lines of the plaid pattern, as before. I also just had a lot of pockets to sew, and had to find space for them in the lining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288511382-CS0Z4MSV2K8F8EYBNYIP/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288679354-L9LYA7LF6I4R1D8DN7HW/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586289036032-AJJKC6H07OF1MVOH4OJ0/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288698396-A7G8YY7SIYGUUQ5E4ONU/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat I kept my blonde wig handy in the studio, in case I had to take bathroom mirror selfies like this one. And with the final closures sewn, the coat was done!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586288650489-EBN994KHRT881WWHE6OL/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat Once the pockets were sewn, I did preliminary tests in the studio, even before sewing the sleeves on. The pockets worked brilliantly! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586289099470-TUNDBUNT3FC1TGJBPRMJ/image-asset.jpeg 4.4.3. Trench Coat https://www.inbalnewman.com/fuos daily 0.75 2020-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274573951-MC581ZVU98VBR3YTZZC7/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586357672027-OEEMSKS6T4R38MCPXTU7/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s Some incredible examples of WWII era matchbooks for sale online. My favorite of these four is obviously the Sabotage/rumors one. My parents also have a matchbook collection with some interesting specimens (they also collect mini soaps, and my dad was a philatelist). The printed matchbook is a definite formerly ubiquitous object that for some reason only exists as decades old examples in massive collections. At a close range, one can note the effects of offset or relief printing - too much ink bleeding around small text, the overlapping layers of slightly transparent ink, a slight halo around edges with too much ink and pressure. It’s hard to see on these example because most of the printing is actually done quite well. On cheaper examples, the evidence of printing is more obvious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586273950401-7E6O04FXZDRF5HGLYTIC/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s A lovely example from my own collection, also featuring blue and red printing. This example is also printed quite well, very clear edges and even has text cut out from a halftone-filled shape. I have not made an attempt to call the phone number. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586292477973-MK79OKBXCV1SVLCRB07R/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s - delivery: INSIDE JOB has demonstrated exactly what I hope to convey through the expansion of narrative publication into other material practices, and the impact on unspoken communication between creators and readers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586273990003-WW67ZUKOJXMCQYLLDKH4/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274136060-66G9F7JK2UY4GMEIIP1J/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s This was the photo album I was originally searching for in the basement. It is the kind of album with paper pages, that still has photo corners stuck on the inside where photographs used to sit. The photographs were taken out for the scanning/archiving process, but the empty album itself is a fascinating book object. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274347374-PMEVF8UP8A6ZJTS421KH/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s And this is the outside of the found album. The corners are a bit worn, with paper coming up, fingerprints, smudges, and some pen marks. Still in decent shape, however. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274490393-9GXRIPL6BEVA1JZWZJSD/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s I made a mockup before creating the real thing, closer to the size of the original album. The mockup is from extra materials found around my studio, so the bookcloth is actually muslin from my sewing supplies over pieces of plywood, and the sleeves are made from an Above Ground Art Supply bag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586290205163-FW5B6A6UNYAPD4BHXSHJ/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s This was the first of the tape crochet I tried, at the spring 2019 residency in Wisconsin. It had little relevance to my project there at the time, but experimenting with the material led to all these interesting questions. I told another resident at the time that I was recording my spoken notes from my walks around the rural area to make a map, and then making this doily with the tape when I was through with the notes. His response was “So it’s like a different kind of map.” This sparked my interest in the possibilities of working with tape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586290241146-H6CLQ0299096X49GYFKI/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s This is a stack of the squares before being combined into a quilt. I made each square individually, often crocheting on the train or streetcar. It usually caught the attention of strangers, who always wanted to comment on what I was doing. One woman thought it was incredible that I was crocheting tape with the characteristic white Apple headphones in. Another man on a train smiled and simply said to me, “Most people wouldn’t know what that is, but I know what that is.” When I had enough squares, I combined them into rows, and combined the rows together into the full blanket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274450597-Q71T62FSLQNSIXM4JNDO/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s I scoured hundreds more photographs that would have made great book covers. This one in particular that sadly did not make the cut is my grandmother ( at the bottom) while she was studying nursing in Montreal, before she married my grandfather. She lived with other young women who were studying to be nurses as well. I narrowed down my criteria for covers to photographs that also had active and engaging content on the flip side, but she wrote on so many reverse sides of photos that narrowing down the selection even further was difficult. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274206565-W7D9O8VMX8RGNME14PK3/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s Turns out the inside has 16 sleeves (not the 14 I originally wrote about)! This little insert at the very back provides information on the album itself. Again, like the textual backs of the photographs, I love how important and yet completely hidden this insert is. The focus of most of the album is obviously to put photographs on display. But way at the back, this sleeve has all the information necessary posted right inside, so I had very little research left to do. All I needed was to reference this card and make my own decisions based on the information upon it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274573951-MC581ZVU98VBR3YTZZC7/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s A shot of the front and back covers. The image is of my grandmother at about 15 years old on a bicycle in Halifax, NS. The text reads “If you want a pen pal. Anna ^ this is a picture of her ^ guess who would like to write to you.” The binding was kept as simple as possible (and using only one signature) to maintain the illusion of a photograph even in the sleeves. I used a light sepia-tone thread with one long stitch, tied in the very center, where the book “ends” and begins again toward the other cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274737652-F1VIVMLRGTOC70JDIN6L/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s These are progress shots of my replica Anthora cup. I wasn’t able to find any online (at least not under 50pcs.) and I had half a mind to call up my brother or a friend or two in NYC to ask if they could find and send me one in the mail. But I didn’t want to put the burden on them, plus the container did not need to be an original. It was perhaps better that I took the time to paint the cup myself. I imagine when Leslie Buck first painted the designs for the Anthora in the 1960s, he worked on a much larger scale at a drafting table, perhaps wearing a white collared shirt and a tie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586274761636-X1I91ATEKIASE5VV25M1/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s Painting at a 1:1 scale was much more difficult, as was painting straight lines on a 3-dimensional object. Fitting the type was especially tough, and making both sides balanced and proportionate to each other was a challenge. Luckily, because only one side is visible at a time, the differences between either side are barely noticeable. The hand painted quality of the cup is also somewhat endearing - the square scroll patterns on the top and bottom are not quite straight either, and the amphora vessel on either side is highly illustrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586289915062-L63X5ZL2EC1OXO393OEC/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s Pages in black and white (eventually printed on brown) of the book found inside the coffee cup. It details a relationship with coffee and cigarettes, and speculates about Anna Wimble’s possible early adolescent meeting of Leslie Buck as they grew up in the same remote Czechoslovakian town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586289985044-OFJAO2KXL9C6HTG8TIMH/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s A page from one of Candace Hicks’ embroidered “Common Threads” composition notebooks, photographed during her Invisible Printmaking workshop at SGCI 2019 in Dallas. The writing and embroidered handwriting style are simultaneously casual and a little frantic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586290013421-DZ59UG50B718F6D8O1OS/image-asset.jpeg 4.3. F.U.O.'s Another marbled book cover, found in the Avila bookstore of Buenos Aires, in color. I found several other dusty examples on the shelves, but sadly did not purchase any of them https://www.inbalnewman.com/steganography daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586284400321-HJ9P84TA5TU454J5PSDQ/Resized%2BImage13.jpg 4.2.3. Steganography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586282792738-7JKJ9XH2VUUMQGP79GZE/Resized%2BImage02.jpg 4.2.3. Steganography I designed the print knowing it would end up as silkscreen prints, so I purposely made the lines an even black weight. I made an attempt to copy the pattern onto a 9x12” sheet of acetate as a film for the silk screen process, but it was unsuccessful from the beginning and ultimately futile. The lines were not even and the ink was not completely opaque, which would break the illusion of a continuous pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586282679384-8XN6LZQUGE5FIOF0DQZF/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography I also went back into Illustrator occasionally to see what the pattern would look like at different frequencies of repetition (repeating over 9x12” versus repeating over a wall size 120”x144”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586283135061-WILWX0BCM9AVTJNUPVTQ/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography I first printed the repeat on paper. I purchased an 18x24” pad of bond paper, knowing the ultimate goal for these prints would be to wheat paste them on a wall as wallpaper (which works better with thinner paper). I printed about 60 of the 100 sheets in the giant paper pad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586282629586-1QMC9SV8QKFXJ76WUFS5/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography I wanted to create a background for secret messages, in the same style of her red ant pattern. However, I also wanted the pattern to be more complex, in the style of Dan Funderburgh, where small details can hide amongst busy and familiar shapes. I borrowed a few elements from a previous pattern I had made from the experiences of Nellie Bly in her account “Around the World in 72 Days” (based of course on Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, though she completed the circumnavigation in under 80). These original elements included her cigarette case, teacup, lamp (the lamp from the chapter where she met Jules Verne in France), and bird (from a passage where a crow was stealing her toast in the morning - coincidentally I used the bird as an homage to the famous William Morris pattern “The Strawberry Thieves” but did not make the connection between thieving birds until after this design was complete). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586347116265-66H67NYAQ3LJF1L55JSF/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography So I had it printed big instead!! I sent a file at 15”x32” to the kind folks at G & S Dye on Dundas West, very close to McCaul Street. The film looks beautiful even pinned up to the wall of the studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586283256772-O9B2567BR7DV80L1JNZM/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography After printing on paper at the printmaking studio, I spoke with the technician in the MAAD textile studio to see if I could use the tables for printing yardage. The studio is very organized, and has sign up sheets for everything. I set aside an entire day to complete the printing on fabric, and asked my friend C. Johnson to come help me print. Printing this pattern as yardage was not an easy task. The repeat I designed has many places where tiny lines had to meet up. When I exposed the image on my screen, I was not precise with how square the film was to the edges so it was at a slight angle. We compensated for this by taping bits of cardboard at one corner of the screen so when it was lined up against the metal bar at the bottom, it would print at the correct angle to intersect. C. was a great help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586283522149-0ILFCSGL83S16Q7S9VDY/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography In all, I had calculated I would need about 6 yards of fabric to cut the pieces for a full three piece suit. I might have needed a little more, even to make up for the garments needing to be cut vertically (with the pattern facing the right way on the clothes, not sideways) or areas where the image did not print as well. However, the amount we printed ended up being just enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586284312331-JR9GWGN75XACCDLUZGIW/image-asset.gif 4.2.3. Steganography The full suit! Each piece was uncomplicated to sew, perhaps the most complicated (and best fitting) garment being the lined vest. The jacket was deceivingly simple. I also used leftover fabric to fashion a bow tie and hat band. It was clear from the start that because the wallpaper and suit are made from different materials (and because the suit has shape, and fits around a body instead of a more formless single garment like a poncho), that I was not intending to disappear perfectly into the wallpaper. However, the pieces of the suit blend incredible well with each other, as the single sheets of wallpaper blend incredibly well when lined up properly. While in the everyday I usually wear comfortable tshirts or dresses that could double as pjs, I feel more comfortable in a well-fitted suit of dense cotton than I would in some kind of silk robe or shapeless tunic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586284604044-32J4T240TROMCKSWA422/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586283488621-CXAXE9KQXWL7FK6FJ26T/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography I used a few separate sewing patterns that I still had from high school, never used. This was the perfect opportunity to create the articles of clothing I had wanted to make for so many years, in a way that truly did them justice. Pictured here is a pattern piece for pants. Note how the pattern is running vertically, I’m relieved to have had enough fabric, but I had to get creative with how each pattern piece was laid out on the fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586284400321-HJ9P84TA5TU454J5PSDQ/Resized%2BImage13.jpg 4.2.3. Steganography If I tried to write many secret lines on a wall in a different garment, I would only be distracted with its fluttering about. The fitted suit feels more intentional, and knowing I was capable of making it with my own hands gives me greater confidence. So finally, with my “Invisibility Suit” I set out to try the originally intended purpose of this wallpaper - write secret messages on it. I had hoped to perform this stream of consciousness (almost Surrealist “automatic writing”) exercise outside in public, but wanted to maintain recent social distancing protocols. The first attempt was an overwhelming success, I only wish I could share it with more strangers. Perhaps some day soon I will be able to take this project to the outside world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586284730968-QX3YADZLU5INZPS0HPH2/image-asset.jpeg 4.2.3. Steganography https://www.inbalnewman.com/colloquium daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268590504-AS8GI8OP8FRDCFDQSVCM/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586267279472-V46J2YSTFUFGAKRY3I9R/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium A full shot of the yellow dress Ms. Carter wears in the “secret passphrase” and “mission briefing” sequences. My first step was to remake the dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586267104446-D3HGEEZ3L23419KZO0N1/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium Notes from A. Ali after sending them some preliminary still frames from the episode. They helped me work out basically all of the sewing/draping, and is entirely an expert on knowing how garments are constructed. We had a lot of fun looking at the details from single frames of the episode and figuring out how that translated to the construction. This is a note on darts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586267306290-SA3CPFTY50YFTPO3UK1D/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium However, I also went digging through sewing patterns from the era of the television episode (the mid to late 1960s) for sale online, which mostly used French darts for a sheath dress shape. Cinnamon Carter is a fashion model type, so it would make sense that TV viewers would emulate this style with these household sewing patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586267587469-06D4NPJ5H1FDB8WIMSK3/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium The dress was completed!! It took me about a week to sew. My parents were in town and helped me to get the yellow woven fabric from Queen Textiles, along with some coverable buttons for the back. They also helped me procure the yellow ribbon and blonde wig (plus, the black hat was one I gifted my mother a few years ago). I had loads of wig styling help from D. Welsh, an expert in wigs (their studio space is pictured behind me…note the blonde/rainbow wig on the desk). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268393773-12KI8DAZS47PYNDSYJ4K/Screen-Shot-2020-04-07-at-9.33.15-AM.jpg Colloquium Turns out several of the early Mission Impossible episodes used this reel-to-reel, a Craig 212. I found the model from a helpful Youtube video from an amazing tech guy who has done some in-depth research on the spy-corders of the TV series. For the familiar “self-destruct” sequence, the player was outfitted with a special device that sparked and smoked (note the tiny metal dish on the right, above the reel, missing on my player below). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268343478-VK5M0ESX8RA2K8VNYZ5B/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium Here you can better see the working mechanisms and buttons that make the Craig 212 go. You can also see the label, covered up in the TV series. Instead of buttons, this recorder/player was designed with a snappy little joystick for each function. To record, you would first hold down the red plastic “ALC RECORD” button, then push the joystick down. It recorded best with a microphone (not pictured) plugged in, which you can see on the bottom left. The volume is the nifty dial on the bottom right. The player is surprising loud when it’s working… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268452459-TKNCOCF6S7H1IMS0UEHA/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium For the video part of the presentation, I kept shots of Cinnamon when she was on screen with another individual or in a distinguishable set, but on the closeups I replaced her face with my own, in character. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586266993455-95EX18F13WY2OVGQTMX2/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium I wanted to replicate the fantastic button-up back as well, even though I knew no one would see this, as I would be facing the audience the entire presentation. But I would know it’s there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586267394999-XW9YXNYNJJ0HM8HSS9TI/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium With an idea of the final shape I made this muslin sloper, which helps in pattern making. The sloper is fit as closely as possible, and adjustments can be made on the body or after the form is taken back down into pieces. The pieces of the sloper (plus any adjustments for size, darts, decorative elements) are traced onto paper to make a sewing pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268530141-S3CZA5NABC67H0KLEZSS/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium I was officially Cinnamon Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268428651-4RAVEVD2VRJR29WBKBXM/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium I wanted to use the same tape player she pulls from a locked drawer to hear the mission briefing. I did some internet sleuthing… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586291711660-8ESK7IGU4X2TS0BPK2S2/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium However mine was not right away. The player was in surprisingly good condition, but wasn’t advancing so smoothly. My parents were able to help me here as well, driving up to Markham to have it repaired by probably the only guy in the area who knows how. PATRICK!! He is apparently a wizard at repairing any kind of reel-to-reel player/recorder. His workshop has dozens of players of all kinds. He (carefully) performed a miraculous repair, replacing a tiny spring, resetting the record button back into place, and replacing a rubber belt. He did a test recording and it played back! The player was good to go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268474652-C0PINS33ZUXWZ4I60YLB/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium Tried my best to get her intrigued stares down on film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586268590504-AS8GI8OP8FRDCFDQSVCM/image-asset.jpeg Colloquium Sadly the Craig 212 stopped working on the morning of my presentation. I didn’t have enough time to take it back up to Patrick, so I played a “mission briefing” recording of my friend Ian on a cassette player instead. Still a triumph all in all! https://www.inbalnewman.com/exhibit daily 0.75 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586272332504-7RK3WQKSB942X119NSG6/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586271382669-UU8FHNCFCIHY4CIOS8WK/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was Besides first imagining my final exhibition as an installation in a white windowless van that could travel undetected through the city, an early thought was to hold a final show/slide show/defense in the Toronto Hall of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes in Leslieville. I noticed it while wandering around the area, and have never seen anyone going in or coming out, despite the sign that reads “OPEN DAILY 11AM.” I managed to call and reach the “Buff’s” voicemail, so I left a message about renting the hall. However I quickly gave up on ever hearing back. I would still love to infiltrate this strange and mysterious club one day though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586289409782-RHMAKK8ZRZGU36XOCCUF/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was I also had the idea to hold a performance/installation in the freight elevator, which I have already written about in detail. This is a section of the proposal I submitted to several OCAD officials before rejection, that clearly states that the elevator is not required to move, and that “I would not interact or interfere with anyone who would need to make use of the the elevator.” Still, the proposal was rejected, and the most I could do exhibition wise with the freight elevator, was affix this proposal, my completed space proposal forms, and a cover sheet scan of my email rejection up next to the doors of the freight elevator on each floor. Documentation intentionally does not exist for this, which questions if the entire show existed if it was never intended to be seen in the first place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586272134162-QXDWBAAL8MH6RGMOPZIS/IMG_0222.jpg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was The desk and typewriter I was proposing to use while in the freight elevator. I was able to bring the desk up to the sixth floor studio space in the postage-stamp sized people elevator, so I am positive such a desk would fit in the larger freight elevator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586271413871-5N9TD3YEZDFMR3ZHTSBF/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was After the freight elevator show was rejected, I focused my efforts on setting up the desk and a fabricated office space in a hallway between galleries in the same building. The office would be a compliment to the “mobile” trench coat exhibit. This view shows the door into the hallway space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586271659398-5KL0HATYXIB3JP0YUI6T/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was My plan for the exhibit was to carry the objects I had created in the pockets of the trench coat, as a sort of “mobile” exhibition. In place of an actual exhibition, this telephone on the desk would sit in the hallway gallery. A hidden camera would be set up to live stream the action in the hallway, and once visitors enter, I would call the rotary phone. I have detailed this in the exhibition failures section of the thesis document. The main issue with this is that I could never set up the Obihai device to work. I visited a forum that suggested rotary phone users (with no * button) write to Obihai support, who will automatically add a device. This did not work for me. I was pointed back to the same article I read in the first place. I was told to find an analog phone with the * button, and once that was set up with a Google Voice account, I could switch it over to the rotary phone. I was given the account information of the previous owners of the second hand device and told I would have to purchase more support time to receive help with this. And so the phone aspect has not yet come to fruition. I’m still searching for an analog phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586272332504-7RK3WQKSB942X119NSG6/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was I had actually contacted the Toronto Reference Library before ever visiting the Arthur Conan Doyle room on the 5th floor. It was only after they had rejected my request that I decided to finally seek out the room and visit. I took a friend of mine who was visiting from Milwaukee, and when we got there it was surprisingly accessible. I had heard rumors surrounding the room while I was getting in contact with the head of the special collection. “I heard you can only enter the room through another room,” and “I hear it’s behind glass and you can’t go in at all.” Both are somewhat true. To access the collection, you do enter a few rooms with large glass windows. The collection also exists outside the “22B Baker Street” room, with shelves and a table just outside the main attraction. The librarian also asks to take off any bags and large coats, and if you’d like to look at a book to pull it off the shelf and leave the book out for a librarian to shelf back in the correct spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586271430316-S3UCEVTVM0BIIY8QAOQ5/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was I reserved one of the adjacent galleries for the same dates I had planned to install the small office space in this corner of the hallway. However, I was informed that this hallway, like the freight elevator, was a separate space that had to be booked through a space proposal form. I thought of proposing this as a space for the install in place of the freight elevator (as was offered to me in the rejection). However I suddenly had other install issues that took presedence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586272304528-ZTRM9WUWMKHPMR1SRMY7/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was An alley nearby the galleries where I would wait, watching the live stream, waiting for visitors I could call on the rotary phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586272364081-EQ6NYAO919UMJNENMQHB/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was There is an overwhelming amount of amazing finds in the room. In addition to old novels, early detective tradebacks, and all manner of beautiful books that have connection to Doyle, there are also numerous artist books printed and bound by hand with beautiful papers. The collection itself is splendid, although not very secret. In the end, I suppose it would not be best as a secret. The room is part of a library, a place that should remain accessible to as many people as possible and not try to hide itself away for that reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586350675790-Q3TCDF590YA5X8XIM654/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was I was also lent some actual slide images from C. Rodmore, which made testing out the projector a lot more exciting than looking at blank slides. I did test out the writeable slide as well, which was fun (seeing how my tiny handwriting from different implements translated to a large projection on the wall). He also advised me on a few places that still process slide film. I did some test runs with regular C-41 negative film on my trip to Buenos Aires, to get refamiliarized with this old camera I purchased years ago at a flea market in Berlin. I purchased a former government issued generic slide film from “The Photography Project” which has a strange background story. Ultimately, also signed up with the student program at Downtown Camera of Toronto, which offers 10% developing and a free roll of any Kodak film. So I requested a roll of Ektachrome, to have extra frames just in case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1586350659097-6LK4PFSXXRWMUMREV4XF/image-asset.jpeg 4.4. The Exhibit that Never Was The film from Buenos Aires was a tiny victory. About 4 out of the 40 or so that I shot came out beautifully like this one, taken at Recoleta Cemetery. But I did realize through the film experimentation that my camera is unbelievably low tech, and really must be in the ideal range of 125 shutter speed and F8/F11. There is not much room for deviation. I have read that slide film is more finicky, and I have never shot it before. I was never able to get the slides processed for this show that never happened. However, it’s a thrilling new possibility that I want to explore when I have time and more beautiful scenes to photograph. I would assume my success ratio would be the same 4/40 once I get the hang of shooting slide film. But even, then I need viewers to whom I can show the slides. https://www.inbalnewman.com/storydory daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1718719132221-GSJPJV0AKFIPKEAYXP5S/01A3D034-2982-4DE0-AF25-7E18790FEBEA.JPG The Story Dory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1726073851244-D3HC7IPA2LHUNIEBJ0UH/IMG_4838.jpg The Story Dory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1726073852714-TYD316M89AUM68XA78KI/IMG_6080.jpeg The Story Dory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1726073849106-V2XXW06UDJEOL2X9FY12/3106E1AA-AA3D-40C3-ABA7-EF8206B4B44F.JPG The Story Dory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1726073849443-CV3HVP140WJTEHKO35F6/86028631-CBD2-40F9-8AB6-1DAC2273F118.JPG The Story Dory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1726073852576-MNQSM577L59FTVJ1O93H/IMG_5256.jpg The Story Dory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/1726073851584-50R2FOWRKI7GJT7ZYSV9/IMG_5175.jpg The Story Dory https://www.inbalnewman.com/teenquiz daily 0.75 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/aec5dfe3-ebd4-4944-8794-fa26fa016106/Ybook2006.jpg BACKBEAT Personality Quiz - Beta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/e6a5f3af-74fa-4824-8777-00b8471badaa/Ybook2009.jpg BACKBEAT Personality Quiz - Beta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/a885f68c-c925-477a-8c6b-311645e769bd/1MallGoth.jpg BACKBEAT Personality Quiz - Beta - Mostly A’s: You are: Punk Mall Goth Inbal. Surly, angsty, nihilistic, no one understands you. You’re not like the other girls. You’re not a poser, and you scoff at those who are. One thing is for sure, you love music and the way it speaks to you, and you’re not afraid to express those dark inner feelings on the outside. Others normally shy away from darkness, but you embrace it and shout it outward in everything you do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/2bda3d23-ff7b-492d-befc-96e57153abda/2YearningRomantic.jpg BACKBEAT Personality Quiz - Beta - Mostly B’s: Yearning French Romantic Inbal Artist, Poet, Philosopher…you would fit right in the many artistic movements in Paris throughout the eras. You’re so dreamy and creative, but so overwhelmed with emotion. Whatever feelings hit you like a tidal wave flow right out of you onto the pages of Art, Creative Writing, and AP French homework you hand in to your teachers. You know you’ll explore the world some day, but until then you’re free to lose yourself in romantic fantasy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/2252ac3b-6a13-41d4-baab-9ed47d5ca490/3BandNerd.jpg BACKBEAT Personality Quiz - Beta - Mostly C’s: Misunderstood Band Nerd Inbal A nonconformist at heart, you’re proud of your geekier side, not ashamed. You’ve got no one to impress but your friends (and the band director), and they mean the world to you. You do want desperately to fit in with the effortlessly talented musicians around you but don’t have the discipline to practice clarinet. Wow them instead with your sense of humor and goofy personality! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/cf0d1c3e-fb72-450b-a393-b46bcd519a9d/4FashionFreak.jpg BACKBEAT Personality Quiz - Beta - Mostly D’s: Costume Fashion Freak Inbal It’s not just clothing, it’s more than that. With your grand expressive creations you try on a new identity each time you don a new look. You’re a technical wizard with the sewing machine, resourceful, and you have a creative knack for transforming bits and pieces into entire garments and getups. Marc Jacobs, Betsy Johnson, and Vivienne Westwood all have an influence on your approach to theatrical looks, and you hope to some day join their ranks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ed54774c0dbf135588885b/f7a0a8b3-a175-4e2c-8c86-23f61dcbe071/accordionpit.jpg BACKBEAT Personality Quiz - Beta - A little bit of all/none of the above: You are none of these, and all of these at the same time! All the responses and identities above are true, and therefore represent some part of teenage Inbal. Teenagerhood puts so much emphasis on pinning down an identity, figuring out where one fits in the world. Walt Whitman famously wrote “I am large, I contain multitudes” and so I too was all these things at once. You can be a Yearning Punk Fashion Nerd, or a jock who paints, a stoned philosopher who’s great at math, the shy comedian. 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