Binding Oddkin
Binding Oddkin unfolded across a university campus through a series of handmade books. Created through papermaking, printmaking, embroidery, and bookbinding, each book invited tactile encounters with more-than-human materials that are treated as active collaborators. Placed in unexpected locations, the books offered open-ended prompts that encourage participants to tear, mend, stitch, and respond, generating exchanges that resist permanence. These gestures accumulated as a living, evolving artwork that centered touch, care, and material attentiveness while fostering unexpected forms of connection, or “oddkin” (Haraway, 2016) among human and nonhuman participants.
The books later traveled to Utah State University to be included in an exhibition with students from Introduction to Book Arts. See their exhibition here.
Collaborators: Hsin Fang and Merium Qureshi
Size: dimensions variable
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 2026
Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2026
Binding Oddkin unfolded across a university campus through a series of handmade books. Created through papermaking, printmaking, embroidery, and bookbinding, each book invited tactile encounters with more-than-human materials that are treated as active collaborators. Placed in unexpected locations, the books offered open-ended prompts that encourage participants to tear, mend, stitch, and respond, generating exchanges that resist permanence. These gestures accumulated as a living, evolving artwork that centered touch, care, and material attentiveness while fostering unexpected forms of connection, or “oddkin” (Haraway, 2016) among human and nonhuman participants.
The books later traveled to Utah State University to be included in an exhibition with students from Introduction to Book Arts. See their exhibition here.
Collaborators: Hsin Fang and Merium Qureshi
Size: dimensions variable
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 2026
Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2026