Conste(rn/ll)ation reconsiders the so-called “Silk Road” through the older and less romantic framework of the Jade Road — the networks that moved nephrite from the rivers of Hotan and the…
read moreCoincidentally the day Stephen completed his Songwriter Almanac GPT was the same day Trump initiated war with Iran. Originally designed as a corollary to
read moreAtomic Memory Auditor operates at the intersection of archival reconstruction and moral repair. It is both an instrument and an argument: an evidence-based counter-memory engine built from fragments of text,…
read moreThe Counterfactual Archive operates at the threshold between history and invention, where documentation becomes a site of speculation. It treats the archive not as a repository of truth, but as…
read morePHANTOM SELVES traces the origin and evolution of Thai Buddhist architecture and sculpture, particularly the large Buddha statues Thailand is known for, through temple ruins from the Sukhothai Kingdom (which…
read moreEMPTY GESTURES draws upon the Buddhist philosophical concept of suññatā (often translated as "emptiness": which refers both to the lack of inherent existence of all things and the reality that…
read moreAn ongoing poetry series subtitled "reflections of shattered life" Stephen grew up queer, critical and creative in a repressive and conformist "meritocratic" Asian society, and eventually ended up living in…
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