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Chokor is an accordion-fold work laid on the floor, moving from vivid Kashmiri architectural memory into forms that loosen and drift beyond the body’s inherited sense of order. Through processes that allow marks to slip, warp, and burn, the piece treats distortion as a way of queering geometric systems, an approach rooted in queer phenomenology, where misalignment and disorientation become ways of knowing. What remains is a fragile, scorched surface that holds the tension between discipline and dissolution, and the quiet moment when form breaks open into new orientations.

Publication Date

Winter 12-1-2025

Description

Entry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.

Keywords

artists' books; Baker & Whitehill

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Graduate student

Year of Graduation

2027

Major

Illustration

Faculty / Course

Susan Doyle and Jean Blackburn and Illustration studio 1

Materials + Techniques

walnut ink, paper, laser engraving, canvas

Photo Credit

Sabrina Love, FAV 27

Chokor

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