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My work moves between creative non-fiction, poetry, and digital experiment, often collaboratively and through practice-led research.
Antarctica Books Graph Theory Life Writing Mathematics More-than-human p5.js Poetry Projective Geometry Story-making Swarm Twine Visualisation Writing
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I’m currently looking at a dataset from the British Antarctic Survey that has over 300 years of information about the ice in the Amundsen-Ross Sea.
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Mathematician Dr Siaw-Lynn Ng and I developed an idea for a poetic form based on projective geometry. In doing this we also explored the ‘what ifs’ in mathematics and poetry which spark the creative processes of poet and mathematician.
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Siaw-Lynn and I are working on another collaboration, Graph Theory for Poets.
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This prompt generator game was developed in Twine. You can use it to generate four prompts – an entity, a sensory experience, an environment, and a timescale – which can be used as a starting point for a more-than-human story.
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We aim to explore the network of relations that includes human and non-human entities and objects such as ice, water, rock, scientific data and equipment, animal lives, historical artefacts, and technologies.
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We were interested in how southern worlds are often seen as interconnected or in relation to each other, including in biography, memoir and auto-fiction. This reciprocity forms an important part of the imaginative mapping that life-writing stimulates.
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Rebecca Elson seems always in between. As an astronomer, she studied globular clusters, spherical collections of stars bound by gravity, which contain some of the most ancient stars in the galaxy. In photographs, globular clusters look like someone has popped the lid off a pot of silver glitter and upturned it onto black velvet.
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Life-Writing of Immeasurable Events (LIVE for short) was named after a line from a poem by the late Rebecca Elson, from her collection A Responsibility to Awe. Elson was an astronomer whose scientific research into dark matter took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.
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The pain began at 5am, after a night of fitful rest and vivid dreams. In bed, lying on my left side, facing the white lacquered built-in cupboard lined with shiny green and pink 1980s wallpaper. The cupboard is too narrow to be useful but we can’t change it, it’s not our cottage. Later I sit…
Katherine Collins 