Field Notes: Feast of Fools

The Artist's Calendar January 1st 2026

11 hrs ago • Jeremy Mathew

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December 2025

The Handmade Sentence and its Knots

Reflections on a year long project of writing by hand to "someone."

Dec 29, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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Winter Almanac 2025

A seasonal guide for outside artists. Guidance in cultivating spaciousness within constraint, with Joseph Cornell, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Betye Saar…

Dec 19, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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November 2025

The Scrap Drawer: A Quilt of Time

A quilted letter on photography, memory, and time.

Nov 30, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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October 2025

The Scrap Drawer: A Quilt of Nightmares

The Six Swans, 100 Years of Solitude, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Beloved, Whistle, & The Great Dictator

Oct 30, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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September 2025

The Scrap Drawer: Please Forget My Name!

Thoughts on artistic identity from Borges, Quasimodo, Claude Cahun, Vivian Maier, Peewee Herman, and The Burning Bush.

Sep 30, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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The Artist's Almanac Autumn 2025

The necessity of creative friendships.

Sep 22, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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August 2025

The Scrap Drawer: Fishing in the Night

A letter about letters

Aug 31, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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July 2025

The Scrap Drawer: Quilts of Attention

A Methodology for Artful Living in the Rubble

Jul 31, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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June 2025

The Scrap Drawer: What's for Dinner?

Some recipes, Wanda Gág, a litter of kittens Weegee, Mad Men, and a found negative.

Jun 29, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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Creative Literacy: Learning to Read the World Through Making

On color theory, compost, and the grammar of creation

Jun 6, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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May 2025

The Scrap Drawer: How to Keep Time

Maya Deren, Joanna Newsom, The Uses of Enchantment, Italo Calvino, Joseph Cornell

May 31, 2025 • Jeremy Mathew

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