https://www.shelby-shaw.com/continuum-new daily 0.75 2019-06-22 https://www.shelby-shaw.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-02-20 https://www.shelby-shaw.com/credits-events daily 0.75 2026-02-08 https://www.shelby-shaw.com/artwork daily 0.75 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/f045ad56-8ff1-4411-aa97-b493d51bb3ca/05_sketch_half_girl_1280h.jpg artwork Waiting India ink and pencil drawing from found antique photograph | 5” x 7” drawing on 9” x 12” watercolor paper | Edition of 1 | 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/c577e72d-19a8-4130-931a-c0563362f09a/04_two_young_girls.jpg artwork The Prospects India ink drawing from found antique photograph | 5” x 7” drawing on 9” x 12” watercolor paper | Edition of 1 | 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/231a08e9-5f40-4879-8815-2f7fe648797f/03_two_women.jpg artwork Nobody Knew India ink drawing from found antique photograph | 5” x 7” drawing on 9” x 12” watercolor paper | Edition of 1 | 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/7c0fb4c0-c28c-4131-953a-8f74e93ba21d/02_1280h.jpg artwork Looking Ahead India ink drawing from found antique photograph | 5” x 7” drawing on 9” x 12” watercolor paper | Edition of 1 | 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/f092f83f-c29c-4d6f-994c-5a9e87d43d13/01_1280w.jpg artwork The terrors of social climbing had no woods to build ladders. India ink and pencil drawing from found antique photograph | 9” x 12” watercolor paper | Edition of 1 | 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/fe3c2135-5fc2-4022-839e-c09bc5ea103a/IMG_2277.jpg artwork Nostalgia Antique photograph album, 52 printed 4” x 6” cropped frames from Titanic (1997) featuring Leonardo DiCaprio as “Jack” in his final scene | Edition of 1 | 2023 Nostalgia objectifies the memory of a dramatized scene of a fictitious account of a real life tragedy, filmed with forgery and viewed through electronic means, by printing the images one would never try to commemorate in real life, in order to archive them physically for re-viewing as one would do with snaps and mementos generally from the time period. The blockbuster film Titanic (1997) is art imitating life, based on the true historic sinking of the Titanic in 1912, which lost over 1,500 lives. The film is the second-highest grossing film of all time, reaching over $2 billion worldwide. I have previously explored deconstructing the romantic success of the movie in my 2011 video artwork, Sinking the Titanic (towards the bottom of this page). Nostalgia was begun in the fall of 2022 and completed on Monday, June 19, 2023. I later learned that at the same time as I was completing the work, the submarine Titan had gone missing on an expedition into the Titanic’s wreckage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/3685ae2c-738e-4e96-bef4-be4e4ded0864/nostalgia_flip.gif artwork - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1687798123823-8B6L9GNSADDKDH5K7X9Q/IMG_2621.jpg artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1687798123997-QO40RA90GUI9USNO9KW9/IMG_2622.jpg artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1687798223532-XX0EHH9BLPRC3QQYGIT3/IMG_2623.jpg artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/c188dc63-9c85-4b32-8ab8-bb5837c76d69/IMG_0562.jpg artwork The Philosopher's Stow Artist, folding table, folding chair, black velvet tablecloth, artificial lawn, A5 Midori paper pads, pens, custom edition/date/signature stamp, "free poems" neon sign, handwritten paper signs, bookstands, cardboard scanner box, public Are.na channel, perfect-bound thesis books, staple-bound booklets, staple-bound graphic memoirs, hand-folded zines, risographed black-and-white hand-drawn comics, cellophane-wrapped thermochromic postcards, business cards, tchotchkes, interactions | 2022, or earlier, or ongoing NOTE: Due to catching COVID-19 just before exhibition opening, I was unable to attend The Philosopher’s Stow when it was live at the Rhode Island Convention Center for RISD’s Graduate Thesis Show from May - June, 2022. Thus, documentation is of a revised version that did not include me. 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In grief there is legacy, and legacy is always some Thing, and some Thing must have objecthood. Or can it not? The Image uses, as a primary lens, my father’s unexpected death in 2018 and the left-behind archive of 6,000+ printed images and 75+ hours of video footage that I have been gathering and digitizing single-handedly, as well as my personal notes-to-self, recorded dreams, and photographs of my work process from the same time. There are 182 full quotations from 277 bibliography entries, including, but not limited to: poetry, films, video art, children’s books, comics, critical theory (art, photography, moving image, performance, visual studies, the afterlife), spellbooks, religious histories, stage plays, lyrics, science writing, philosophy, novels, and many Merriam-Webster entries. This book’s content was written in a text editor, but the printed book’s layout was designed using over a thousand screenshots of the full manuscript in the text editor. Therefore this is a book of images only. Book number 01 of 25 (Second Edition) housed for non-circulating viewing at the Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/38e82bea-a730-4fe3-9888-71be95669d34/IMG_0860.jpg books & zines The Image Is neither Here nor There: Part One and Part Two Staple-bound booklets, color pages throughout, 28 pages each, 6” x 9” | Edition of 100 each, hand-numbered & signed | Text: 2018 - 2021 | First printing: April 2022 These booklets are the first pages of the above hardcover book, The Image Is neither Here nor There, broken into two parts for those hesitant or not interested in embarking on the full 220 pages of The Image. Each booklet is only 28 pages and Part Two picks up right where Part One ends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/dc56e481-234b-4631-a305-3c464ab3780e/IMG_0833.jpg books & zines Diary Reference Dictionary, Volume 1 Softcover perfect-bound book, black and white interior, 52 pages, 5” x 7” | Edition of 75, hand-numbered & signed | Text: 2020-2022 | First printing: May 2022 Using the pocket dictionary as medium, Diary Reference Dictionary collects poetic non-fiction micro-essays and autobiographical prose entries written over the course of 2020-2022, relating to my personal, professional, and graduate life during this period. The entries have been organized alphabetically (rather than chronologically) with at least one entry for every letter. Entries in Volume 1 include “Apply,” “Forthcoming,” “Non-Dominant Hand,” “Stagnant,” and “XO,” among others. Diary Reference Dictionary is an ongoing publication. While Volume 2 is not yet written, nor has a publication date, when it is ready it will contain new, original entries that were written after the printing of DRD Volume 1 (May 2022). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/ae83b538-a65b-4cb3-a4f4-c05b69784179/IMG_0852.jpg books & zines A Field Guide to Remembering How I Saw RISD’s Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2022 Hand-folded 20lb-paper zine, black and white, 8 pages, 2.75” x 4.75” | Edition of 935 | May 2022 These Field Guide zines fit into the palm of your hand and were meant for visitors to the RISD Grad Thesis Exhibition to take one for free in order to help prompt them to record their own experiences of the show. Due to COVID-19, the zines were available only for the last two days of the show; originally 1,300 zines were printed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1655476350602-ZCQU1ZVPFKWWZ4P77PRG/IMG_0853.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1655476350664-VFF90JB05R57QLI209FD/IMG_0854.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1655476178154-VG3POWA5QO1HB23RCLHG/IMG_0855.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1655476178662-246FVWQVIVIBA23TU2RW/IMG_0856.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/3d007e9c-86b3-4c91-9a1f-a4cca1a9a700/IMG_0333.jpg books & zines Constant Death: Immortalizing the Archive Staple-bound booklet, full-bleed color interior, 16 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” | Edition of 100, hand-numbered & signed | Text & images: 2019-2020 | First printing: May 2022 Weaving between the history of discovering, naming, and demoting the planet Pluto; the scientific decision to standardize the kilogram as a constant number; and examining how the death of a person annihilates their entire performance catalogue known as “life,” Constant Death asks what is or can be proven as true when change is ultimately the only constant: in history, in science, in life. To illustrate this, I use my late father’s archive of photographs and videos, which I’ve digitized in an attempt at reincarnating his image, only to be thwarted by the limits of digital representation. This essay originally appeared online via Volume 1 in Fall 2020, and then in V1’s print issue in Spring 2021 (see PDF of print layout here). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/5449ab70-cb58-4566-a62b-5160e1329279/IMG_0320.jpg books & zines How the Message Haunts the Medium: On the Recursive Performance of Psychic Mediums and Computers Staple-bound booklet, full-bleed color interior, 16 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” | Edition of 100, hand-numbered & signed | Text: 2020 | First printing: May 2022 An essay in four parts that looks at the similarities and metaphorical parallels between being a sitter for a psychic medium, and being a computer user sitting at a terminal. Both situations entail performances of interaction and immersion. Both situations require expectations of the anticipated outcome of the experience, which is either fulfilled, unfulfilled, or altered. Both situations require a level of conscious presence, participation, performance, and belief in what is being done — by sitter, by psychic, by computer, by the unseen information (as deceased speaker or as bytes of data). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/d7230423-f2eb-424b-8008-0ee730ddec9e/photo_zine_spread.jpg books & zines Anonymous Untitled Self-Portrait Photo Zine Hand-folded 24lb-paper zine, untitled, unsigned, undated, drawn-over color 600 film Polaroids scanned, drawn-over black and white 600 film Polaroids scanned, 8 pages, 2.75” x 4.75” | Edition of 20 | Photos: 2019-2022 | Drawings: March 2022 | First Printing: March 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1658350786730-YDB44XQ8HGBAMAW0I74D/photo_zine_00.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1658350786460-K00ASO6J7A46K6770PYO/photo_zine_01.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1658350787891-9MU2EH1E32PBSI90UENE/photo_zine_02.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1658350788831-IDACWJCEZXEZ4HQIHUA4/photo_zine_03.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1658350790001-8BEQ4RXOB1W397WOFGCQ/photo_zine_04.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1658350790940-W57QNERYV38SHJT67HO8/photo_zine_05.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/4abebe50-ec00-4bf7-b500-6a880573429a/photo_zine_originals_16-9.jpg books & zines - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/319ef3b3-b874-4e51-8c0d-8512e166e1dd/unsized_color_corrected.jpg books & zines No Subject Staple-bound booklet, black-and-white, 40 pages, 5” x 7” | Edition of 50, hand-numbered & signed | Text & illustrations: January - March 2022 | First printing: March 2022 A graphic memoir drawn and written by hand, with 25 illustrated pages. Original pages made with mechanical HB #2 pencil, Faber-Castell eraser, Super Black India ink, Deleter Saji nib, ruler, 3/8” angular brush, and 5.5”x 8.5” 270gsm Bristol vellum. Printed on 50lb uncoated paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/57461fbd-adaf-4232-8600-5ffa166ca508/IMG_9386_unsized_color_corrected.jpg books & zines Inheritage Inc. Staple-bound booklet, black-and-white interior, color illustration, 16 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” | Edition of 100, hand-numbered & signed | Text & illustration: April 2021 | First printing: March 2022 A short fiction story involving pharmaceutical giants, seductive consumerism, techno-utopian fertility options, selfish parenting, and the fine print that most of us ignore when taking a risk on our health. Gender-ambiguous in an unnamed city during a time reminiscent of the not-so-distant past, this story grew out of research I had been doing with training AI chatbots, creating holographic memories of the deceased, and seeking ontological proof: what does it mean to be alive, to be sentient, to be? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/a889829f-aa10-48b5-9e52-d29f60404144/IMG_9327.jpg books & zines Thou’ve Got Mail: An Essay on Postcards From a Bardo Staple-bound booklet, full-bleed color interior, low-res text graphics, 12 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” | Edition of 100, hand-numbered & signed | Text: January 2022 | First printing: March 2022 An appendix to the installation Postcards From a Bardo (2021), Thou’ve Got Mail uses the traditional fairy tale as a starting point to employ a Medieval vocabulary, Greek mythology, Buddhism, and Heideggerian philosophy to question presence, metaphor, and communication. Between dense, archaic syntax and out-of-focus text inserts, Thou’ve Got Mail forces readers to acknowledge when they are following the path of the essay and when they have lost their way. Exhibited in the Ultra Space Symposium at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale University (New Haven, CT), Apr 2023, and in the group show Residual Hauntings at Gelman Gallery (Providence, RI), May-Jun 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1631631050583-NU5HUZTTKMNU2HMLGJHM/IMG_5506.jpg books & zines Research Reader Softcover book, full-bleed color interior, 444 pages, 8” x 10” | Edition of 1 | First printing: May 2021 A printed documentary archive of my practice, research, and completed artworks from spring 2020 through May 2021, including published and unpublished writing, sketchbook notes and calculations, and in-progress documentation of both digital and analogue processes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1631631186685-KQHEFBWY1ZBVFWSYD92L/IMG_5509.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1631631199799-G0GI8LR9QW3AL8NIG0CB/IMG_5512.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1596661960412-SRUAEJYF9Y5SFOATJ4Z0/storyfile_2_web.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1596661958611-G5OCSM02RMFEKV1KVDE2/storyfile_1_web.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1596662665657-Z4VHN7J63LZX4SH5COOQ/storyfile_3_web.jpg books & zines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5624fae0e4b0a1b15ad8f535/1596661961415-BFGGAPNT41I55YMSRK25/storyfile_ZZZ_web.jpg books & zines