I am an artist and researcher based in a part of Lenapehoking now called Philadelphia. Most of my visual art practice is about thinking through open-access digital archives, their overlap with cultural work and anticolonialism, and personal memory work and archival practice alongside my ancestors [portfolio page is in progress, but there are some examples in the links below]. I do digital accessibility work in academic publishing and beyond, am a student of the disability justice movement, and am a big .epub fan, advocate, and builder. I love working with and learning from wood [especially plywood], and I write many letters and emails to loved ones and people I admire :-).

Pronouns are they/them.

Feel free to contact me about accessible digital publishing consultations and conversions! I'd love to make a reflowable epub for you and your work.

General questions or inquiries of all types are always welcome—I love letters in all forms.

• you.are@yone.house
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• instagram
• glitch
• special.fish

A note about color:

The primary color scheme is adapted from combination 341 in A Dictionary of Color Combinations, Vol. 1 [配色事典 大正・昭和の色彩ノート] by Wada Sanzo, generously gifted to me by my dear friend Ada. I am aware that the way I am using this scheme is fairly ugly.

I adapted all colors from the CMYK values given in the book before I found out about this online version of the book by Dain Kim. However, I don't think the exact CMYK values on screen match what is in the printed book. So, I adapted them as best I could to match. With a little fiddling.

All colors in the code of this website are in HSL format [hue, saturation, lightness]. I like this format because I can encode meaning into the color property numbers in a qualitative way [as opposed to RGB format adding separate primary colors that have their own meaning already; or the opaque chaos of the hex code]. Also, I like that HSL geometry is round and not square. All hue angles stand alone with the color being their only meaning, but their modifiers are all significant numbers to me.

I have thought about this a lot. Here is a descriptive list of the main colors on this website:

Light Glaucous Blue
hsl(206, 61%, 88%)
This was the base color I found the color combination from, and it is the background color of the entire website. I chose this because I wanted a light blue, and because the word "glaucous" describes both a "dull grayish-green or blue color" and "covered with a powdery bloom like that on grapes." That is exactly what the color is: a dull grayish-blue, that evokes the bitter starchy texture of touching a fruit fresh off its tree. I like that it is the luminous, powdery color you see through that indicates a fruit has barely been touched. I like the feeling it leaves in your mouth, like the astringent sensation of your boots slipping on crunchy snow, but on your tongue and teeth and cheeks.

I found that I can build the color with two important numbers to me: 61, the age of my Obaba when I was born; and 88, the age of my Obaba as I write this. A very lucky age.

Cossack Green
hsl(110, 97%, 20%)
...still writing... A green like that kind of grass that is dark and long and particularly lush and always kind of wet feeling.

97 is my birth year and a nice high prime; 20 is the age I was when my disabilities started to present themselves.

Deep Slate Olive
hsl(108, 34%, 08%)
...still writing... It appears as black, but is a dark dark dark green!

08 is a significant year to me because it was the final year of state quarter releases, and I vividly remember when my parents bought the collectible quarter map in a mall because I thought 2008 was unfathomably far in the future.

Grenadine Pink
hsl(356, 100%, 88%)
...still writing... Used sparingly. Honestly it doesn't look like grenadine—it's more like the fleshily pink flesh in the corner of some kind of bird's mouth that I can't locate right now. Like a goose or swan or something. Or like a minute or two before the deepest part of a great sunset.