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Defamiliarizing New YorkFabrication, Print

Defamiliarizing New York was one of my first forays into printed matters. I wanted to make a booklet to accompany one of my favorite holidays, the Winter Solstice. I made a limited edition of 6 copies of the book to hand out to different folks in my life. The book asked people to engage in a series of questions and prompts surrounding rituals and holidays, using defamiliarization as a reference point for each question. Defamiliarization is a process by which familiar things are described in different terms than usual to make their appearance novel

once more. I chose a runic aesthetic for the book, wanting to incite some feelings of an old tradition coming from a snowy land.

The book is separated into six sections:

Preface
People
Rituals
Shedding/Hibernating
Warm/Cold
Reflections

Each section asks different questions, and there are pages in between for participants to write down answers in words or drawings. Childlike whimsy was strongly encouraged.

Illustrator Icons

Cutting out cover symbol

Indesign file

Compiling pages

Cutting pages

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