petrichoric
Services
Design, Creative Writing, Photography
Client
Myself
Project
petrichoric
Services
Creative Writing Art & Design Direction Photography Book Layout
Year
2024
A book of original poems, film photos, and short stories I wrote over three years. Themes of grief, familiarity, love, and transformation—inspired by music and myth. This is a world of threes: three beliefs, three branches, and three birds. I wanted this book to feel like walking through a museum during an evening storm: florid and faded, but a reminder that not everything is fleeting. When you read, or even just flip through, the art is yours to interpret in as many ways as you want. Paintings, artifacts, tapestries, a spilled cup of coffee… this is your museum now. But remember, you never see everything on your first visit…
A book of original poems, film photos, and short stories I wrote over three years. Themes of grief, familiarity, love, and transformation—inspired by music and myth. This is a world of threes: three beliefs, three branches, and three birds. I wanted this book to feel like walking through a museum during an evening storm: florid and faded, but a reminder that not everything is fleeting. When you read, or even just flip through, the art is yours to interpret in as many ways as you want. Paintings, artifacts, tapestries, a spilled cup of coffee… this is your museum now. But remember, you never see everything on your first visit…
I wanted to have a piece that fully embodied each section, so I decided to write a short story for each to serve as the throughline for each concept. I hadn’t initially planned this, but when I was discussing the idea in my time studying abroad, I realized it would help in bringing all the different threads together.
Plus, I was taking an Irish Fables and Folklore class in Dublin, and we had to write a short story as an assignment. Inspired by poets Oscar Wilde and H.D., I wrote “a crane named Heliodora”. After that, I was certain that I wanted to write two more short stories for the book; "Cassandra of Air" and "Starsong".
I wanted to have a piece that fully embodied each section, so I decided to write a short story for each to serve as the throughline for each concept. I hadn’t initially planned this, but when I was discussing the idea in my time studying abroad, I realized it would help in bringing all the different threads together.
Plus, I was taking an Irish Fables and Folklore class in Dublin, and we had to write a short story as an assignment. Inspired by poets Oscar Wilde and H.D., I wrote “a crane named Heliodora”. After that, I was certain that I wanted to write two more short stories for the book; "Cassandra of Air" and "Starsong".
This experience taught me that I love to use as many threads as I can to weave a web, sometimes to my detriment. Editing this was more challenging than writing it, as I had double as many poems initially than what made the final cut. I wanted this to be cohesive without feeling too easy to pin down. If it seems like something is connected, it is. If a line feels familiar or references some other poem or work, it does. That's my favorite part of this project, is just how many threads intersect and braid together, creating a song in and of itself.
This experience taught me that I love to use as many threads as I can to weave a web, sometimes to my detriment. Editing this was more challenging than writing it, as I had double as many poems initially than what made the final cut. I wanted this to be cohesive without feeling too easy to pin down. If it seems like something is connected, it is. If a line feels familiar or references some other poem or work, it does. That's my favorite part of this project, is just how many threads intersect and braid together, creating a song in and of itself.
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