My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses

In the summer of 2025 I completed a project in partnership with Chris Fritton at the Artist Residency at Directangle Press in Bethelem, NH. The books are a reboot of Fritton’s poem “My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses” and features 10 two-color illustrations. The final products are letterpress- and linocut-printed, and the body of the book is risograph-printed.

It explores the relationship between science, memory, and light, attempting to tease out an elegantly simple analogy that at first sounds preposterous, but proves to be absolute physical fact: the human body emanates detectable light.

It's the romance of science and the science of romance; it's about what it means to remember and forget, and what that looks like.