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Olivia de Salve Villedieu


Books

Atlas, Pural, Monumental
High Art: Public Art of the High Line
Et Al 

Bon Appétit: The Food Lover’s Cleanse
Mark Bittman: How to Cook Everything Fast
Body of Work (Thesis Book & Presentation)
End of Days
An Inconvenient Sequel
TED Books

Yale School of Architecture

Process Book

Thesis Compendium

Notebooks 1–15

The Fantastic Archive of Jordan Schwamm

Print

New York Times: A Brief History of Bras in Crosswords
The Baffler: Conserving Liberalism
Editorial Infographics
Modern Farmer Magazine
MoMA Kids Guides
MoMA Swag & Podcasts
Play, Practice, Prototype, Critique
Riso Form Zine
Exquisite
Informed, Weekly

The Petit Cinema of John Baldessari

Remoldable Body

Environmental

THC NYC

People, Place, Influence (MCNY)

Striking Beauty

Ma Bell: The Mother of Invention In New Jersey
Dorothea Lange (MoMA)

Art Lab (MoMA)

Private Lives Public Spaces (MoMA)
MoMA Temporary Signage System
Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (Rutgers)
Silver to Steel (CMOA)
Re—Circulation (MFA Exhibition)

Objects

Floppy Tools
Harry’s Holiday
Pin Me Against the Wall, Baby

Arthur Moon

Feeeels Scarf

Identity

Circa Brewing Co.

Unbound Art Book Fair
Recess

Mélange (other)

Arthur Moon: Singles
Exhibitionism
Making It New 
Painting With Paintings
Mission Blackwell
Wikipedia Still Lifes
Bound to the Eastward / Cruising to the Westward

New Life Form

Miscellaneous Things

Videos

Release

Apprendre le Français en 30 secondes
Palindromes 1, 2, 3

Interviews

Miranda July

Tereza Ruller (of The Rodina)

Essays

Making It New



Mark

Bound to the Eastward /
Cruising to the Westward




At the Providence Public Library, I found a whaler’s log kept by a sailor that documented two voyages. The first journey was from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to the South Pacific Ocean aboard the Marcella (1836–1838) and the second was a return voyage to New Bedford aboard the George & Susan (May 1833–1841). The journal was entirely handwritten; an elaborately drawn title on each page noted the location of the boat or in which direction it was heading. Inspired by these directionals and the circular motion of the trip, I decided to examine the whaler’s log using Aristotle’s Organon.1 I created ten plates, six inches wide by nine inches long, one for each classification, one for each of Aristotle’s classifications. The reader can either start at “Cruising to the Westward,” inspired by the Marcella voyage, or “Bound to the Eastward,” inspired by the trip taken by the George & Susan. The reader is guided by arrows and a gradient to follow the cards either left or right, depending on the direction of their chosen journey. The Marcella side of the cards examines ways in which time is circular, while the reverse—the George & Susan side of the cards—focuses on circular space. The distorted and playful typography on the cards is intended to reference, but not copy, the playful nature of the typography found in the original log.



[1] Aristotle’s Organon states that ’every object of human apprehension can be analyzed within ten categories: 1. substance 2. quantity 3. relation 4. quality 5. place 6. time 7. position 8. state 9. action 10. Affection


William B. Haskell’s journal aboard the whaling ships the Marcella the
George and Susan from May 26,1836–July 12,1841.


Mark

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