Megan Carpenter – UCLA Department of Art

memories of you in the dark:
1. somewhere in the midwest, first time seeing fireflies, I caught two and you told me they had begun mating.
April 2021
cyanotype
5.5” x 5.5”

memories of you in the dark:
2. in the garden, I had told you I experienced things twice, but the second time wasn’t real. and you told me this was deja vu, and that you had experienced it, too.
April 2021
cyanotype
5.5” x 5.5”

Text reads: That on one day we sifted through
roots and leaves of the oak tree,
To hold them round in hand
That on another day she’d floated
These little boats down
a creek

Foreign Encounter
That on one day we sifted through
Roots and leaves of the oak tree,
To hold them round in hand
That on another day she’d floated
These little boats down
A creek
January 2021
oak gall
the size of one’s palm

Foreign Encounter
That on one day we sifted through
Roots and leaves of the oak tree,
To hold them round in hand
That on another day she’d floated
These little boats down
A creek
January 2021
oak gall
the size of one’s palm

Text reads: “The adult female wasp lays
single eggs in […] leaf buds.
The wasp larvae feed on the gall tissue…
Which modify the oak bud into the gall,
a structure that protects the developing larvae.” Wikipedia

Foreign Encounter
“The adult female wasp lays
single eggs in […] leaf buds.
The wasp larvae feed on the gall tissue…
Which modify the oak bud into the gall,
a structure that protects the developing larvae.” Wikipedia
January 2021
oak gall
the size of one’s palm