In her new project, the young American writer and artist explores specific relationships to reading and understanding books. The starting point for her contemplation is bibliomancy, a way of prophesying with the help of random readings of parts of a (usually holy) book or individual parts of a text or verses.
The author’s work process includes intuitive reading of various texts, with which she tries to create a kind of dialogue, a relationship between the reader and the book. Individual parts of the text are then painted over with watercolours or felt-tip pens, leaving visible only those parts of the text that specifically spoke to her or stood out in some other way (spiritual, aesthetic, due to their content …). In most cases, this work method, which she also used due to writer’s block, results in delicate so-called erasure poems.
Katie Haegele is a writer from Philadelphia, USA. She is interested in elements and topics such as mourning, love, books, city life, material culture, cats, and queer theories. After completing her degree in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, she lived in Dublin for several years, where she was involved in literary criticism, journalism, and visual art. She was very interested in self-publishing and in 2004 she published her first zine, a poetry collection called Word Math, in the local punk community. In association with Portland-based independent book and zine publisher Microcosm Publishing, she has published a number of zines and books, including the memoir White Elephants and the essay collection Slip of the Tongue; Cats I’ve Known. She has participated in book fairs and zine festivals such as RADAR, the NY Art Book Fair at MoMa, and various radio shows and podcasts, and has written for magazines such as Philadelphia Magazine, The Comics Journal, and Bitch Media.
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