Erica Mena

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Tying Knots: A language of anxiety

April 1, 2019 by Erica Mena

CW: Ableism, mental illness, lots of personal stuff   How might you read this work. If I tell you that each French knot is a wound, or is wound 3 times with 2 strands of floss around a needle poked first front to back through the postcard, then sewn through the pre-punched hole back to front, and returned through the hole. That each hole is placed individually in relation to the work as a whole as it unfolds. That I […]

Categories: Art, Teaching • Tags: ableism, academia, adjuncting, anxiety, aphantasia, art, borderline, burn out, embroidery, mental health, mental illness, neurodivergence, personal

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Not Everyone Gets To Be A Poet

February 7, 2014 by Erica Mena

Anyone who’s been in the academic world as a graduate student recognizes a general malaise that kicks in right about now. The sense of the imminent end of the semester, the end of the degree program for many (and for me this year), the end of funding, the end of certainty. For those still in grad school, but whose funding changes from year to year; for those leaving grad school and entering the whatever-comes-next phase for them; for those with […]

Categories: Poetry • Tags: academia, depression, poetry

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IT'S ALWAYS SUNSET IN THIS PLACE, 2021. French knots hand embroidered on antique photograph of Punkaharju, Finland. One of the new (k)not work pieces that will be for sale this week.
New work about to be dropped for sale this week. First to my @patreon patrons, then to my email newsletter (link in bio), then here on Instagram. Work from this new w@nder series, and some new (k)not work pieces too.
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