E. Rowan Mena

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Sound Art & Accessibility

June 28, 2025 by E. Rowan

I’m a disabled, autistic artist and I find that most public environments are potentially inaccessible to me for myriad reasons, chiefly: the unpredictability of access when I’m using my wheelchair and the unpredictability of needing to talk to strangers to get my access needs met. More and more as discussions around accessiblity enter the art spaces, I’ve been noticing that some institutions are doing incredibly effective work towards inclusion and accessibility around physical space access needs such as ramps, automatic […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: accessibility, art, autism, autistic, neurodiversity, sound art

Tying Knots: A language of anxiety

April 1, 2019 by E. Rowan

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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Letterpress Art for Sale

August 13, 2013 by E. Rowan

Hi Friends! So I’ve decided to get my act together and put some of the letterpress stuff I’ve been making online. I’ve added a bunch of stuff to my Flickr account and intend to be better about updating my artwork there, so if you’re interested in what I’m making, check it out. And if you ever wanted to buy anything that I make (triceratops notecards, anyone?) check out my new store on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/smartmousepress

Categories: Art • Tags: art, books, broadsides, handmade, letterpress, notecards

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Fortino Sámano by Virginie Lalucq

April 25, 2013 by E. Rowan

This complicated little book is actually two in one – a poem and an “overflowing” of the poem, a poem and its poetic exegesis. The first section is an ekphrastic poem written by Virginie Laluq and translated by Sylvain Gallais, written in response to a photograph of the Mexican guerilla and counterfeiter moments before his execution by firing squad. I have not seen this photograph (in fact, when I googled it while writing this, the page refused to respond, and asked me several […]

Categories: Reading Journal, Translation • Tags: art, cynthia hogue, ekphrasis, fortino samano, jean-lug nancy, philosophy, poetry, sylvain gallais, translation, virginie lalucq

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