Hazel Glass
PSEUDONYM. I dream of a world where writers will be required by law to keep their identities secret and use pseudonyms. Three advantages: a drastic reduction of graphomania; decreased aggressiveness in literary life; the disappearance of biographical interpretation of works.
– Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
Right on, Judge Kundera! He is Law. You [named author] are Crime!
In September 2021, the pseudonym Hazel Glass was birthed in the Barnes lecture theatre. Using this moniker I have been making text, images and performance for the past year, seeking suitable forms of publishing to hold the material I create and the conversations I want to have.
Mostly this takes the form of printed matter that is not replicated online, and performance, at nights such as Soft Shell. My poems can be found in the Good Press in-house publication The Paper. If you are interested in reading anything else, please get in touch!
Three Booklets
Thresholds
A5 booklet with photos, collages and drawn images, colour cover
Concerning uncertainty in creative publishing in the arts.
Prototype edition of 6
The Aesthetics of Research
or more importantly, How do I look?
A5 booklet with colour photographs, yapped buckram cover with hot foil
Exploring cinematic representations of ‘doing research’ and the generative power of vanity.
Limited edition of 30
Dark Academia
A5 booklet, black text on Kraft paper, found text
Facsimile of the Dark Academia page on Aesthetics Wiki, 29 July 2022.
Print as desired
Proxyerotics: Notes on Touch
Reading, accompanied by a slide show of 35mm photography.
Proxyerotics: Notes on Touch is a performance created for an online symposium organised by students of the Writing course at the Royal College of Art, in June 2021.
The theme of the event was Proxyerotics, considering intimacy across distance and technology, and the audience and participants were a mix of writers and artists based in New York, Rotterdam, London and Glasgow.
Full text is presented online in Edition 3 of The Yellow Paper.
