Lydia Chodosh is a Brooklyn-based designer, educator + writer who likes playing with language. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design [2024].
Selected Design Work
On the Impulse to Notate
To read is to
Artifactual Accumulations
Interior Atlas
Artifacts of Countability
Spore Site
RISD GD MFA Biennial
Clock Studies
Translations of Gratitude
Atlas
Art Direction
Harper’s Magazine
Volume 1
A Guide to the Politiverse
Are.na
© 2024
Rhode Island School of Design
This collection of rulers and stencils turns “count-ability” on its side. It demonstrates the contradictions inherent to the act of measuring one thing in particular: the qualitative components of stories. To define a set of narrative structures, as we have done throughout linguistic history, is to allow for a transparent look at the manner in which meaning is made. Perhaps this transparency enriches one’s eventual propensity for storytelling. Perhaps, instead, it limits one’s ability to see beyond the surface and narrows the potential for stories to fill other voids.