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The Emergency Was Curiosity: An Illustrated Book Report Inspired by Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing*

At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, I found myself returning again and again to Jenny Odell's remarkable book, How to Do Nothing. Inspired by Jenny's ideas about the interconnectedness of species and ways to cultivate individual creative attention, I started making a zine as a creative response - a remix of Jenny's ideas through hand-drawn illustrations, collages, watercolors and personal essays about the ways those ideas became more relevant during the pandemic. What started as a "book report" became my own practice of attention, a way of recording what that time was like for me.