January 2026

Weekend Read: Viewpoint & Experience of the Glacial Grooves in Mediated Representation: an Embodied Point of View
A historical treatment of imagery and why a model doesn't evoke the same sense of awe as seeing it first hand.
 • RYAN DEWEY
What Makes a Drawing Human? Accumulation, Attention, and the Limits of Computation
A post about making & viewing images while comparing machine vision & the human hand.
 • RYAN DEWEY
Documentation & Accretion in Expeditionary Postal Practices: A Digest
Postal materials used as instruments of analysis. Notes on handling, damage, & system traces across 101 covers, field-dispatched postcards, & research…
 • RYAN DEWEY
Patterns in Postal Damages: Forensic Analysis of Mishandling Errors in Expedition Covers through Automated Sorting Processes
Patterns in Postal Damages: Forensic Analysis of Mishandling Errors in Expedition Covers through Automated Sorting Processes
 • RYAN DEWEY
Is This Philatelic Mail or Contrived?: Authenticity, Contrivance, & A Porous Boundary
Is this authentically philatelic, or is it contrived mail?
 • RYAN DEWEY
Postcards from Around the Great Lakes
Documenting a practice in real time from field-dispatched postcards
 • RYAN DEWEY
Proof of Concept: Designing & Testing Expedition-Related Postal Artifacts
ABSTRACT
 • RYAN DEWEY
Do postal artifacts from expedition training qualify as Polar Philately?
A 5-part series on postal history
 • RYAN DEWEY
Slow Looking and the Work of Attention: Encountering Everglades Cord
What can slowing down show us about what we see? Much of my work explores the gap between first impression and sustained attention. Everglades Cord…
 • RYAN DEWEY
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