1) "Lavender Insomnia.” Note: Image+text collage with archival photo of maternal grandparents pictured with aunt Juanita and a diagram (Figure 13) from Geometrical Psychology or the Science of Representation, An Absract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts by Louisa S. Cook, published by George Redway, York Street Covent Garden: New York, 1887. (Public domain image)
2) "Amber Insomnia.” Note: Image+text collage with archival photo of mother and a diagram (Figure 12) from Geometrical Psychology or the Science of Representation, An Absract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts by Louisa S. Cook, published by George Redway, York Street Covent Garden: New York, 1887.
Monica Ong is a visual poet and author of Silent Anatomies (2015), selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and MFA graduate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong has been awarded residencies most recently at MassMoCA, Millay Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. Based in Connecticut, she serves as the User Experience Designer at the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory.