Emily Greenquist

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Not Just Turquoise Dear Dorigen, Today I’m wearing a sweatshirt in a color that perfectly mixes our autumn palette’s Kingfisher and Marine Navy, with a hint of Peacock. Some might say it’s just turquoise. I say it’s …

Sharing a new post. Read "Not Just Turquoise" at DorEm Answers... doremanswers.com/2025/10/28/n...

Fabulous fashion

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Collage image of a wolf and veggies, titled Gathering

'Gathering'

Collage image of a row of plants, a fire, and shoes titled Homemaking

'Homemaking' (This one was featured in the book, Disease is a Mirror www.emilygreenquist.com/disease-is-a...)

Collage image of a dog with duck and knife, titled "Hunting"

A while back, I posted a collage that I mistakenly thought was my work, but was indeed @emilygreenquist.bsky.social (In my defense, we do store all of our collages together in one folder!) But also, this collage was part of a series. This one is called 'Hunting'
The other two are below

Exquisite corpse image of a ballet foot below with a hand holding ballon on top

@emilygreenquist.bsky.social and I did a few exquisite corpses today. This one is based on, and on the back of a word of the day calendar page. The word was “jocular”

that vine The singular vine doesn’t climb the house. It’s rooted eight feet away, stretching across the bramble backyard, angling upwards to point to ...

"The singular vine doesn’t climb the house. It’s rooted eight feet away, stretching across the bramble backyard, angling upwards to point to an upstairs bedroom window, as if to say..."

"that vine" at BROOCH littleedie.blogspot.com/2025/06/that...

lol. And we’ll 100% forget who did which collage again. Thanks for including me! Love these pieces. <3

Thanks @whistberry.bsky.social! Thanks @mustachepete.bsky.social!

Collage art with a skeleton walking through a mountainous landscape

Thought I'd start posting some of my collage art.
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dressing rooms a response to Katrina’s “forever is finite: brick and mortar nostalgia" In dressing rooms, I try on clothes and listen for sounds of mothers...

"...pluck a seed from my tongue and pretend it’s stolen tobacco."

Read "dressing rooms" at BROOCH littleedie.blogspot.com/2025/03/dres...

plans I’m too old and not old enough to tie pieces of my hair in two ribbon bows, one on each side of my head like a child preparing for a perform...

"promises to self-infantilize, self-aggrandize, invite confusion, play..."

Read "plans" at BROOCH littleedie.blogspot.com/2025/03/plan...

I needed a binder. I ordered three Trapper Keepers.

more office buddies And then we heard scratching in the walls.  The noises began after a large flock of birds flew from our roof in an all-at-once theatrical fl...

"And then we heard scratching in the walls..."

Read "more office buddies" at BROOCH
littleedie.blogspot.com/2025/02/more...

Illustration from Albert A. Hopkins’s Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography (1897)

"I was a preteen the first time I attempted Henry James. That summer, my “Books I’ve Read!” library sheet almost exclusively listed teen horror novels by Christopher Pike..."

Read "Whispers at the Altar of the Dead" at Peripety and/or Tronies

peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2025/02/from...

You are somebody. And I wish somebody would tell me what day is it?

"Always around, its antennae seek something—perhaps to point to another mess—but now, they point to the back room..."

Read "office buddies" at BROOCH littleedie.blogspot.com/2025/02/offi...

Olivia Cronk’s ROMERO - YouTube

Olivia Cronk recently reposted many episodes of her haunting video art project, ROMERO. I’m lucky to have collaborated on and appeared in many of them. Watch the playlist of available episodes, starting with “Did you summon my man to a railroad room?,” here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

a cold snap Faux fur-lined socks, boots, hats, gloves, leggings, everything itchy—a simulacrum of warmth—traces of blush on my puffer coat collar. I’d r...

"I pluck a sock hair from my mouth and answer, 'My dad’s old button-down worn backwards and covered in paint.'—"

Read "a cold snap" at BROOCH littleedie.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-co...

drawing attention to the aging hand Some nail polishes stay put.  A distinguished wedding guest ritual eventually becomes an outgrowth of burgundy—waning nubs: slop. Evidence. ...

"Yes, my preening is an unpreen..."

"drawing attention to the aging hand" at BROOCH littleedie.blogspot.com/2025/01/draw...

Thanks for including me ❤️

Scarf This dress is two, maybe three sizes too small for me. With the tag still on, I pluck it from the front of my closet and fantasize about pee...

"...this heavenly shade of golden muck is just so hard to find."

"Scarf" at BROOCH: littleedie.blogspot.com/2024/12/scar...

Mocha Mousse Dear Dorigen, After over a year, I’m still figuring out how to best navigate life as a Soft Autumn. Muted earth tones are very hard to find outside of a sandy beach. Like, when picturing a brown to…

"take that clean top off the hanger and throw it directly in the middle of any beach..."

Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year: Mocha Mousse 17-1230 at DorEm Answers: doremanswers.com/2024/12/27/m...

Decades I aspire to dress like I’ve been plucked from some rain-soaked, classy-violent city in the 1970s or from a ragtag spaceship on its way to a ...

"I'm not about to approach an iron-gilded moon base orbiting a wild gas giant..."

"Decades" at BROOCH: littleedie.blogspot.com/2024/12/deca...

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Disease Is a Mirror: A Lyric Memoir interweaves imagery and prose, exploring themes of illness, identity, intimacy, and the evolving self.

It’s available wherever you get ebooks; here’s the Amazon (Kindle) link: a.co/d/4I8pZxt

Disease Is a Mirror on the Radio - YouTube On September 29, 2024, WZRD Chicago radio featured an interview and sound collage with author, Emily Greenquist, including excerpts and discussion of Disease...

I was featured on WZRD 88.3 Chicago radio, chatting with “The Wizard” about Disease Is a Mirror, and sharing excerpts and a playlist of songs I put together. Check out the full playlist here:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...