This zine and artist-book-making workshop investigates image-making, foraging, and storytelling as practices entangled with ownership, authorship, and belief. All three rely on acts of taking, naming, and imagination—gestures that can be warm, extractive, or both. We will lean into these muddy waters, asking what it means to gather materials and stories without claiming them, and how fiction might operate as a strategy for care rather than deception. Led by photographer Dylan Hausthor, participants will leave with a hand-printed book.

About Dylan: Dylan Hausthor (they) is a photographer and bookmaker based in a Christian Science church in Rockland. To help write this biography, Dylan contacted a forensic medium, who suggested that they “probably hide secret messages in the things they have to say, and should avoid driving Volvos”. They are a Guggenheim Fellow and just had a baby. https://dylanhausthor.com/

Watershed Workshops have a pay what you can ($5+) registration fee, to help offset materials costs. If this fee is a barrier, please get in touch with us at langlais@grlt.org—we want everyone who is interested to be able to participate.