Stephanie Smith

@biffybeans.bsky.social

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Writer / Visual Artist. Solo board / historical game enthusiast & designer - 2024 Zenobia Award semifinalist. TEDx Speaker. Amateur genealogist. Late dx Autistic/AuDHD

Photo shows a copy of the book Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna atop a flowery fabric background.
Green box with the words “Alley-Up” in white capital letters. Image on box shows a blue dexterity game where you have to try and roll a marble back and forth to climb to the top of an inclined plastic tray. It has a date of 1971 on the box. Made by Hasbro
A low purple bowl sits on a blue tablecloth. The bowl is filled with ham, green beans and cut potatoes with a folded piece of buttered bread rested on the side. The handle of a vintage Silco Empire spoon juts out from the side. A tablet sits on the table with Jimmy Fallon, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon on the screen.
Image shows three pyramid shaped stacks of small box board games intended to look like Christmas tree shapes with a string of Christmas lights wrapped around each stack. There is also a stack of playing cards and small tin games, a bowl filled with blue dice, a dice rolling tray, additional dice and game pieces scattered around the piles I
Image shows a black and white bookmark for a now defunct indie bookstore in Santa Monica California called Midnight Special.
Image shows a hand holding the box of board game called propolis.
Image is of Ken Kesey’s book “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” The cover of the book is colorful- bright green, yellow, pink, and orange and the book is sitting on a wooden shelf.
Image shows 3 unique radially symmetrical cut paper snowflakes each approximately 7” in diameter lying on top of a well used grey Alvin brand cutting mat. One snowflake lays on the upper middle half of the mat with the other two in the lower half- one in the lower left corner and the other in the lower right. The snowflakes each started as an 8.5x11” piece of copy paper which was then cut down to 8.5x8.5”. They were then folded into triangles (I had to look up a YouTube tutorial to understand how to fold and cut the paper so the snowflakes would turn out roundish instead of square.) then cut with scissors to create random designs. (As opposed to following a pattern) Because the paper is folded before being cut and this photo was taken shortly after unfolding the cut paper, none of the snowflakes are fully flattened.
Jacob Elordi as the Frankenstein monster.
Photo is of the game Finspan
Image is a screenshot of the author while giving a TEDx Talk entitled “Art as a Spiritual Practice: What I learned from making 10,000 mandalas”
Video depicts a folded handmade paper structure that can be manipulated to show different images of the artist’s work.
The hand written word Soften is centered over a stylized white circle against a background of vertical stripes in various shades of pink.