Stacey Joy Rossouw is a creative practitioner and early-career researcher. She is currently undertaking a PhD by practice in Visual Communication at Northumbria School of Design, exploring the temporality of a literary archive in partnership with the Wordsworth Trust.
Inspired by writers such as Dorothy Wordsworth, Virgina Woolf, C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft, this site is intended as a commonplace book of sorts, and is an attempt to organise multiple streams of output into an exploratory public index. Extracts are lifted from digital sources, such as Stacey’s offline Obsidian vault (“a second brain”) and from analog sources such as hand-written notebooks and sketchbooks.
Maria Popova describes the act of commonplacing:
…“long before there was the Internet, there was the commonplace book — a creative and intellectual ledger of fragmentary inspirations, which a writer would collect from other books and copy into a notebook, often alongside his or her reflections and riffs. These borrowed ideas are in dialogue with the writer’s own imagination and foment it into original thinking. Over long enough a period of time — years, decades, often a lifetime — the commonplace book, while composed primarily of copied passages, comes to radiate the singular sensibility of its keeper: beliefs are refined, ideas incubated, intellectual fixations fleshed out, and the outlines of a personhood revealed… Partway between medieval florilegium and modern-day Tumblr, the commonplace book has been particularly beloved by poets.”
The Marginalian
Alongside design and research, Stacey makes music and performs as Evelyn Wintyr.
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