The Quiet Year is a chapbook collection of poetry and artwork from Seattle artist Laura Allen. It features selections from her 2016 oil collage series based on the poem ""Cities"" by H.D., as well as a dozen new original poems. Excerpt from the title poem: .".".the green gets over everything like a false rind, a quilt like pale lichen crept from the edges of rocks, shoes, discarded paper. it keens in color. it is excessive. it hides within its own trending entropy: itOs popular and all the cool kids have it, like a new mycelium under the skin...""

This compendium of projects, writings and interviews focuses on how the field of drawing expands synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. In reflection of a society now underpinned by computational networks and interfaces allowing hitherto unprecedented views of the world, the changing status of the drawing and its representation as a political act demands a platform...