December 2025
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Goodwill Lot Metabolization
I sometimes go to ShopGoodwill and look at the books. Not because I’m shopping, but because I like to look at the weird selections or unusual juxtapositions of the lots.… Read more.
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Palmistry: Chirognomy
A few years ago I learned the word Chirognomy: The corner of palmistry that focuses on the shape of the hands and fingers. The square layout familiar from my tarot… Read more.
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The Enemy of Perfect
If perfect is the enemy of good, let me become the enemy of perfect. If I had a personal motto for this year, 2025 I think it’d be this. I… Read more.
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Tatter
Tatter is a maximalist raccoon. She’s into: I made a pattern a couple years back of a raccoon, and she was born this year in fall 2025. In 2022, my… Read more.
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@artisan_embroidery: Data Visualization meets Fiber Art
There is something satisfying about finding the space in the Venn Diagram that is both. Jordan Cunliffe of @artisan_embroidery creates work that lives in that space. Where data visualization meets… Read more.
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Scrap yarn
Everything is in the middle part of its story. It was something, it currently is something, and one day it will be something else. There was a moment in my… Read more.
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E-waste Basketry
In July I finished an artifact made of waste and time. It started as a tangle of coaxial cable and a spool of thrifted crochet thread. Orange is a meaningful… Read more.
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The Security Envelope
When you receive your daily stipend of mail, there are treasures in plain sight. Careful before you discard the envelopes. They may be precious. For millennia, we have been enclosing… Read more.
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Welcome
Hello, I am Andrea Baka. I am the intersection of magic, data, classification, and art. By day I transform data sets that help stakeholders make decisions. In my free time,… Read more.
