Creative Things — Alainna Brennan Brown

Poetry and Personal Writing

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Painting of Tetons viewed from the east with the sunset behind the peaks and a river running at the base of the mountains.

Painting of a decorated Christmas tree on a purple background, with strands of lights and groups of ornaments representing the timeline of decoration.

A painting of a series of gold boxes representing steps in a design process on a green and yellow background.

A painting of a spiraled vine with leaves and clusters of orange, red, pink, and purple flowers on a yellow background, representing a design process over time.

A painting of a volcano with a hiking path with points along the path representing different points in a design process.

A painting of a collage of materials found in first aid kits on a red background, with yellow bubbles denoting multiple steps in a design process.

A painting of a silver star on a blue and purple background with four sets of dots radiating outwards in orthogonal directions, each dot representing a point in a design process.

A painting of a series of horizontal blue stripes on a background of orange and yellow, each blue line labeled with types of experiences during a design process in red lettering.

A painting of a chart with magnitude on the x-axis and time on the y-axis, with six colors of dots (colors of the rainbow) present on the plot, all on a white background.

Design Signatures

The gallery above contains artifacts from Cindy Atman's “Dear Design” Directed Research Group at the University of Washington, winter 2022, exploring personal design signatures.

Podcasts

Sam and I are starting a medical geekery podcast! He wants to do podcasting again and I want a space in which I don't forget everything about clinical medicine while I'm in my PhD phase. Stay tuned!

Indiscipline

(The Rough drafts)

Coming in 2023. Almost certainly. Maybe.

If I give myself a deadline to record the music I’ve written since the pandemic started, I’ll actually do it. Stay tuned…

Original photo by Erin McLean. Album art by Alainna Brennan Brown.

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Lyrics Work

In 2009 and 2010, I penned what became the lyrics to the vocal tracks on The Pretext's eponymous 2011 album. Keaton Armentrout, the stellar musician behind The Pretext, now composes and performs as Moss Ives.

Bands and composers I love…

Aislinn Logan ANÚNA The Candlewasters eleventyseven Falling Up Morten Lauridsen Ottorino Respighi Paweł Górniak Reuben Hudson Wintergatan

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