Current Projects
A Theory of Body
A novel about art, desire, and the uneasy intersections where intimacy becomes spectacle, and the body becomes material.
The story follows Penelope “Pennie” Harrington, a young assistant curator in late-1980s New York, as she is drawn into the studio of the celebrated artist Ivan Oklopić, whose beeswax figures and live hives blur the line between creation and consumption. When Pennie agrees to model for a full-body cast, she is physically immobilized and emotionally exposed, pulled into the orbit of Esmeralda “Esme” Lakatos, an enigmatic assistant whose attention feels both tender and strategically placed.
The novel examines the seductions and violences of being seen, the ethics of art-making, and how power rewrites consent, leaving a person haunted by her own image.
Beauty & Terror Inhabits Breath
A cycle of interconnected stories shaped by the Novi Sad Razzia, the 1942 massacre along the frozen Danube.
The pieces are written in fragments that move between horror, witness, and remembrance, each one carrying a trace of what history could not hold.
From these stories grows a larger meditation on violence, resilience, and the shadowed edges of memory.
In Her Blood The River Flows
A novel about inheritance, art, and the uneasy intersections where memory touches the uncanny.
The story follows Moira Graufeld, a young artist whose migraines begin to distort reality during a tense October gathering at her family’s lake house. As visions of ancestral women break through her perception, she and her father are drawn toward a buried history that refuses to remain silent.
The novel examines the quiet devastations of family life, the strange mercy of art, and the ways trauma settles into the body.
The Daimon Archive
A long-form narrative project that interlaces the Graufeld family’s contemporary lives with the hidden histories, visions, and ancestral transmissions that shape them.
Drawing on Jungian thought, intergenerational trauma, Danube Swabian history, and the liminal spaces between art and psyche, the Archive explores how memory becomes myth and how myth finds its way back into the world.
Here is a passage from The Daimon Archive, a work that explores family, memory, and the mysterious currents of inheritance. Here, the figure of Miklós appears, weathered by exile and marked by secrecy, carrying echoes of survival and silence across generations.
A curated collection of essays that blend Jungian psychology, personal stories, and myth. These pieces emerge from dreams, visions, and lingering memories. They journey through fire, shadow, illness, and the slow process of renewal. Each image below offers a glimpse into inner life, inviting you to explore the raw, vulnerable, and evolving aspects.
