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What are some things you enjoyed about your triptych experience?

The creative piece (in the center) is from a book-length memoir manuscript. I had been working on isolating this short piece, hoping it could stand on its own. Something didn’t feel quite right but then I saw the call for submissions for triptychs and began playing with the piece. I knew I wanted to use a list for the left side column (I love lists) and I initially tried another list for the right side column (the contents of my mother’s wallet). The wallet inventory list detracted from the alias list so I cut it (it was also too mundane to work here). Then I thought more in terms of music video pop-ups and started playing with definitions and interesting facts. I almost did that column entirely of lipstick facts. It was a fun process to look for facts and tinker with them in the column. It felt a bit like a puzzle – what if I move this here? What if I swap this out? How does it look now? My goal with the facts column was to add a bit of light to the piece. The center is quite heavy, which is probably why it wasn’t working so well as a stand-alone piece. The triptych format opened it up, gave it a bit more levity, some space to breathe.