Tessa Cheek
Tessa Cheek is a Philosophy major at Grinnell College. She was born in Denver but raised in the dry town of Colorado Springs—in a pinch, she can change a car’s tire but not a bike’s.
Articles by Tessa Cheek:
Building Paradise: Design Bibles and Garden Homes
in Issue 22 | Paradise (Nov 2012)the promise of Eden - visual theology - large-format photographs - white-on-white salvation - less color, less clutter, less stuff - hinges on nothing less material than taste - the word ‘house’ for the physical container of a single-family unit - perversely modeled after a billboard - the end of history
Portable Words: a chaotic translation
in Issue 21 | Raw Materials (Oct 2012)LA TIERRA MAS AJENA - someone or other has been teaching you Spanish - the University of Buenos Aires - ‘otherworldly’ and even ‘la-la-land’ - « no, just the same girl in different places » - Flora knew what Alejandra could only imagine - that most abstract appendage - the trees place the leaves
Postcards from the West
in Issue 12 | Home and Pain (Jan 2012)giants developed the West - brand new tribes of homeless programmers - evangelical mega-institutions - follow the links back - an aunt’s arm’s length - you knelt there and harvested stones - non-polluting industries - the comings and goings of missiles - yours, the emptiest room - the thing we mistake for beauty, over and over again