Creatures of the Shallows

For slow looking, investigations of you on waters edge, who look out over the horizon and contemplate getting in.

AUDIO, POSTCARDS, ZINES, DRAINS, IDEAS, PUBLISHED ITEMS

Curated by Creatures of the Shallows.

Where the water meets the shore

-

A confluence of flowing thought made tangible

-

Where the water meets the shore - A confluence of flowing thought made tangible -

In collaboration with NAME of the _____________, BIO AND OTHER INFO HERE

Find Chelsea’s works for sale here!

Julie Patarin-Jossec also of The Resistant Muscle, is a multimedia artist and sociologist whose practice explores queer and multispecies relationships with aquatic environments. Working across moving images, performance, fieldwork, sound, and experimental imagery, she develops projects that question extractive ways of seeing. Born in France, Julie is based in Chicago

In collaboration with Julie of the Resistant Muscle, BIO AND OTHER INFO HERE

Find Julie’s works for sale here!

Coming FALL 2026

Art Book Fairs in Chicago

About this project

Our collaborative publishing practice is a confluence of photography, art, and feminist research through zines and small-edition printed works. 

Working across artistic practice and feminist environmental theory, we explore edge effects where water passes, materials, collaborators, and political forces. Our publications examine aquatic environments through feminist and multispecies perspectives, foregrounding practices of care and embodiment.

In our work, the printed page becomes a site for experimentation where images, text, and alternative photographic processes coexist. Our publications invite slower forms of attention to rivers, lakes, oceans, and the communities—human and more-than-human—that inhabit them.

Along with zines, we present limited-edition books and prints that extend our investigations into tactile and accessible forms of independent publishing.

Creatures of the Shallows | Chelsea Goodwin & Julie Patarin-Jossec