hi, my name is catherine leigh schmidt. welcome to my page. i'm an artist, designer, and writer from the united states. i live in new mexico, usa.

i make paintings, code websites, take photographs, design books, and write essays.

at the moment i'm interested in landscapes and cars, the market for diamonds, and men. i also maintain a list of special interests.

i work with clients on design projects. my portfolio is available on request.

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selected projects

Disconnection Practices, a zine about using your smartphone less, in collaboration with Max Fowler, 2019

Panacea Publishing, an interdependent press that supports exceptional, underserved writers in pursuit of apocalypse, est 2021

Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression, an NFT in collaboration with ecsa, 2023

Yatra, a font published by Google, 2016

writing published elsewhere

AMAEBCH 아마업체, exhibition text for show of the same title at Museumhead (Seoul), with Daniel Shinbaum, 2022. Cryptocurrency, like astrology, is a protocol for imagining and influencing the future.

Decentralized Autonomous Occultism, Spike Art Magazine, January 2022. Magic is a technology of imagination, and technology is magic made tangible.

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fun facts

• i prefer my name in all lower-case in professional contexts.
• i am a child of corporate multinational expats and evangelical missionaries.
• i'm a utopian.
• i am (mostly) a quaker.
• i identify as a hot girl.

special interests

• nuclear power and nuclear weapons
• masculinity
• liberatory computing, computer literacy
• html and css, html energy
• post-capitalism (specifically, economic media)
• christian theology
• the deep past
• mining
• astrology

friends

JT Riley — mutual aid farmer

Ben Pieratt — namer

Ron Turetzky — vending machine communist

Pablo Somonte Ruano — interface anarchist

zofia krynicka — siren

Evan Sangaline — William Morris enjoyer

Adina Glickstein — urbit historian

Orion Reed — computer liberator

Drew Mosman — ferry rider

Gabriel Hollis — pianist

Simon Whybray — children's book author

Patty Kim Hamilton — the best playwrite

want to be on my friends list? please let me know.

to come

• writing
• paintings
• photos

last updated November 2025