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Pass-through is a short story about an unorthodox family dealing with loss and grief, two years after the death of Andrew, the father, son, and husband of the rest of the family. Pass-through takes place in a big, crumbling house in Vermont or New Hampshire over the course of two days in October 2023. The denizens of the house - a woman named Catherine, her two children and mother-in-law fight frequently as they try to collectively come to terms with the death of Catherine's erratic husband two years prior. They rarely talk about him and have not cleaned out his office yet at the start, but when they do a whole lot of unwelcome feelings and memories will be coming at the family very quickly. I focused on illustration and editing, while project partners Bridget and Zahra both took the lead in writing and editing each other's work. We all collaborated on the brainstorming and combined our styles of storytelling to craft this world.

This studio was difficult for me-- I was the only person in the whole group who had ever done OI before, that it was very stressful on top of the fact I didn't know anything about Bridget or Zahra before this whole thing started. Chris had noticed this, and was able to help me understand how to best be a good teammate to both of them-- I took his feedback to heart, even if it was difficult at times to input it into practice. I was a bit overeager to share and create at the beginning of the studio, and it was not giving either of them the chance to share their own ideas. This changed over the course of the studio, and we all learned how to work well with each other-- eventually bringing us to a point where writing and designing was easy.