KJR Studios
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner from East Palo Alto, CA
© Kameelah Janan Rasheed. All rights reserved.
Hyperfixation, characterized by an intense and immersive focus on a specific interest or activity, is a common trait in both ADHD and autism.
While often cast as a disorder or disruption, I choose to think about my hyperfixations as a spiritual gift of deep curiosity that animates all parts of my life. These episodes of deep curiosity are often cyclical - not in that they repeat - maybe orbital is a better word. They are orbital in that I am circling or being gravitationally pulled toward something and I keep circling until I get close enough to what I think I am chasing ... something like a ring grazing orbit. I never get there - the point of sustained contact, but I ride the edge and I think this is where the thrill is. It is never about the object of fixation as it is about seeing how far I can push my perceptive capacities to see from multiple points of reference simultaneously.
Thank you to my mama, Gwendolyn Rasheed for helping me “complete” this index.
2025: Exotic Matter and Multiphase Materials; Black Holes (really, all holes)
2024: Orbits; Stellar Ingestion; Black Holes (really, all holes)
2023: Orbits; Stellar Ingestion; Black Holes (really, all holes)
2022: Transhumanism, Life Extension, and Other Efforts to Exceed “Natural” Life Spans or Capacities
2021: Transhumanism, Life Extension, and Other Efforts to Exceed “Natural” Life Spans or Capacities; Doomsday Millenarian Movements/Eschatology; Luxury Survival Bunkers
2020: Transhumanism, Life Extension, and Other Efforts to Exceed “Natural” Life Spans or Capacities; Doomsday Millenarian Movements/Eschatology; Luxury Survival Bunkers
2019: Transhumanism, Life Extension, and Other Efforts to Exceed “Natural” Life Spans or Capacities; Doomsday Millenarian Movements/Eschatology; Luxury Survival Bunkers
2018: Xerox Machines
2017: Xerox Machines
2016: Xerox Machines
2015: Purses; Any Carrier Object
2014: Eruv
2013: Eruv
2012: New Religious Movements
2011: New Religious Movements
2010: New Religious Movements
2009: New Religious Movements
2008: Pan-Africanism; Emily Dickinson
2007: Pan-Africanism; Emily Dickinson
2006: Pan-Africanism
2005: California Eugenics
2004: Libraries and Categorization Systems
2003: Libraries and Categorization Systems
2002: Gel Electrophoresis
2001: Electron Configuration; Martin Luther
2000: Photosynthesis, specifically, photosystem II; Kate Chopin
1999: Calendars and Planners; Graph Paper
1998: Lou Gehrig’s Disease; Xerox Machines
1997: The Scientific Method
1996: Daphnia (water fleas); Carolina Biological Supply Catalog
1995: Daphnia (water fleas); Carolina Biological Supply Catalog
1994: Hypercard Studio; all things computers
1993: Hypercard Studio; all things computers
1992: Lisa Frank Stickers; Clifford the Big Red Dog
1991: Lisa Frank Stickers; Catepillar to Butterfly Transformation
1990: Lisa Frank Stickers; Catepillar to Butterfly Transformation