Soup as Method

Fellow: K. Rae | Category: Case Studies

K. Rae is a literary editor, poet, and self-taught visual artist who emerged from Baltimore and DC performance scenes. Prior collaborations include the Underground Rainbow Experiment and SCRIBEONHIGH consulting work, along with disability justice participation through People’s Hub and Fireweed Collective.

Fellowship Project Overview

The fellowship focused on launching SCRIBEONHIGH, described as a cultural strategy think tank. K. Rae developed “Soup As Method”—a narrative research toolkit blending tarot, the bicycle deck, CSS Archetypes tools, and daily life pattern recognition.

“The method has nothing to do with the tarot, bicycle deck, or astrology at all and everything to do with how you read your everyday life, connect dots, and see patterns.”

The methodology’s name draws from the “is cereal a soup” meme and Hortense Spillers’ conception of ideology as “nebulaic & soup-like.”

Deliverable: “a world for us”

K. Rae produced an interactive book combining artwork, poetry, stories, and prompts designed for group use and self-reflection.

SBS Impact

Story-based Strategy shifted the focus from product-oriented art toward interactive, relationship-building work suitable for group discussion and prompting.

Recommendations

K. Rae advocates for paid apprenticeship programs: one for QTBIPOC youth and another for disabled people in career transitions.

Engage with the work: www.scribeonhigh.org | @scribeonhigh