Drawing on Tempered Glass is a book based on digital drawings I began working on in 2018. These drawings, phrases, and poems are intimate studies of overwhelming themes like outer space, body autonomy, consciousness, privacy, and memory. Immersed in small swipes and taps on tempered glass, I lost track of my everyday life. I let go of the taunting minutia and trauma of our digital culture produced by content impetuously published for consumption on the same surface I was working on. I wrote about my personal entanglements with technology, as well as my evolving connection with my body and spirit.

A book seemed like the perfect form to bundle these experiences together — a closed circuit that could be revisited again and again, or just sit on a shelf as part of the reader’s lived experience. It is an object meant to be held and studied. Ink imprinted on pages vulnerable to smudged fingers. Rather than the endless possibilities of a digital space, a book has an order, a life, and it will age. And yet, this final presentation was crafted with curiosity and surprise in mind, requiring the reader to change the book’s orientation and question the layers of meaning suggested by the design choices. This book asks for your focus and attention, and ultimately, that’s all any of us have to give.

Book preorder details coming soon!




Erin Barach
First printing, October 2025
Drawing, writing, editing.
Kristian Bjørnard
Book Design and some words.
Additional design assistance from Nastya Lavryk
Additional editing by Joseph Young