ANDREA MAURI

🍺 iBeer, 💄 Fake Moles, 📜 Instruction of Ptah-Hotep 40, and more.

Andrea Mauri is a NYC/ATX-based creative whose work you've likely encountered– whether through a party flier for I Hate War (the party series she runs with her sister, Cina), her freelance creative direction for Frost Children, or a @wormtriip post. She does it all: a PhD student in Apparel Design at Cornell University, co-founder of the band Aftertouch with Angel Prost, blogger, occasional cave excavator, and pioneer in Party Archeology– a new field examining temporally-based celebratory gatherings of the past. Lucky for us, Andrea is here to share what she's been into.

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Instruction of Ptah-Hotep 40

Around 2375 BCE in Egypt, the 96-year-old political advisor Ptah-Hotep was ready to retire. With approval from the king, his son was named the successor of the great vizier only on the condition that the senior leave him adequate instructions on living a life according to Maat. Of the many wonderful maxims included within this ancient text, #40 is unquestionably my favorite. As a party girl who is dating another party girl, Ptah-Hotep’s advice always reminds me to listen to the light heart that emerges from such practices of celebratory indulgence — whether that be screaming lyrics front row at my girlfriend’s band (Frost Children) performance, dancing with my sister all night at an I Hate War party, or pulling pranks in the green room at Baby’s All Right with the Kerwin brothers.

@andrea-mauri

Mar 28, 2025

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iBeer

The iBeer app is great to open when you want to performatively chug a pint of 2010 iPhone aesthetic beer in semiotic solidarity with your friends who are interested in collabing consumption rituals and the club. When you download iBeer (or even a sister application like iCigLite), you open your phone chakra to the possibility of an iPhone Samsara.

@andrea-mauri

Mar 28, 2025

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Dear Aisha, Vol. 1: Can I Have A Minute of Your Time?

Daniel Bejar’s short publication is a series of true back and forth emails between himself and a scammer pretending to be Aisha Gaddaffi, the daughter of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. As he responds, pretending to be the scammer’s brother, the exchanges between the two become a genius exploration of identity fraud. The book even comes with its own pop-up scam emails advertising get-rich-quick schemes and body-enhancing pills.

@andrea-mauri

Mar 28, 2025

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Fake Moles

Since 2021, I have been drawing a fake mole on my face with eyeliner. I usually do it just below my waterline on my left eye, but lately I have been moving it around. Fake moles utilize the point element of design and draw the viewers’ attention to a desired area of visibility or balance out unevenness. I quite like my eyes, so I point viewers there.

@andrea-mauri

Mar 28, 2025

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Archaeological Excavations

The first time I encountered a human body in the earth was at an archaeological excavation I dug at in Transylvania. Delicately cleaning the dirt off of another human being who lived 600 years before me left me in genuflecting respect of the great loves that led to this person being so gingerly placed within a wooden coffin, supine and facing north. My entire career trajectory has been shaped by holding each of the individual fingers of this very loved person’s hand. If you’d like to get involved with an archaeological dig, you could try shovelbums.org.

@andrea-mauri

Mar 28, 2025

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