Welcome
This digital home serves as the quiet backbone of The Year I Became — an annually rotating self-education project inviting you to live and explore the life of your dreams, one year at a time.
What you’ll find here is the layered infrastructure beneath the surface: writing, research, film studies, poetic fragments, and personal reflections. Not everything will be obvious. That’s by design.
For this year, the focus is The Year I Became, A Film Critic, but you’re welcome to explore wherever the archive leads you.
About This Archive
Built and maintained by Elijah A. Bland (E. A. Bland), this space preserves the intersection of poetry, curation, memory, and meaning. Each wing reflects a different discipline in practice — from found poetry to repertory programming — all guided by curiosity and creative legacy.