Stephen Parks was TYPA’s artist in residency from October-December 2025.
Stephen Parks is a designer, artist, and educator working in Deep Gap, North Carolina, U.S. Parks’ self-publishes under the moniker Constant Ritual. Constant Ritual is a small collaborative studio meeting writers, designers, and artists at the intersection of printed matter.
Parks’ design research spans the investigation of whole earth systems and our embedded social intimacy with these topics. He sees printing as a means of processing and thinking about dynamic planetary systems and earthly occurrences.
In December 2025 he opened an exhibition titled, “Kokkupõrke rada/Collision Path — Not For Words” at Rõdugalerii. “Kokkupõrke Rada/Collision Path” is a book that explores motifs of belief systems and their embeddedness in communities to foster reassurance, well-being, and awareness. The work explores a journey in the process of designing meaning, both individually and collectively, and how popular beliefs are systems of navigation.
The project is inspired by a German school of philosophy pioneered by Friedrich Schelling, who encouraged the idea that nature is one with spirit. The term collision path refers to the cultural similarities between the Appalachian Region in the United States and Estonia. Composite images of offerings, community, natural patterns, and site-specific locations build on the meaning of correlation through dissected language.