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“Art + Me”

“I am taking an art lesson. The first one, I think, in my whole life. Because we are in the middle of a pandemic, the lesson is via FaceTime and my teacher has his iPad pointed at his easel and I am standing watching him on my laptop.”

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from Defacing the Monument

“Sometimes it helps to sit inside a building and imagine what it would be like to wreckingball its walls, in order to make sense of one’s orientation.”

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“A Meditation in Cihu, or What Will Become of All That Bronze?”

“Alabamans may attend Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery and Jefferson Davis Community College in Brewton. High and middle and elementary schools named for Jefferson Davis serve students in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia.”

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“The Unfinishing: My Photographs of Alex”

“I remember feeling compelled to keep shooting, and I did so every day. It was as if I had just been skimming the surface of things until I lived on his land.”

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“A Nomadic Wedding”

‘Nurbolat regretfully informed Dmitri, Dan, and I that we would have to change the dates of the trip unless we decided to attend a wedding with him. He told of drinking, feasts, all-night parties. We could not but accept.’

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“American Conjunctions”

“Who is unfocused comes into view”