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Imagining Berlin
I want to imagine Berlin. It yearns to be x-rayed. We must examine its broken bones.
Some Minor Meditations on Imminent Change
None of us really have any idea about what to do from here, but we’re sure it’ll be fine either way.
The Butterfly Effect of Sharet Garcia
"That’s something that we being undocumented go through. We don’t really know how we’ll do things, we just start them without really knowing the outcome."
A Take on Ericka Hart’s Self-Portrait
Hart's self-portraiture engages with disability art as it focuses on a self-representation that explicitly rejects and complicates traditional representations of breast cancer survivors and people with impairments/disabilities.
Together at the Movies
My nickname is, in many ways, a stowaway from another life. The simple, happy life that my mom and dad had built in the Rockaways of Queens.
Hands of God
An instrumental electronic composition meant to bring about a feeling of transcendence and trance.
Cultural Entrepreneurship
Episode 3 of Nucleus: The Confluence Podcast. "There’s value in the power of certain artists realizing that the market has that influence, and using it to their advantage."
What Makes a Person?
A comparison of the Buddha's, Sigmund Freud's, and Carl Jung’s understanding of personhood
