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Image Description: Painting of a girl upon a blue background looking at an empty taxi The day the quarantine ended was the day we matriculated. We could not wait to see each other in real life. I remember she got a taxi to my place. She took the initiative. Over the previous three […]
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Image Description: A young woman reads by candlelight in a dark room. Different modes of conversation have entirely different effects. How does one situate continuous daily conversation in the context of artistic research? How does one make the phrase ‘understand others’ accessible and narrow down the word ‘others’? I look to my surrounding friends. […]
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She heard gunfire in the distance, maybe cannons too, for that whiz of high pitched ascent felt to her like the movement of metal through air, but how could she really know, stuck as she was in her hot, orange room full of rippling smoke and perhaps surrounded by lapping flames, the walls a mere […]
Continue ReadingPlease don’t think I’m crazy but There were stalwarts on street corners And grass stains on your jeans I knew we built the steps too steeply I’m grateful for the space between our mouths Stained red from homemade wine Your kids played on the water’s edge All chubby calves and dimpled fingers I […]
Continue Reading“You must stay drunk on writing so that reality cannot destroy you.” Ray Bradbury As the weather turns colder, it gets increasingly easier to stay curled up in bed, under the duvet, reveling in the warmth of dreams. But you need to get up, tear yourself out of the sheets, and deal with the world. Sometimes […]
Continue ReadingCreative Writing can be taught with experimentation, argues Jingan Young Can you “teach” creative writing, or is it an innate part of one’s being? What makes a great writer? Does it mean you have the command of readers simply through feverish scribblings or that you hold the ability to construct eloquent sentences, intricate threads that […]
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