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artist statement: portraits and self-portraits...
I paint myself at night after the city dies down. It’s a lonely time, and I think about how these painted bodies will outlive mine. I feel comforted that my hand is traced in them forever.
Painting other people is like holding them. I paint them here in my bedroom. When they go, I have this record of how we moved together over time. I usually paint men I’m attracted to. I like to...
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Curatorial Proposal: 13 Ways of Looking at a...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Noticing. Remembering. Daydreaming. Appreciating. The narrator in Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” sees a blackbird with the fullness of his humanity.
Broken into thirteen short sections, the poem translates a blackbird into myth, symbol, and metaphor, then grounds it in nature as an observable fact.
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It was evening...
