11 essays
Writings
Lyrical essays and short prose — sometimes companion pieces to the visual work, sometimes their own quiet thing.
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3 stories about love
story 1
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5/2 Richard Bach Street
part1
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Afterlife
I’m in purgatory, waiting for my appointment with God. Standing in line, waiting for the verdict. Chewing gum with the flavor of afterlife. What does that taste like? A little like cherries mixed with…
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Botanical Bridge
I’ve loved doing backbends since childhood. I never managed a proper cartwheel or handstand, but the bridge was always my strong suit. In my first yoga classes, Anya praised me for my bridges but warn…
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Instruction
To ground yourself, you need to fall into the rich black soil of a grandmother’s garden, somewhere in the summer, at the end of June. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have your own grandmother with such…
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it’s a sad and beautiful world
The shattering began with a phone call from a friend. She shared one of her own sorrows with me. Hearing the heaviness in her voice, feeling the weight she carried, felt as if each word were a stone p…
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Nest
…so I wove myself a nest. One I can carry with me.
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Our Mirror Diaries
Recently, I visited Yulia Stoshek’s art foundation, and an entire floor was dedicated to artists’ diaries. I noticed one very simple but striking video work, where the artist created a stop-motion vid…
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Uno dúos tres cuatro
The celestial mines lie a million meters above sea level,
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Vulcanization
Vulcanization* — a mysterious alchemy that turns soft, pliable rubber into something enduring and unbreakable.
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yo-yo and despair
Last night I dreamt of erotica, and then — a terrorist attack, as if I’d bought a ticket for a connecting flight with a layover, and suddenly the airport was being bombed.
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