Alzheimer’s translation: Acrostic
Field guide to his message: a tree of
underripened fruit
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Bone Above Our Heart
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“So natural history is very much a visual endeavor for me, and collecting data is ultimately an act of making observations with regards to museum specimens.”—Brandon Kilbourne
One Day Your Voice Will Become Mine: On Kalehua Kim’s Mele
“This book is a palimpsest, an encapsulation of influences. Here are the remnants we collect from our loved ones, from our days, the bits of dialogue, the stories, images, and small gestures that mold us. How can we mend and be mended? Through the attempt, the insistence, to forget nothing.”
Interview// “The Unfamiliar as Poetic Landscape”: A Conversation with Ally Ang
By Summer Farah
I love how the act of paying attention defamiliarizes spaces that I’ve been to many times before and makes them feel new and exciting.—Ally Ang
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