Mirror Conversations at Miami Art Week: Raw Pop-up
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Portal Into Another Time
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Woman. Life. Freedom.
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On choosing to live a creative life
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I want to lead a creative life, she said. I want to be surrounded by beauty. I want to challenge my notions of how things are and replace them with the questioning of what things could be. It has taken me a long time to get here. To listen to that voice I know has […]
Braiding words || Trenzando palabras
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And when everything else fails, let’s distract our minds in learning so we don’t get lost in yearning… …y cuando lo demás falla, a distraerse en conocimiento, para no perdernos en sentimientos. I braid words in this apothecary full of hope, and yet with the realistic outlook of experience. I’m full of hope, because we […]
Performance piece and poem: To a God.dess Unknown
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