Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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On Lucian Freud and the Violence in Looking
A meditation on Lucian Freud’s portraits, mortality, and the violence of looking, from familial intimacy to the abyss of horror. “To paint in the way Freud does, always from life,…
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Could we find another way?
“I had a dad with a stout body and glasses and prominent calf muscles and skin that reddened easily and fingers strong from a life of piano and wavy hair…
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Empty White Christmas
“My brother, I decided, was so awfully angry, brimmed with fuming, outrageous words that he’d sewn and strung together in long, awkward streams that slammed into my heart because he…
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Notes From the Isle Seat
A raw meditation on grief, voice, and the brutal clarity that follows loss—urging writers to abandon polish and write with unflinching truth.
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Whispers of a Dying Spring
“If all the misery of the heart were to be portrayed, I would pick you up for such an exhibition, With the fear of getting betrayed, I never fret myself…
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Rituals of Departure
A peculiar man he brushed his teeth before and after each meal and slept on clean bed sheets each night, a full set (including pillow covers) for each day of…