Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
Sigrid Nunez
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Taylor Mead. Photo by Bert Pence. Courtesy of John Leon Gallery
Alf Young makes portraits by suspending, one at a time, several lengths of sheer fabric in front of his subject. Tracing the person’s image onto the fabric. Each of the layers of lines are slightly out of sync. The images seem to stir. He is showing them at the newly established John Leon Gallery this October.
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Georgia Marsh, Paul Bowles, Michael McClard, Olivier Mosset & Fred Brathwaite, and Duncan Hannah. Cover by Mary Heilmann.
Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
Sigrid Nunez