Category: Work, Identity & Reinvention
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Shedding the Canvas
The painting hung before me. At nine by seventeen feet, its presence dominated the room and its scale enveloped my attention. I sat on a bench in the gallery and let the chaotic splatters and kinetic streaks pull me into Jackson Pollock’s world. I was on the fourth floor of MoMA, sitting next to an…
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A Context. A Frame.
It feels like my body has been stuck in survival mode for years. Like there is a persistent threat looming above. Part of it, I’m sure, is the 24-hour news cycle, American and global politics, social media feeds ratcheting up FOMO. There’s the reality of AI displacement and its related doom cycles. But I can…
