Writing
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Means
July 4, 2023
I’ve been running after—chasing—a song recently and my roommates must think I’m crazy. I play it once again as soon as it slips away, the speakers in my living room surely growing frustrated. It’s like I’ve become a kid playing with a wind-up car, taking just as much…
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Why You Get Good Ideas in the Shower;
January 10, 2023
A Phenomenology of Deletion
My New Camera
Two camps have divided photographers for the past 100 years. Each insists that their respective system to frame a scene is superior. The first and most popular is the SLR (single-lens reflex), wherein the shooter is presented with an exact representation of what…
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In Defense of the Unusual Education
June 3, 2022
This piece was originally published in NYU Gallatin’s Publication Confluence. Click here for the original published version.
By now, I’ve rehearsed my answer to the inevitable question through countless introductions. At parties, huddled in a circle, conversation competing with the music, the usual questions spiral their way around the…