Writing
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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…
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Correspondence #27, To my Alien Friend, on Creativity
March 1, 2022
Dear friend
I hope this letter finds you well, I know in the past this has been quite difficult — them having to travel such long distances. From your last letter, it has become apparent that you wish to learn more about our species. While unfortunately, it is impossible to…
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A Trip To, and At, the MET
December 19, 2021
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“Surrealism Beyond Borders” the exhibit read. White text against sky blue. Entering the space, a galaxy revealed itself, each painting its own world against the space-black walls. A wardrobe whose wooden doors, just ajar enough to peer past them, fail to conceal the impossibly vast landscape contained within it. A…