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Day 17: Secondary Events | 28 x 20
One time, two narratives | Art by Odili Donald Odita
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Day 16: Blow It Out | 28 x 20
Before you know it, you are swimming | Collage by Shane Allison
Feb 16 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 15: Joe and Shane | 28 x 20
Eating apricot pie and trying to open a coconut with a knife
Feb 15 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 14: What's In a Name | 28 x 20
Born like me | Art: Kara Walker
Feb 14 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 13: Proof | 28 x 20
Look, see for yourself | Photo by Duane Michals
Feb 13 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 12: Small Talk | 28 x 20
Yikes | Photo by Irving Penn
Feb 12 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Bread Crust and Curls
A Kāi Tahu family and the texture of becoming
Feb 11 • Ariana
Day 11: Hand Writing | 28 x 20
Getting meta | Screenshot from a film I don't remember seeing or taking
Feb 11 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 10: Tribute | 28 x 20
The caretakers of your reinventions | Photo of Colson Whitehead via The New Yorker
Feb 10 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 9: Wisdom | 28 x 20
Voices of innocence and experience | Photo by Jaclyn Martinez for The Bitter Southerner
Feb 9 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 8: Guts | 28 x 20
Less force, more allow | Art by Hilma af Klimt
Feb 8 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Day 7: A Why | 28 x 20
If it feels easy, keep digging. | Art by Philip Guston
Feb 7 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley
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