B: wavy cliches, cultural entitlement, painted skies,

My first culture diary from Dubai—!

thursday

At 1am I tune into a Zoom panel about spiritualities and religions of the Indian Ocean. I’m working on a long essay-mini book about Indian Ocean art and relatively unfamiliar with the academic side of things but trying to get a better sense of a very amorphous field. The panel is fascinating but also strange to…