9: nyshka chandran, china's queer cinema subtitle army, teaching afrofuturism in a pakistani classroom, inventing the rice cooker
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The pandemic has been such a time of evaluating. Taking a careful scalpel to things, days feeling alternately crisp and spongy like these images from Nehemiah Grew’s 1680 book Anatomy of Plants. Who I want to be or rather not be, what kind of writer I’d like to be, what the next few years should or even could look like, beyond the nonstop, hurtling hustle of freelancing. I can’t do that forever, not like this. I’ve been moving away from art writing recently, partly because nothing’s been on, but primarily because, well—how can it possibly be sustainable in the long run for anyone not on staff? And then there’s the art world, and all its politics, and all the people that might have once seemed rather louchely appealing but now mostly disgust me. I’d like to engage with art without all that.
9: nyshka chandran, china's queer cinema subtitle army, teaching afrofuturism in a pakistani classroom, inventing the rice cooker
9: nyshka chandran, china's queer cinema…
9: nyshka chandran, china's queer cinema subtitle army, teaching afrofuturism in a pakistani classroom, inventing the rice cooker
The pandemic has been such a time of evaluating. Taking a careful scalpel to things, days feeling alternately crisp and spongy like these images from Nehemiah Grew’s 1680 book Anatomy of Plants. Who I want to be or rather not be, what kind of writer I’d like to be, what the next few years should or even could look like, beyond the nonstop, hurtling hustle of freelancing. I can’t do that forever, not like this. I’ve been moving away from art writing recently, partly because nothing’s been on, but primarily because, well—how can it possibly be sustainable in the long run for anyone not on staff? And then there’s the art world, and all its politics, and all the people that might have once seemed rather louchely appealing but now mostly disgust me. I’d like to engage with art without all that.