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If you could see my thoughts you would see our faces
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"When I reflect on where I am here in my 30s I often think about the multiple tuck-ins you were done with when you were my age, in Pasadena, shouldering your multiple griefs alone--"
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Photography after photography after photography

A new piece of what is now apparently called long-form criticism, coming here in a while.

Under discussion: Jessica Eaton; Lucas Blalock; Marten Elder; Scott McFarland; Kate Steciw; Owen Kydd; Thomas Albdorf; Marina Pinsky & others.

Image: Jessica Eaton, cfaal (mb RGB) 18, 2010
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"In the end, the only thing that could create the necessary traction in our minds was the intimate loss of the things we loved." (Zadie Smith)
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"Heidi & Co. can replicate any creature, realistic or imagined, from photograph, computer image, conceptual sketch, or even just from written description. Any size from the tiniest mouse to a life-size horse, in any pose, or with clothing or costume, etc. If you can imagine it, Heidi can create it in plush for you!

Materials utilized are your choice of available genuine mohair or synthetic fur fabrics, leathers, glass or plastic eyes, etc.We accommodate Vegan-specific orders upon request.We ship world wide.

You may also opt to have your plush replica include a hidden velvet inner encasement designed to accommodate ashes and serve as an unbreakable memorial urn. Or your plush replica can be made into [a] riding rocker for a child!"
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1701 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs CA, 2018
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Also: Fairfield Porter, Forsythia and Pear in Bloom, 1968
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ACT (Aesthetically Claimed Thing): Fairfield Porter, Sunrise on South Main Street, 1973
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Ali Smith, author
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, Attorney General of Canada (Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca)

Don Morgan, Attorney General of Saskatchewan (jus.minister@gov.sk.ca)


Ms. Wilson-Raybould; Mr. Morgan:

I am a Canadian citizen and settler resident on the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, the traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

I write to you today with regard to Gerald Stanley’s acquittal in the shooting death of Colten Boushie.

Criminal trial verdicts are judgments on individuals’ actions at specific points in time, but they also send messages about the behaviors that the society that created those laws is willing to accept or condone.

Like my indigenous friends, and many other concerned Canadians, I am deeply offended and saddened by Stanley’s acquittal.

Stanley was acquitted by an all white jury, whose ethnic makeup was not reflective of the community in which the shooting occurred.

The jury verdict says, in essence, that the life of a young indigenous man is worth about as much as a coyote’s or a wolf’s, feral animals that can be put down if they stray onto settlers’ property.

The verdict has cheered Canada’s burgeoning population of alt-right activists, who now feel emboldened to attack and harass indigenous people everywhere in Stanley’s name.

The verdict also makes a mockery of federal and provincial governments’ attempts at reconciliation with indigenous people. Reconciliation for settler governments’ genocidal policies toward indigenous people must involve more than words.

When there is no justice for indigenous people, there can be no hope of reconciliation.

I urge you to appeal the Stanley verdict. The facts of the case dictate a different outcome. Indigenous people – indeed, all Canadians – deserve a more just and fitting verdict.


Sincerely yours,


Christopher Brayshaw
Vancouver
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FKD, 2018
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Chelsea (2), 2018
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Study for Ali Smith : How to be Both : 2014, 2018
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Chelsea, 2018
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 "Cezanne's Doubt," by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

"Just as we may observe the movements of an unknown animal without understanding the law that inhabits and controls them, so Cezanne's observers did not divine the transmutations he imposed on events and experiences; they were blind to his significance, to that glow from out of nowhere which surrounded him from time to time. But he himself was never at the center of himself: nine days out of ten all he saw around him was the wretchedness of his empirical life and of his unsuccessful attempts, the debris of an unknown celebration. Yet it was in the world that he had to realize his freedom, with colors upon a canvas. It was from the approval of others that he had to await the proof of his worth. That is why he questioned the picture emerging beneath his hand, why he hung on the glances other people directed toward his canvas. That is why he never finished working. We never get away from our life. We never see ideas or freedom face to face."
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