Category Archives: Art

Self-Referentiality: Internal monologue turned external dialogue

What do the expat+HAREM, Dialogue 2010 and Lady Gaga have in common?

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Woe Is Me

Exploring the various facets of women’s literature and where my first novel, AMERICAN MONSTERS, fits into the debate.

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Wild Things Make My Heart Sing

Reflections on the magical and terrifying film “Where The Wild Things Are”.

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Intimate Strangers

The first in a series of reflections on the incredible Dialogue 2010, curated by Rose Deniz and on the topic of hybrid identities and location.

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Frida, I’m In Love

I took this snap while taking a bath today, and then edited it with Picnik. Every time I take a soak looking at my feet reminds me of Frida Kahlo’s painting What ...

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A Playlist for Our Nobel Peace Prize-Winning President

This is a great playlist, Mr. Wild! However, aside from Freda Payne and Patti Smith, it's a bit lacking in the female talent. Here's a few to balance out the gender scales a bit: *'TIS OF THEE - Ani DiFranco *PEACE SONG - Indigo Girls *DEAR MR. PRESIDENT - Pink ...

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‘Til Kingdom Come

I read my first Stephen King novel when I was 12 years old. The book was Carrie and the year was that of the Gulf War I, 1992. Thus began a love affair with King's books that has continued to shape my life until today. This ...

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A Love Letter to Focus Features

Written on a postcard of your fuzzy dots and lights logo as it comes into clarity:You never failto evoke, provokeand change the wayI see worlds.Where a stamp that looks like a film reel could go:Tucson, ArizonaJune 7, 2009Watching the brilliant Hamlet 2 and ...

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LOST in symbolism

The Season 6 finale of "LOST" featured a gargantuan statue of the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek. Being fascinated not only with "LOST" but also Egyptian mythology (I even took ...

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A Love Letter to Dexter’s Kill Room

Written on a postcard of a plastic-sheeted room with a surgery table in the middle:Oh.Yes.God is with you.Where a stamp could go but it won't stick to the saran wrap:MiamiJan 23, 2006You are my hero.

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A Love Letter to LOST

Written on a postcard of The Island, shifting between the now and then:Your brilliancetranscendsspace & time.Where a stamp could go but there is a Hatch instead:Somewhere in the PacificJanuary 22, 2009Thinking it's amazing to know I'm not the only one who has dreams that ...

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Not a Love Letter to Stephenie Meyer

Written on a postcard embossed with the cover of the Twilight series' finale, Breaking Dawn:Did someonedrop youon your headas a baby?Where the stamp could go that if needed I would affix with a smear of vomit:PragueJanuary 23, 2009Is what's wrong with you this ...

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A Love Letter to Giselle

Written on a postcard made from the Enchanted DVD box:Iwannabejustlikeyou.Where a stamp could go but your song will deliver it:October 31, 2008Andalasia, across from The Valley of ContentmentYou are so lovely an inspiration.

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A Love Letter to Soma Witt

Written on the buffalo hide Shaman's rattle that is your voice: This is the slow painful rasp of healing incomplete. Where tobacco smoke will take this: October 24, 2008 Memory Lane I need more of you.

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A Love Letter to Bavian Frodi

Written on a postcard of your Faery Oracle card Number 38, Laiste the Moon's Daughter:Your visionsare a bridgeinto a world I alwayswanted to visitand now realiseis all aound me.Where I've no need for a stamp because surely a nice faery will deliver it for me:October ...

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