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Fragments

I think a lot about death, the act of dying, the act of mourning. I’ll be writing about it more, just to express and connect some dots. I’ll start with this post and continue on with others. What follows is a series of thought or fragments attempting to synthesize what I have been ruminating on for a while. I have been fascinated by what appears to me to be a general apathy about the dead and…

Dry Ground Burning - A Lesson in Imaginative Filmmaking

So I saw this film last year, summer of 2023. I wrote something then that’s been sitting on my computer since. Sharing now. When I saw Dry Ground Burning, I made it my personality for a few months. I also went on a deep dive into Brazilian cinema, particularly Afro-Brazilian cinema. Will write about that maybe… In the making of Dry Ground Burning, filmmakers Adirley Queiros and Joana Pimenta…

Meditation on Violence

Last year, I visited Wangechi Mutu’s exhibit at the New Museum. The show featured over a hundred pieces from the last 20 years or so, as well as some recent work. I also originally wrote this last year, but recently found this in my G-drive and decided to post this here Across the years, the Mutu’s work has evolved to include a variety of different mediums like her most recognizable collages,…

short recollections of my escape/arrival

In an attempt to be less precious about my work, I will be publishing writing I have published elsewhere on here as well as writing that remain in my folders. As much as I cringe at my writing, I always want to hear what people think. No one writes for themselves alone. These posts will be rough, short, meandering, etc. But they’ll exist and that’s all that matters. Plus, it would be nice to…

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The mYth of the Zombie

I wrote this for a magazine a few years ago. I am republishing it here because the essay is only available in print. I haven’t made any changes to it but might take up these ideas in the future. The zombie has allowed popular culture to imagine a destructive end to our modern world. The zombi myth in Haitian folklore was not a macabre, flesh-eating “thing”. In Haiti, the zombi is a corpse…

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The High Seas

A few years ago a Mauritanian registered fishing boat with over a dozen bodies landed in Trinidad. Using forensic clues, like cellphones, clothing, and the bodies themselves, investigators were able to identify the people on the boat as migrants from West Africa. These migrants were attempting to reach Europe through the Atlantic crossing rather than the increasingly militarized Mediterranean…

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