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MAGIC AND SPARKLY STARS AND JOSH GROBAN OH MY

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Thank you Garrett for lending me the reflection through your lens... one of my favorite pieces at the Whitney (second to Madani's Shitty Disco). Hearing Raul de Nieves speak about the progression of his work was very admirable. In an exhibit crowded with paintings and live demonstrations embodying violence and its ramifications, I felt Raul's piece brought back a lot of the sensitivity and remembrance surrounding loss and mortality. There is continuity to life... there is renewal.

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Apparently they turn off the water fountains for winter (but it's officially spring???) so I awkwardly stood there and took a picture instead to make sure no one judged me for staring at the fountain as if I had never seen one before......

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A walk for the heart after the 9/11 memorial today. Today really tore me to pieces. Memory is a reconstructive, healing force -- like a glue of some sorts, formidably persistent yet peculiarly malleable over time. It is the memory of having loved and then lost, or perhaps lost and then loved, which elucidates the vulnerability and lucid fragility of humanity. Even with void, with destruction, and with violence, our life's energy lends us to a delicate network of human connection and spiritual continuity. We stand together, with hands and hearts full of hope and faith, even after we've mourned and we've pained and we've prayed. Love, empathy, compassion. We give because we have received, perhaps by the memory of having and sharing that lingers. We cry because we have suffered, perhaps by the memory of happier times and less lonelier days. We all extend from the same framework of mortality, walking from birth and to death we all share the same denominator of being, because we remember who we are and why we are living. I took this picture along the Hudson River, with the meandering lullaby constantly reminding me of just how loud silence can be. It symbolizes such intersectionality of our dimensional living - harmony and dissonance among natural, physical, spiritual, emotional. But the Hudson muffles our cries and dampens our loneliness; the Hudson reflects the sunshine and caresses all of the misshapen junctions. The Hudson forgives and forgets. Soothes and slumbers, a peace that transcends the seasons and connects us all back together again.

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Experimenting with the light, also the Armory has the most unique stage by far -- a donut-like shape around the audience, moving. Sets slowly rotate into scene or away out of sight.

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A putrid yellowing, a jaundiced yellow, reeking of warning and reeking of radioactivity. Drink, don't think! Lest you will find out where you truly belong...

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Container lashing bars... established to insure the value of goods on marine vessels. MoMA adventures

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It is an absolute honor to be exposed to such vigor and rigor of art forms. Thank you to everyone who has helped make this trip possible so far and for allowing us to experience and live in an entirely different dimension. Only day 3 and I have already grown and seen so much. What is the function and form of security regarding art, and what does it reflect about our society’s values? How do you justify the value of art with respect to the harder sciences and technology? How do we preserve and respect traditional art forms while considering the highly diverse populations of our world today (does everyone have the same access, education, passion for the arts)? The answers are never black and white. It’s up to ourselves to be politically, socioeconomically, historically, spiritually, morally aware of who we are, what we are doing, and how we fit into the world around us.