How have cameras changed the way we look?
Derivation: The Artificial Kingdom by Celeste Olalquiaga.
What objects remind you of home?
Derivation: Thoughts and research on a possible essay topic about home and the things that will always remind us of it.
What is your favorite thing about summer?
Derivation: an upcoming trip to Boston!
What is the origin of perception?
Derivation: Thinking about the origins of making, what causes us to form thought, etc.
What happened in the last year that you didn’t expect?
Derivation: Conversations during my brother’s birthday.
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Is everything about money?
Derivation: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. Also, general wariness induced by some Kurt Vonnegut quotes about doing harm. And then looking around and wondering what it’s all form. (A vague “it” meaning the work we do, the lives we lead. Other pseudo-existential bologna.)
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What are your favorite foods?
Derivation: Being home for the holidays. Eating/drinking nearly everything in site.
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What does community look like?
Derivation: An essay in the Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2008 by David Gessner.
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What bad (secret?) habits do you keep?
Derivation: A secret: all the illustrations for this week are sneak peeks of what’s to come in the soon-to-be-printed issue of Sonora Review, which I illustrated.
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Is tradition important?
Derivation: Thinking about tea, tea time, and traveling. Nothing, really.
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