When was the first prayer? Was it immediate, a direct appeal, like Abraham’s plea that God spare Sodom? Or was it asymptotic, a request that the petitioner be somehow granted an exemption from the world’s sorrows?
A little death—a sky with geese stitched on. My fears are all explainable— it’s cortisol, it’s fate, the jerk of mercury, the joints’ arthritic prescience about rain.
In 2022, with no formal training, no understanding of my visual-art skills, and a deep yearning to be vulnerable again in my studio practice, I became a cartoonist.
In 2010, the Spanish government came to an agreement with the European Union that formalized what was already a deep, generational shift in the country’s relationship to coal, a resource that had profoundly shaped the economy and culture of...
