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Kerry Mansfield’s Notes to Self
… Notes to Self Sea Change The coast near Sea Ranch, a community in Sonoma County, California, has a kind of … fastidiously documenting this place, revisiting different points along a ten-mile path and capturing its topographical … over time. Mansfield’s background includes formal studies in drawing and architecture; in a way, she says, …
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Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen’s Notes to Self
… Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen’s Notes to Self Character Studies Let this be the moment the phrase “Klassen eyes” was … that, in all its simplicity, might well be their most complex so far. Triangle, Square, and Circle were originally … down even further led them to reconsider certain fundamentals of storytelling, character among them.  “I’ve always had …
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Aanchal Malhotra’s Notes to Self
… way of understanding the world,” she says. “It’s an all-encompassing experience. I learned things about the humanities … there. I learned how to be a person of the world when I studied engraving.”  In 2013, nearly burned out, Malhotra … archive, this was a way of building that archive. The website allows people to write stories about ancient objects …
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Susan Orlean’s Notes to Self
… has been steeped in this particular bibliophilic tragedy, coming to it by way of her book-in-progress on the 1986 … is an investigation not only of this particular crime but also the lens through which you look at our relationship to … be to write about a library; I had been thinking to myself, Wow, I love stories about how places like this function . …
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Erin Thompson’s Notes to Self
… the summer of 2020 had a visual refrain, it was of statues coming down, the likes of Jefferson Davis and Christopher … patrilineal statuary was right in her wheelhouse: “I had studied how the Islamic State, for instance, enforced their … making himself the “cog of a wheel.” That praise, Thompson points out, was barely veiled: “He needed workers who …
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Richard Blanco’s Notes to Self
… Blanco had spent the previous year working on several commissioned occasional poems and had been exploring the … the poem to cooperate, to syncopate with the photo while also standing on its own. How to lock into the subject of … a single line. Flirting with a title. “I can’t fully commit to a poem until that warm-up is done—what I like to …
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