Tag Archives: Pratt

Garbage World

I am drinking coffee with my back to the window; the day gets me through the screen and outside it feels green, lush, sunny, worthwhile, but I need to push through this last bit of work before it is summer … Continue reading

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Olive in the background, eating flies.

I have just arrived home, my glass is full, and the sun is setting through the new leaves outside. There are only thirty more days that I will watch the light fade from these rooftops and walls. Tomorrow is my … Continue reading

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Tuesday, Morning

There is big smoke churning out of the chimney I can see through this window, stuck on top of one of the buildings with their backs to us, on Bergen Street. While we were sleeping snow fell in polite amounts … Continue reading

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Bringing it Back

I have been absent for some time. I have been writing papers about contemporary photography and old masters’ paintings and papers about Lewis Carroll’s problematic images of young girls and creating super sad photo installations while listening to Leonard Cohen … Continue reading

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Weekend Slushpile

It is…..SATURDAY. I am spending it as one should: eating a hoagie in jammies, drinking coffee and nestling deeper into one’s parents’ new couch. There is work to be done: quizzes to grade, writing to do, photographs to make. But, … Continue reading

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For Everyone

I am lucky, thankful. For the people who call you when a storm, a monsoon is raging outside your window and you are inside your apartment putting on your flimsy raincoat and packing your waterproof bike bag and tell you … Continue reading

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SPECIAL EDITION: concatulations!

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Celebrate, with Cats!

GUYS GUYS It’s SUMMER. I am halfway to having a terminal degree in my field. Of sad girl art stuff. Last week, to motivate me to keep working, the dear sister of my Bearded Companion, a fine lady named Ingrid, … Continue reading

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“Slumming it for Libby Cross”

Three years and four months ago, in a faraway land, I met an impressively put-together young Australian woman named Libby Cross in the International Students Office at Leeds University. From the beginning our unshakable union has been…puzzling, at least to … Continue reading

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Loney and Arthur

Okay guys, I go to school with the rad girl named Loney who does things like cutting her own hair in a way where it looks really cool and making small houses out of sod and ant farms and being … Continue reading

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