Alexandra Sasha Shahinfar

We ought to venture inside, to see what vulnerability we can discover within ourselves without the performative exhibitionism encouraged by our world.

From rising hate speech to the travel ban to the attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, our country is staggeringly anti-immigrant.

We cannot proceed as though time is linear, as though our reputations are the only things at stake, as though the past is a dusty relic.

It was crushing, admitting to myself there wasn’t a single piece I could remember how to play in its entirety without mistakes, a deserved blow. 

Our consumer culture is exceedingly pervasive and the proof is in the pudding — or rather, the 20 different selections of pudding.

In a time structured by confinement and isolation, people are, on the contrary, being more expressive; the act of dressing up has become something subversive, even. 

en les musées d'art weaving between the people the blue walls and the  wall-flowers,  where perfumes and people linger alike, 

But superstition defies logic. And that’s what this was: a superstitious practice.