Tenseless, untenable
Kind of chaos
Admitting that I want to be a writer frightens me because it feels as though I would have to relinquish my own temporality.
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Author Archives: Blue Fay
La vie en Lizzo
Kind of chaos
The year 2016 was supposed to be one of infinite promise. I turned 19 harboring the secret belief that it was an auspicious age.
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Small-town blues
Kind of chaos
But the true chaos of hyperrealist art is that it takes reality and makes it excruciatingly real, moving it intimately closer to the eye.
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Better apocalypses
Kind of chaos
I have been considering the microphysics of apocalypses. Not blazing lights and the pale horse of Judgement Day, but smaller devastations.
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Tornado season in California
Kind of chaos
When I visited UC Berkeley for the first time as an admitted student, it did feel a bit like I had been dropped from a tornado.
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My mother as a Salvador Dalí
Kind of chaos
My mother taught me how to love art. She taught me to look for detail, to hold space for emotional impact, to decide for myself what feels beautiful.
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Funerary impulses
Kind of chaos
It’s been years, but I still have the black dress and I still think of the W.H. Auden poem at certain times of day when the hills cast long shadows and airplanes fly out of San Francisco.
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Documentary ‘Mike Wallace is Here’ interrogates one of America’s most prolific journalists
The result is a portrait of a man who drags the truth out of others but who is resistant to letting himself be exposed in the same way.
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At Merola Opera Program’s latest commission, the devil goes to the opera
While this might have left certain traditionalists on edge, the promise of catastrophe was enough to draw everyone’s eyes to the stage.
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Comedy as survival: An interview with ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ director Sameh Zoabi
He believes that people caught in the conflict miss leading a normal life. “People want it,” he said. “But we don’t have the leadership to take us there.”
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