GATHER
THE STORYI used to walk around art museums with my dad. We did it in silence. It felt a little like church, lots of light and space and reverence. Occasionally we asked each other a question. What do you see? Or the other version of that same question — What do you think?
It was a space where the only effort was in looking and feeling. There were a lot of questions and no one correct answer.
More than an act of creation, more than an act of witness, art gathers . It’s a constant act of translation - a collaborative effort. The questions that arise before, during and after unify the witnesses with a kind of magic: now that we saw that, what do we do?
Local art is important to me. Local artists are important to me.
I gravitate towards performance, visual, and literary art.
THE PLOT POINTSIdentity matters. Authority matters. Context matters.
I don’t have an art history degree. I think it’s okay, because most people don’t either, and I want to write for most people. I do respect education.
I believe in opinions and feelings. Also facts.
Yes — I’d love to talk to you.
THE WRITERShe/Her
Grew up in Jersey
Daughter of immigrants. Speaks Spanish (Colombian) and German (Swiss).
Writing fellowships from TinHouse, Breadloaf, and Yale Writers Workshop.
Nominated Pushcart Prize for the essay “Children We Have Been”, Southwest Review 2020.
“There is something different, something other about the current manner in which people visually document the world. It borrows aspects from art photography, advertising photography, photojournalism, and point-and-shoot casualness, while not quite being any of those things. "
Joshua James Amberson, “Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes.”