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my favourite type of existentialism is when god enters the equation (sorry the stranger and steppenwolf and metamorphosis). can already feel that this is gonna be a five-star book

"Among the pitfalls of writing about art made by those with different cultural backgrounds is the temptation to fix our gaze solely on the familiarities and the unfamiliarities, on the neutral and exotic, rather than on the area in-between—that fertile, liminal ground where new meanings germinate and where common experiences in different contexts can provoke new bonds."

"I felt as if I'd opened Pandora's box here. Everything came flowing out. Because that's what we ask for, isn't it, really? To have this thing happen. That's why most of the time I say, 'Gee, the last thing to be interested in is painting' Per se, you know. I think other thing release you to make paintings."

"... without this resistance you would just vanish into either clarity or meaning, and who wants to vanish into clarity or meaning?"

"I think a painter has two choices: he either paints the world or himself."

Everyone must read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous before this. You won't feel the extent of this collection's gravity otherwise

"even in our curated fury
the act of witness degrades us
we still live like the clouds
are ours alone to watch
with abandon"

"diaspora is negotiating the terms of betrayal"

"Nostalgia is bidirectional. Vantage point makes all the difference. America becomes a repository of unceasing fantasies, the sublimation of our curdled angst. It does not move. Not until we move over it, or back to it. Self-deception is an occupational hazard of returnee life."