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"The only thing that got him out of bed... was imagining pencil on paper... the scratching sound, the clean mineral smell, the dull pressure on fingertips as the graphite tip dragged dark, shiny lines across cool white paper, diminishing itself to a sweaty nub in the process, transubstantiating carbon into image, into word, into meaning."
— Sep 17, 2024 10:23AM
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"I believe that Allen's art is not so much about remembering as it is remembering, an untidy record of the iterative act itself, the ritual exercise of private and public remembering - in galleries, on stages, outdoors, in the air (on wings of song), and, most elementally and comprehensively, on paper."
— Jun 17, 2024 12:02PM
