information that was available via printed playbills during the show. the script was also printed and avialabe (see below)

“All around the world we’ve been drawing suns in the top corner of our pages. Oh how tender it is when our corners align! First one big, full, sun. Then many suns. And underneath it all, we’re holding hands. 

We begin with a 650-square-foot unstretched canvas that lived outside as much as it did inside. It was often dragged around with the help of good friends and kind strangers. Time collapses on this scale. Fast remembers slow. Big returns to small. Cartoonish snuggles up to drippy. And classical is learning to live with messy. 

Nearby, theatrical objects and playful movements are narratively entangled with the painting, and turn the rest of the gallery into a theatre, a house party, and in my wildest dreams, a forest. 

Using the “fourth wall” as a medium, this show wrestles with how chaos and intimacy interact on personal and absurdly existential levels.”

questions i was thinking about

• Is it wrong for people to make society changing choices without getting consent from the rest of society?

• Can societies consent?

• Do we all deserve a say in how things change?

• Is it possible for everyone to have a happy ending?

• If we have the capacity to question it, do we have the capacity to make the right choice?

• How can I take up space with humility? 

• What happens when we bring fantasy and reality closer to one another? 

• Imagination is a privilege, how can it be shared, passed on, tended to, cared for, and put to good use? 

• If we can hope for it can we imagine it? If we can imagine it can we pretend it? If we can pretend it can we rehearse it? If we can rehearse it, can we be comfortable with it? If we can be comfortable with it, can we do it? If we do it, can we do it again? If we can do it again, can we get used to it? If we keep doing it, can we share it? Can we pass it on?

Important words people have said to me this year that always run through my mind

Fiza Khatri:

• “Every idea you have, find a way to make it happen”

• “Redirect your doubt into curiosity”

• “Most of the making we do is not coming from a rational place. And we just need to let it run its course”

Raya Simpao, passed on from her RISD painting professor: 

• “Just go out into the world and look around. Whatevers looking back at you that’s your subject matter”

Byron Kim:

• “Its okay to not know whats going on. I just wait until I can catch up”

Robert Hernandez, who constantly reminds us of the Mayan greeting, Lak'ech Ala K'in, which translates to:

• “I am you, you are me, we belong to one another”

Central texts

• "Wakanda Doesn't Have Suburbs: How Movies Like Black Panther Could Help Us Save the Planet", by Kendra Pierre-Louis

• Imagination as Privilege, by Shaun Leonardo 

• Conversations Before the End of Time, by Suzi Gablik 

• What Is Post-Branding?: How to Counter Fundamentalist Marketplace Semiotics by Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb