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Home is Home

Mallory Nezam — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:19:36 +0000

The fluorescent light bore down but had a way of beating off her skin like daylight. The way her son put it, she could turn anything around. She built her empire in the water, of the water. She knew her empire was her skin and bones. The extent of her story she carried on her [&hellip

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Saudade

Mallory Nezam — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:53:33 +0000

I stand at the edge where the water meets the shore, toes curled as the misty cold rolls in. My reflection in the water, your reflection in the water, a reflection bobbed back and forth. The sea has a way of coming and going and coming back again, leaving us with nothing. “Don’t ask me [&hellip

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Interview: Filmmaker Riley Hooper

Mallory Nezam — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:30:25 +0000

“Most people will tell their story if they have someone to listen,” said Riley Hooper, a young documentary filmmaker living in New York. Hooper happens to be a particularly good listener. At only 24, she snagged the Grand Jury Prize in the Shorts category at the DOC NYC festival in November for her film, “Flo”. [&hellip

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Dinner

Mallory Nezam — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:12 +0000

Dinner always begins with the effortless tap on my door, followed by the monotone, “c’mon, Juh-sell.” I peek my head out and see my perpetually pain-stricken host brother, Jeremy, trudge down a dark hallway toward what seems like his death bed. Instead, it is a reheated meal full of awkward silences and placated conversation. Jeremy, [&hellip

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When We Were Born Again

Mallory Nezam — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:09:25 +0000

For a while there was nothing, and then there was everything. Quick as lightning the wheat had come up, the soy and the corn stalks broke through the soil, and the chickens had begun to make noise. The days in February had run together, but today the grass thawed and there were sounds, there were [&hellip

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The Community-based Art of Carlie Trosclair

Mallory Nezam — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:16:57 +0000

So, what is an artist residency, really? Do artists just escape into the woods for weeks and compose their next brilliant masterpiece? What happens there that doesn’t happen in regular places? And how does the growing group of site-specific, community-minded artists negotiate the deep relationship with two drastically disparate places: their community and their resident [&hellip

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Predpriyatie

Mallory Nezam — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:17:34 +0000

The light filtered in in a dirty way. The windowsill was dusty and pale walls hugged light around the room as though it were steam. This was the kind of light you could see. Ivelina’s wrist and watering can were illuminated as she stood arrested, staring out onto the rooftop patio. For a moment, this [&hellip

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Art on Track and CMYKittens

Mallory Nezam — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:56:00 +0000

There is nothing quite like Art on Track. This art exhibition is the largest mobile art gallery in the world. It challenges artists to convert the interiors of Chicago EL train cars into works of art. Yes, convert. What you will not find at Art on Track is hanging canvases and mounted sculptures. What you will find [&hellip

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