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• Samia Halaby: drawing with the principles of nature

  I am watching Samia Halaby on YouTube. The video is posted by Tate. The artist is talking about her abstract paintings and says: I had taken a very strong step into abstraction by just questioning. The difference …

• The shimmering

  Several months ago, while reading Joan Didion’s essay Why I Write, I was surprised to read how certain images “shimmer around the edges” for her. She writes that she has these images in her mind—where the figure …