Read “Nuôi” in @hookdmag Issue 10, Melodrama
Photos from my visit to San Diego last November, and a love letter to my Aunt, who taught me what it means to feed one another. This piece documents the last bag and articles of clothing she ever wore in the spaces that contextualized my memory of her.
“The road wasn’t that long and I knew I’d be getting off soon. But at that moment, I felt such warmth.” - Fallen Angels
Boston pt 4: Scenes from the green line
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I gotta get Boston creampied fr
“Night scenes. The temperature is 28°F, -2°C. Humidity is 51%, atmospheric pressure is 0.992 atm. You were once here many decades ago, and by some mere coincidence these 40 or so years later, perhaps even our footsteps placed themselves on the same morsel of earth, and by chance maybe our bodies occupied the same cavity of space, separated by a great chasm of time. But that’s the thing: “To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing,” and what separates me and you is memory. When I remember you, you are as silent as a photograph.”
BOSTON PT 3: Scenes of the city
“On the page it looked nothing. The beginning almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. And then suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note, hanging there, unwavering. Until a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight.” - Amadeus
BOSTON PT 2. The Boston Symphony
BOSTON PT 1: Visit to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. “…” labeled for pieces I forgot to take note of
1. MFA Rotunda; top left: …; middle right: sketch by Lucien Lelong; bottom left: …
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4. & 5. Classical/Hellenistic period Greek earring of Nike driving a two horse chariot
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7. Statues of Ancient Greece exhibit
8. Cute lil frog on top of a frog!!! Han Dynasty drum with concentric frogs in relief
9. Hand x rays, Jo Sandman
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11. Snake belt and necklace by Elsa Peretti
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16. Egypt, Old kingdom Dynasty: Letter to the Dead
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18. Egypt, Reign of Kufu, Bead Net Dress found in a tomb in Giza
19. Funerary portrait of a man, Roman Imperial Period 170CE
20. Drinking cup (kylix) with Nessos abducting Herakle’s wife, Deianeira
Cali trip pt 2.
8/19/2024: “Like the other times, whenever we come back to visit Aunt Chau’s home in these steep meandering hills, it is a feast. Like a festival. Because time is a great chasm between our souls, and food is a celebration of our shared existence in this world. Because to love is to eat and to nourish.”
