Jeannine Harkleroad Awarded 2nd Gift of Freedom
Jeannine Harkleroad, 2nd Gift of Freedom Recipient A carefully aligned series of events or objectives, each having their own obstacle, i.e my sculpture, have a force of their own. These objects are simply activated, their imperfections uncoil.—Jeannine Harkleroad, from her Gift of Freedom application. Jeannine Harkleroad, a sculptor from Richmond, Virginia
Jennifer Tseng Awarded 1st Gift of Freedom
Jennifer Tseng, 1st Gift of Freedom Recipient [T]o create a poem is to create a world. I do so in order to engineer a logic of my own making, an arena in which records are set straight, confusions clarified, lost things found, strange doors opened.—Jennifer Tseng, from her Gift of Freedom application Jennifer Tseng, a poet from Los Angeles, California, is the recipient of the 1st Gift of Freedom Award.
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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