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“Going through the 9/11 museum/memorial was a visceral, emotional gut shot of an experience, because of how they laid out the timelines so you could follow all the different threads of events from start to finish, and see the massive scale of the damage, including all the recordings and phone calls and warped building foundations. I'm not American and I was a child when it happened, but as a first responder, I could also viscerally relate to the way information just does not get synthesized during a massive large scale emergency like that - so many different people see and inform others of things in so many different ways and shit gets lost, which is what happened in several instances on that day and sometimes you're running into something blind. We had to go and sit down afterwards and just process/debrief.”

“On my visit to SFMOMA, I became absorbed in the Cy Twombly paintings in the fourth-floor “Approaching American Abstraction” gallery. Twombly’s messy, seemingly frenzied paintings that recall hurried handwriting spoke to me in a different way post-shutdown. Surrounded by large Twombly works on four sides — three untitled works and his “Note 1” — the swirling, freehand chaos of the works reminded me of the chaos we had experienced so far this year. I took them in from every angle, noticing how the light hit the paint differently at each vantage point. The large scale of the works in person did something that seeing art digitally doesn’t easily accomplish: It made me feel small in relation and took me outside myself after months of a severely diminished world in my apartment.”

“Lingering at certain works, I found myself doing a kind of jazz box step when other people came near to give them viewing space, backing up so they could proceed to the front while also trying to keep 6 feet of distance from everyone around me. Then I’d step back up and do the dance all over again. I watched others stepping forward and then backing up in the same fashion, taking in the art while also remaining mindful of social distance. Any self-consciousness I had about this choreography vanished the more I saw other people repeating this dance. We’re in this new reality together.”