Ginger #21: Summer 2020

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Issue 21

Summer 2020

Mission

SOPHIE KNIGHT COLLEEN DURKIN HANNAH MODE

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CLARE BOERSCH

Ginger maps networks of creative people. In keeping with the logic of a network, all of the contributors to this issue were referred by an editor or contributor from a previous issue. As a feminist publication, we are committed to supporting the work of womxn, non-binary, and gender nonconforming individuals.

Our goal is to produce a zine with a diverse range of forms, content, and perspectives.

HANNAH NELSONTEUSCH

COREENA LEWIS LAUREN ARIAN

SOPHIE OAKLEY

STEPHANIE VON BEHR

ABIGAIL HENNING

KAYA YUSI NEELA KLER

LANI RUBIN

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MOLLY ADAMS ALEX CHOWANIEC

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CAROLINE LARSEN

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PARADISE KHANMALEK

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JULIANA HALPERT

MARTHA WILSON

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DREA COFIELD + GABY COLLINSFERNANDEZ

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LEAH JAMES

BRE WISHART

GABRIELLA PICONE

ALANNAH FARRELL

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EMILY LUDWIG SHAFFER

NINO SARABUTRA

JENNY BLUMENFELD

AVIVA ROWLEY

SALTY XI JIE NG JESSI LI S.E.A.

MISIAN TAYLOR

ANDREA GUSSIE

CARMEL BROWN

DEVON GRIMES

JUNE T. SANDERS ELIZABETH TANNIE LEWIN

MS. NIKO DARLING

CAITLIN ROSE SWEET

SARAH MIHARA CREAGEN

JEAN SEESTADT

HEATHER LYNN JOHNSON

EMILY WUNDERLICH

ALISON VIANA

PAOLA DI TOLLA

JEN COHEN

KATY McCARTHY

JILLIAN JACOBS

KAVERI RAINA

FELICIA URSO

LAURA PORTWOODSTACER

JORDAN REZNICK

CRAIG CALDERWOOD

NICKI GREEN

ERI KING

JULIE ZHU

CONNAR WESTON

LAURA BERNSTEIN

LEJLA KALAMUJIĆ + JENNIFER ZOBLE

ANNA GURTONWACHTER

CARLY FREDERICK

SHALA MILLER STAVER KLITGAARD

ASHNA ALI

ERIC DYER

C. CHAPIN

CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU

CHARMAINE BEE

AMIA YOKOYAMA

ANNIK HOSMANN

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GRACIE BIALECKI

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EIRINI PAPAEFTHEMIOU

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NP SANCHEZ

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LIANA IMAM

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CARLA AVRUCH CLAUDIA GERBRACHT

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MARIE HINSON

BRIE ROCHELILLIOTT

ALEX VALLS KASIA HALL KATIE MIDGLEY JESSE HEIDER

JENNIFER WEISS LEIGH SUGAR JOEY BEHRENS KAITLIN McCARTHY

LAUREN BANKA

KATHERINE PATIÑO MIRANDA

ANNE MAILEY

LEANNE BOWES

ISA RADOJČIC

KERRI GAUDELLI HAYLEE EBERSOLE

MEREDITH SELLERS

KATIE FORD

DEVIN DOUGHERTY NATASHA WEST

JAN TRUMBAUER HEIDI BENDER

AMANDA LÓPEZKURTZ

COURTNEY KESSEL + DANIELLE WYCKOFF

MADELINE DONAHUE HALA ABDULKARIM JANE SERENSKA

GIMO JENNIFER FANDEL

ASTRID KAEMMERLING + BECCA J.R. LACHMAN

AMBER HOY

CARRIE GREEN

MOLLY SCHOENHOFF

JESSICA LAW TALI HALPERN

ELESE DANIEL

MICHAELA RIFE

KIRUN KAPUR

BRITLYNN HANSENGIROD

ALEXIS CANTU

WOLFGANG SCHAFFER ERICA McKEEHEN

ABBY FRIEND

ELAINE HEALY

LORI LARUSSO

DELILAH JONES LETITIA QUESENBERRY

MEGAN BICKEL

NATALIE EICHENGREEN

JACQUELINE MELECIO

MIMI CHIAHEMEN

JORDAN LANHAM

JULIANA LUJAN

MEGAN SICKLES

NATASHA MIJARES

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ITZEL BASUALDO

ALEX PATRICK DYCK

DEVYN MAÑIBO

MARIA R. BAAB

AGROFEMME

MARIE SÉGOLÈNE

BONNIE LANE

KATHERINE TARPINIAN

DOROTEA MENDOZA

MAKEDA FLOOD

MOLLY HAGAN

OLIVIA JANE HUFFMAN

BIA MONTEIRO JESSICA KIRKHAM

TONI KOCHENSPARGER

CAMERON RINGNESS ISSACHAR CURBEON

VANJA BUČAN

KATRINA SORRENTINO

SAM CROW

MINNY LEE

GROANA MELENDEZ

VERÓNICA PUCHE

ALESSANDRA CALÒ

ARIEL JACKSON

BRIE LIMINARA

ANA GIRALDOWINGLER YI-HSIN TZENG

MARTHA NARANJO SANDOVAL

EEL COSTELLO

KAT SHANNON

LUCA MOLNAR

NANDI LOAF

TRACI CHAMBERLAIN

COURTNEY STONE

IVY HALDEMAN

SOFIE RAMOS

JESSICA PRUSA

SONYA DERMAN

KAITLIN McDONOUGH

HARRIS BAUER

EMMALINE PAYETTE

HANNAH RAWE

MARIA STABIO

NATALIE GIRSBERGER JESS WILLLA WHEATON

VANESSA GULLY SANTIAGO

LEXI CAMPBELL

BIRAAJ DODIYA

MARISSA BLUESTONE

KATIE VIDA KATHARINE PERKO

RACHEL WALLACH KELSEY KEATON

RACHEL ZARETSKY

PAULAPART REBECCA BALDWIN

ENA SELIMOVIĆ

LEIGH RUPLE LA JOHNSON JESSICA WOHL

SARA LAUTMAN

MAYON HANANIA

MOLLY RAPP

EMILY ROSE LARSON

ELIZABETH SULTZER

IRENE CAVROS

INDIA TREAT

TYLER MORGAN

TIFFANY SMITH

LEYLA TULUN

MARIA NIKOLIS

RACHEL KANN

BECKY BRISTER LINDA STONEROCK

PRIYANKA RAM

HERMIONE SPRIGGS

LAURA COOPER

ERIN MIZRAHI

ASHLEIGH DYE B. NEIMETH

SOFIA PONTÉN

DEENAH VOLLMER

NATALIE BAXTER

JOLENE LUPO

KATE WHEELER

FREDRIKA THELANDERSSON

ULRIKE BUCK

ANNELIE McKENZIE

KRISTINA HEADRICK

LAURA McMULLEN

HANNAH MCMASTER

RACHEL BRODY KATHLEEN GRECO

DEBORAH DAVIS

CATHERINE AZIMI

ALYCE HALIDAY MCQUEEN

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Issue 21 contributors Paradise Khanmalek .................

Connar Weston .........................

Heather Lynn Johnson .............

Alessandra Calò ........................

Elese Daniel ...............................

GIMO .........................................

Katherine PatiĂąo Miranda ........

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A note from the editors

On the cover: I Hate The Way You Love Me 2, 2018, by Heather Lynn Johnson

Ginger's mission is to create a diverse, intersectional publication and to support the artists we feature. In light of the murder of George Floyd, which has sparked over 40 days (at the time of publication) of ongoing protests demanding justice for racial inequality in the United States, this is more important than ever. Though this issue of Ginger may have fewer pages than normal, we are so in awe of our contributors were able to make space for our publication during a time of such active protest.

A zine built through recommendation can lead to homogenous demographic representation. While we have always encouraged our contributors nominate womxn of color, queer womxn, and trans, NB and GNC people, we are now more actively seeking out these contributors to make Ginger an equitable, rather than equal, playing field. We're also working on ways in which we can provide support to the Ginger community at large and create pathways to directly support our Black contributors. Networked Feminism is Intersectional Feminism!

JACQUELINE + MARKEE

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Paradise Khanmalek

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PARADISE KHANMALEK

eggy curd cream clouds brush against my fuzzy face. Springy taps crunch sound into the thick orange air. Oily violin sounds spiral into my open ears. A human smile creeps shy and slow on my face. Cool blue bursting bubbles breathe flowery gasps in my rib cage.

Pluck a perfect finger across a trembling chord. Stems smell green and pungent.

Aroma mutters breathy existence into my nose. Clicking piano streams sing melody deep into my woody ears. Sharp stinging song. Long humming bird feather creak.

Clotted sounds ink drop wine splatters into a lovely chorus. Popping flower beaks sprinkle pollen all around, coating our feet. Saffron clouds dust light delicious feelings into our minds.

A chirping sun nips at my bristling neck.

Hot pink rays tickle my skin. Every orange breath hits my hollow wind chime lungs like a drum. Life beads drop down my earthly string one at a time, clinking with every kinetic kiss.

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PARADISE KHANMALEK

People exist, tipping lava glasses into the fumbling green ocean. Salt steam crackles up, tearing the air. Blinking wet eyes feel the salty sting on the coast.

Tempting pomegranate savory stew cools into a thick paste we eat with rice and barbeque chicken. Oily fingers drip drops onto thick paper plates. A big round sun clutters behind the rubber tree. Chatting cousins giggle and roar, proud confused playful darting anxious eyes. Human buzzing. Feet clapping dust tremors.

Happy beards hug munching mouths.

Black bean puddles pool around potato salad mounds. Hot pita licks finger tips.

Paradise Khanmalek is a visual artist, writer, and graphic designer exploring science fiction, color theory, the fabric of reality, and the sensual richness of our world through digital and mixed mediums. Their general interests include science, cultural analyses, delicious food, and nature.

They are Iranian American and from Los Angeles, California, where they currently live and reside.

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Connar Weston

Farm Subsidies are Still Welfare, 2019, oil on canvas, 54" x 44"

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CONNAR WESTON

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CONNAR WESTON

Orwell, 2020, oil, charcoal, graphite, cold wax, modeling paste, and plaster on canvas, 60" x 72"

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CONNAR WESTON

Gorgons: Girls Come in Threes, 2019, oil on canvas, 72" x 60"

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CONNAR WESTON

An ‘87 Ford Cortina, 2018, oil on canvas, 56" x 60"

Weston is a painter from Bridport, Vermont who received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020. She currently resides in New England and creates work which focuses on the re-contextualization of traditional Americana.

Weston exhibited in 2015 at the Feick Arts Center in Poultney, Vermont as well as Providence, Rhode Island at both the Memorial Hall Gallery and the Gelman Gallery from 2017-2020. connarweston.com @connarweston

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Heather Lynn Johnson Selected works from I Owe You Nothing: How to be Black and Free

I’m calling my soul back Back from between your legs Back from under your feet.

I Hate The Way You Love Me 3, 2018, photo collage

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HEATHER JOHNSON

HOT COMB [A metal comb that is heated by placing it directly on a source of heat, or can be electronically heated, and used to straighten coarse or curly hair from the roots.]

Sundays spent on kitchen floors Hot combs and baby hairs that sizzle “Sit still,” grandma would say Or you gonna get burned My perceptions skewed By history books And grandma Stoves that ping When the fire gets hot The smell of hair fire hot Stick-straight until the first bath Let me get this kitchen Grandma would mutter Head bent forward Breath held Waiting for the heat From that comb with teeth so tiny Female friendly fire Grandma and her hot comb She would run the hot comb over my edges That first touch of heat against the back of my neck Hisss, tsssss the sound of knots in my kitchen being smoothed down

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This was a generational thing Every female in my family Got use to the idea of pain early That pain is part of being black Grandma would say.

That pain is part of being a woman Grandma would say.

Sometimes the heat got too hot But, we was born of fire Ashes to ashes Became my brother Ashes to ashes Became my sister We mulched your toxins We laid down in your fields And grew into flowers While you sprinkled your seed on Virginal ground that didn't belong to you If the world does nothing, did we ever exist?

Sundays spent on kitchen floors Breathing in fire and exhaling flowers I mulched and ate my own toxins I sweated out the reasons for why not Which made knots in my kitchen Knots that even grandma's hot comb couldn’t straighten out.

HEATHER JOHNSON

Golden Child, After Basquiat series, 2019, oil on canvas

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HEATHER JOHNSON

HOW TO BE BLACK AND FREE (In honor of Amiri Baraka)

Fear is the negros only adversary Fear robs niggas at knife point In broad daylight Fear keeps the whites on their side of the street And the people of color on another.

It’s the “Look, a negro! Mama, see the negro! I’m frightened!”

Fanon type of fear That shoots my brother in the back Or handcuffs my baby girl Or murders my lover Then calls her a man in a skirt Fear makes me better than you Fear makes you think you’re better than me Fear makes me black and you light-skinned Fear makes institutions police my hairstyle Fear makes money for those who are afraid to end up like me

Fear keeps me out of your bathrooms Fear keeps me in closets Fear keeps me out of castles and moves me to Canada Fear keeps me locked in prisons for selling weed Even now when it’s legal Fear kills my leaders and visionaries while yours get monuments Fear of a black planet Fear of the browning of America Fear enslaves Fear subjugates Fear empowers weak minds to do weak things Fear is what grounds me Fear makes me an American amongst other Americans The America that is home to the free I’m afraid. I’m afraid I’m afraid I’m afraid Put that on repeat and Add Drake to the hook

Fear makes me gender non-conforming Fear gentrifies our ghettos Fear gives me ¢.65 to your dollar Fear is my light and your salvation Fear makes:

Fear of dying.

Fear to be alive.

Fear to speak Fear to trust Fear fear fear fear

The coronavirus, AIDS, Ebola, bird flu, flesh eating bacteria, Mexicans, the Chinese, bat soup, Muslims, atom bombs, North Korea, acid rain, holes in our ozone layer, climate change, terrorism and carbs.

I’m afraid that I’ll never be heard But most of all I’m afraid of the reasoning mind

Whom shall I fear today FOX News, ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS? Huh. Whom shall I fear today?

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Sometimes I whisper “I’m afraid,” to no one in particular Or in a crowded room

HEATHER JOHNSON

I’m afraid of good ole boys I’m afraid of white people with fire arms I’m afraid of the cops I’m afraid of the kkk I’m afraid of the Trumps and the Bushes I’m afraid of that guy standing on the corner I’m afraid of that sexy woman with box braids I’m afraid that she won’t love me I’m afraid that I’m not enough I’m afraid of falling in love I'm afraid of never finding love I'm afraid of losing my job, my disability benefits, health insurance I’m afraid of being alone I’m afraid of the silence that comes at 2am.

And silence is afraid of me.

To be Black and free is to Start with knowing That this is not your father’s house This is not your father’s home In his home all bodies belong to him And I give my black body freely But you can’t have My wings That grow on trees And flutter against The sky to catch my fall Young black and freeFalling Hurt is hurt is hurt is hurt But up here we are free Up here we are free Up here we are free.

I Hate The Way You Love Me, 2018, photo collage

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HEATHER JOHNSON

NEVER KNOW

Wear the mask that all black people carry The expression that says Neither here, nor there Yes and no.

If I cared, y’all would never know.

Virgin Mary, 2019, collage on paper

Heather Lynn Johnson is a poet, artist and a performer living in Brooklyn. She is currently a fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, author of The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth (Inpatient Press, 2017), and the 2017 literary fellow for the Queer|Art|Mentorship program. Johnson's work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Her formal approach to the narrative, whether visual or poetic, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. She is working on her next book of poetry I Owe You Nothing: How to be Black and Free. Johnson received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. @heatherjmet

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Alessandra Calò Kochan

K

ochan is a reflection on gender identity.

The work highlights the act of understanding of one’s own body and desires, something that remains essential for every woman considering that, in today’s world, the female identity is still defined by a socially subordinate position, disconnected from a woman’s needs, and constrained by moral obligations and social conventions.

Through the self-portraits, the artist does not shift her gaze outward, but focuses on the role of her own body, comparing it to a territory to explore.

Through that exploration we see that the search for one’s self is a journey through (sometimes) unfamiliar territory, without precise coordinates, that seeks and finds space, asserting the possibility of a different and more conscious way to exist in the world.

The works use double photographic exposures on ancient archival maps recovered from the New York Public Library. They trace a possible connection among the transformations related to emancipation—political and sexual—characteristic of two “territories” so differents, yet so similar.

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ALESSANDRA CALÃ’

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ALESSANDRA CALÒ

Alessandra Calò works and lives in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Artist and photographer, she has been experimenting from the beginning of her career the use of new languages that allow her to deepen her grasp of themes related to memory, identity, and to the language of the photography itself. The dominant theme in her work is “recollection”: a state of mind combined with reality and not simply a nostalgic evoking of the past. She is passionate about old print photographic processes (silver salts, Van Dyke Brown, Cyanotype). She has participated in internationals residency, exhibitions and festivals such as Circulation(s) festival de la jeune photographie européenne (Paris), Les Rencontres (Arles), Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia), Open House (Rome). She has realized several self published photobooks and some of her artworks have been published in specialized magazines and acquired in private collections, foundations and museums. alessandracalo.it Facebook: thesecretgardenproject Instagram: alessandra__calo

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Elese Daniel Four Poems

s w e l l

after the Kavanaugh Supreme Court Hearings

staring at the five tomatoes i’ve harvested from outside my apartment / in tahirah’s old plastic pot / windblown from the second floor fire escape / thinking about all the water chris and i filled / from the tub faucet and poured into the dirt / for the fruit in my palm

at some point in the summer / i abandoned the garden / let stalks fall over with their weight dragging against the patio cement / leaves brushed by bodies / and bags of trash collected from the upstairs neighbors i sometimes thanked the sky for remembering the effort / chris too / but today / i am fisting five tomatoes with a headful of men / shouting and throwing their hands about / until they collide into desks or a past / they’ve since erased / or around a voice / a truth / a woman / and questioning / whether or not to squeeze

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ELESE DANIEL

i made a pie

and ate it from the center on Mark’s birthday the three of us with forks bodies splayed across his living room floor half-interested in Independence Day which we watched through the large front window of the house — tv/vhs combo turned toward us from the porch.

Chris lived in Chicago still and i kept driving up with some baked good (or some thing for somebody) who made me feel whole, if only for a weekend. the last time i saw those floorboards and that porch Kelly offered me cut sunflowers and had already broken Mark’s heart (or he hers). i let the sunflowers live in the windshield of my truck for a year until someone stomped through it.

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ELESE DANIEL

( i still live here ) i keep writing the same line in different ways essentially asking

how much more will we age

anyway

… hiatus ...

* lays beneath an unmarked pile of rocks in an overgrown alleyway *

says, “ I am ---

trying

too hard

to remain

soft. ”

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ELESE DANIEL

(i stay up late watching a docuseries about cults)

Elese Daniel has a chaotic habit of writing and performing poetry. She seeks presence and progress. Not often published conventionally, her work has ghosted as lyrical text for choral and music compositions and scaled the walls, windows, and floors of galleries. She has upcoming exhibitions at the Weston Art Gallery this Summer/Fall 2020 and poems in Dinner Bell Magazine. Elese lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and rides a bicycle in the street. @_____trying

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GIMO

Everything You Give Is Life

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Interplanetary Vacancy

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GIMO

Sorry For Cryin'

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GIMO

Intertwined

GIMO is a non-binary/queer Mexican-American fine artist from Chicago, IL. Now currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Their work explores all forms of identity, gender constructs, the subconscious, metaphysical understanding of time and space, surrealism, and psychological epiphanies through detailed self-portraits. They have shown their work in renowned DIY spaces, salons, and cafĂŠ establishments in Chicago, Peoria, Kansas City MO., and Los Angeles. They attended and studied fine arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Illinois State University.

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Katherine PatiĂąo Miranda Practice 62. (The Expanded Field)

Where does a painting start or end?

Cooking black beans Eating them Making ink with them Painting with them Sprouting them I become one with my painting Time is my canvas Creating layers of color in the form of Leaves, flowers, cells and beans

Black beans, flower pot, frame, water, sun rays, air, time; Video, Digital C-Print, artist's frame; Diverse sizes; 2020

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KATHERINE PATIÑO MIRANDA

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KATHERINE PATIÑO MIRANDA

Katherine Patiño Miranda’s art honors living forms. Her works, which she calls practices, are time meditations always in the process of becoming dealing with cycles of life and decay and the interdependent relationship between the human and non-human. Born in Cali, Colombia and based in Brooklyn, her works, merit awards and residencies include HnC MANIFESTA11 in Zürich ,Kate Oh Gallery in NY, III Biennale DESDE AQUÍ in Colombia and El Centro Rural de Arte, Argentina to name a few. She holds a BA from Hunter College and an MA from Zürich University of the Arts. katherinepatinomiranda.com @katherine_patino_miranda

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