Volume 39 | Issue 2 | 2020-2021

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METROSPHERE

CAN’T LET YOU GO Emma Zimmerman Art Submission

“The death of my brother in 2019 left me with emptiness, both physically and mentally. My brother, Gus, was my vitality. Art became my means to survive and, in a way, to endure. When I paint Gus, I bring him into the present—documenting his existence and continuing his story. By cultivating the myth and legend that was Gus, in this way, he becomes immortal. My work is a celebration and inquiry of who my brother was to me, who we were to one another, and who I am without him.”

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