Tag: Brooklyn

A September of Multisensory Art 1: Finnegan Shannon at Pioneer Works, Frame by Frame!

Below are a series of frames from a video I took at the opening of “There’s no me without you,” Finnegan Shannon’s show at Pioneer Works on September 11, 2026. Ariana Martinez’s delightfully tactile artworks are traveling along Finnegan’s conveyer belt for us to interact with. We were among the first to arrive. I excitedly started picking objects up and… Read more

The 2024 Brooklyn Half Marathon- My First Half Marathon!

I began showing up at Achilles NYC—a running/walking/rolling group that pairs disabled athletes with volunteer guides—last summer after many years away. I was sporadic until I met a young woman named Gillian. On our second run, we flirted with the idea of doing the NYC Marathon. She’s doing Chicago like a month before, and said something along the lines of:… Read more

Footnote on ‘Invisible Child’ by Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott was recently announced as the Pulitzer winner in nonfiction for Invisible Child: poverty, survival, and hope in an American city (Random House, 2021). I was honored to have a conversation with her during the Virtual Monster Book Tour for There Plant Eyes. During that conversation and others over the past couple years, we’ve talked about visibility and invisibility.… Read more