Short Answer Sunday: Ali Kaeini

Meant to elicit quick, intuitive responses, Short Answer Sunday will introduce readers to a wide variety of artists, educators, writers, curators, art enthusiasts and art adjacent individuals whose inclinations I admire. With the intent of getting to know the person behind the artwork as well generating new avenues to artistic discovery, participants may respond with only a few words or an artist’s name, always with the opportunity to elaborate if they wish!

I was first introduced to Ali Kaeini's work at 1708 Gallery in Richmond almost exactly three years ago (my memory is not normally this precise, but for some reason this has stuck). I was struck by the whole show--a fantastic two-person exhibition called Earth Blossom with Ali’s work alongside equally awesome artist Eleanor Mahin Thorp.  

Ali makes stunning work that is closely aligned with painting and drawing, but also incorporates techniques associated with textiles. His paintings on raw canvas are sewn, dyed, and printed, in addition to including fabric collage, inks and various types of paint. Many of Ali’s paintings hang like unconventional tapestries. Amplifying their sculptural and architectural qualities, they hover off of the walls and jut into the gallery space. There are a good number of reasons why I’m drawn to Ali’s work, including but not limited to his collage methodology, his material intelligence, the imagery that refuses to settle and slips elusively between abstraction and representation and my inclination that destruction & production intertwine in his creative practice.

I highly recommend this video developed in conjunction with Ali’s recent solo show Missed Mist at Nika Project Space in Paris, in which he talks about many aspects of his practice and process.  Big thanks to Ali for his time and thought on this Short Answer Sunday—I know you guys will love it.  

For more about Ali Kaeini and his work, go to his website or follow him on Instagram.
xo, Lauren

Name: Ali Kaeini
Occupation: Artist and Educator
Astrological data: Taurus
Hometown: Tehran, IR
Current location: Brooklyn, NY

Other than Instagram, how do you find new-to-you artists?

Residencies, Studio visits, Open studios, Galleries

 

An artwork that makes you laugh?

 

The recent show by Paz Sher called Justice [laughter] Justice 

 

An artwork that makes you cry?

Marina Abramovic works and Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente, Perseverance, 1982, Oil on linen, 78 x 93 in.
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An artwork that you'd like to live inside for a week?

Chinese landscapes maybe from Song dynasty - mountains and rivers

An artist whose work you can't stop thinking about?

It changes regularly, but right now: Renate Druks, Duane Linklater and Kiki Smith

An artwork that feels like a warm hug?

Persian carpets and Anni Albers works

Anni Albers, Design for a Rug, 1927
Black ink and watercolour over graphite with drawn and cut paper additions on off-white wove paper
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Carpet, circa late 16th-early 17th century, silk, metal wrapped thread; tapestry weave
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Erotic artwork? (editor's note: this is a multiple choice question)

Yes: ✅

What's an artwork that doesn't look like art?

Delcy Morelos, her show at Dia -El abrazo last year was amazing

Fav museum or gallery in your current location?

Dia Foundation, Drawing center, MOMA PS1

Last exhibition you saw irl?

Wendy Red Star at Sargent’s Daughters

An artwork that you'd like to see before you die?

Nazca lines in Peru

What art material do you love to nerd out on?

Natural homemade dyes and Woodblock printmaking

What song, book, podcast or film do you think everyone should know about?

Wim Wenders movies (Ed. note: 1000% percent 🙌)

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Ali Kaeini, an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, earned his MFA from VCU in 2023. He has received the MacDowell Fellowship, VMFA Professional Award, and Hamiltonian Fellowship and attended the Skowhegan residency. His work has been exhibited across the U.S. Europe and the Middle East.

For more about Ali Kaeini and his work, check out his website and follow him on Instagram.

Short Answer Sunday: Kathleen Kennedy

Meant to elicit quick, intuitive responses, Short Answer Sunday will introduce readers to a wide variety of artists, educators, writers, curators, art enthusiasts and art adjacent individuals whose inclinations I admire. With the intent of getting to know the person behind the artwork as well generating new avenues to artistic discovery, participants may respond with only a few words or an artist’s name, always with the opportunity to elaborate if they wish!

Kathleen Kennedy is an artist, professor and genuinely delightful human who also happens to be one of my colleagues (yes, I’m really very lucky in the colleague department). An expert in jewelry and all things metal, Kathleen’s recent work resembles jewelry, but it is not jewelry. Rather, it expands on the language of jewelry through the modality of sculpture, both subverting and upholding expectations of the jewelers' craft.

Kathleen’s jewelry-inspired objects maintain a devotional attention to touch, labor and precision, while being unorthodox in scale (they are oversized), media (not real gold but Nu Gold, or gold leaf on foam and plaster armatures) and wearability (not wearable). There’s a sense of hope and restraint found in the visual metaphors—hearts (both buoyant and weighty), nets, tethers and clasps abound. Manifestation is one of Kathleen’s pieces that I can’t stop thinking about. Enticed by the subtle variations of the surface textures (I’m just a tad obsessed with neutral warm/cool juxtapositions), it's the question of weight that I return to again and again. The jumbo heart charm feels both hefty and deflated, vulnerable, but also playful, lassoed and suspended slightly askew like a lopsided anchor or a ball and chain.

Kathleen is as passionate and engaging (both as a teacher and a maker) as the generosity of her responses suggest and her Short Answer Sunday is a total banger. For more about Kathleen and her work, go to her website and follow her on Instagram.
xo, Lauren

Name: Kathleen Kennedy
Occupation: Artist & Professor
Astrological data: Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon, Virgo Rising (Cancer Mars, Gemini Venus, Leo Mercury...you know so much about me now).
Hometown: Richmond, VA
Current location: Richmond, VA - a true townie

Other than Instagram, how do you find new-to-you artists?

Pure Luck...word of mouth...conversations with friends...hyperallergic

An artwork that makes you laugh?

I don't know if I can say it always makes me laugh out loud...because sometimes humor can point out sadness...but I do love the work of Lynda Barry and all things from the near sighted monkey.

An artwork that makes you cry?

I 100% cried at the Nick Cave Guggenheim exhibition...partly because of the work and partly because I was seeing it in person....his work really gives me a "I want to see with my hands not my eyes" energy...but that is a major no-no at a museum.

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Most underrated artist?

all art jewelry needs more love

An artwork that you'd like to live inside for a week?

any juicy piece of jewelry made by Lola Brooks

An artist whose work you can't stop thinking about?

I often can't stop thinking about how perfect the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Perfect Lovers piece is...Whenever I've seen it in real life, the clocks have always been out of sync with one another...which feels like an accurate representation of life...out of step but still together, side by side.

I also can’t stop thinking about Cornelia Parker’s drawing series, specifically the wedding ring drawing…It’s so drool worthy…It uses drawing in both the 2D sense AND in the metalsmithing sense of drawing down wire. In this piece she has taken 2 wedding bands and melted them down in to an ingot, she then mills the ingot out…or rather draws the ingot out, until it is the length of the perimeter of a living room…This gold wire simultaneously symbolizes the love between two people...keeping them together...and the distance of that space between us that inevitably creeps in.

An artwork that feels like a warm hug?

The I love you box by Julianne Schwartz

What's your favorite characteristic in an artwork?

the cared for details that make you come close

Erotic artwork? (editor's note: this is a multiple choice question)

Yes: ✅

What's an artwork that doesn't look like art?

a Karin Sander polished plaster wall...look close or you'll miss it.

What's an artwork that you suspect that you shouldn't like, but you do (guilty pleasure)?

kei trucks

What's an artwork that you secretly hate?

It's not so much of a secret...but that Jeff Koons Pink Panther piece at the Moma...I have dreams about bumping in to it and knocking it over...but then it turns in to a nightmare because the topple off of the pedestal doesn't make it shatter in to 1 million pieces.

Most insane art piece?

Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth at the Tate...especially thinking of the Tate as a body, and that piece as a wound which left a permanent scar in the skin of the floor.

 

Fav monograph or art book?

Tone Vigeland : Schmuck / Jewelry, Objekt / Objects, Skulptur / Sculpture Monograph AND The Quilts of Gees Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place Monograph

Fav museum or gallery in your current location?

The Faberge Collection at the VMFA....the enamel and metalwork is drool worthy

Last exhibition you saw irl?

Testimony & Welter @ Reynolds Gallery...but will see Firewood (A love letter to the VCU wood program) at Alma's on Friday! AND (as this is being published) I will be making my way back from LA, where I will have seen the Monuments Exhibit at The Brick and MOCA (I’m also hoping to stop by Craft in America and the Center for Craft…fingers crossed I can hit it all)

 

Kathleen's photos from Testimony at Reynolds Gallery

 

Kathleen's photos from Testimony at Reynolds Gallery

 

Kathleen's photos of Jack Wax's work in welter at Reynolds Gallery

 

Kathleen's photos of Jack Wax's work in welter at Reynolds Gallery

An artwork that packs a spiritual punch?

the work of Lauren Fensterstock and the work of Lori Talcott

 

An artwork that you'd like to see before you die?

I know I totally have an answer for this, but my mind is blanking

What art material do you love to nerd out on?

All hail the METAL

 

What was the last thing that you listened to in the studio?

MMMBop...I'm sad to say this is the real answer...and I did love it. Was anyone else absolutely devastated when they found out Hanson was indeed the Hanson BROTHERS, and that Taylor Hanson was, in fact, NOT a girl…and that you, a teen girl, had been modeling your style after a BOY?!?!?!? #Mortified #pre-internet

What's a book that changed your life?

Friends of Interpretable Objects by Miguel Tamen

 

What song, book, podcast or film do you think everyone should know about?

ok...there are a couple of podcasts that I love...The Dead Authors Podcast; Oh, Hello: the P'dcast; and the Museum of Curiosity (a bbc radio show) For Music...all things Beyonce

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Kathleen Kennedy is an artist, sculptor, jeweler, and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a BFA in Craft/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. Kennedy is Assistant Professor of Art in Jewelry & Metalsmithing at Longwood University. Additional teaching includes Virginia Commonwealth University, the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, the Penland School of Craft, and Montgomery College. Kennedy is a recipient of the 2026–27 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship and the 2023 Center for Craft Teaching Artist Fellowship. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Community for Ethical Jewelry. From 2017 to 2025 she served as Director of Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM), an international jewelry mining and recycling project focused on education and collaboration. RJM lays bare the social and environmental destruction of mining, inspiring artists to shift their practices towards sustainable solutions, and asking communities to radically alter their habits of consumption. Kennedy teaches, lectures, and exhibits her work both domestically and abroad. 

For more about Kathleen Kennedy, go to her website and visit her on Instagram.

Short Answer Sunday: Esteban Garcia Bravo

Meant to elicit quick, intuitive responses, Short Answer Sunday will introduce readers to a wide variety of artists, educators, writers, curators, art enthusiasts and art adjacent individuals whose inclinations I admire. With the intent of getting to know the person behind the artwork as well generating new avenues to artistic discovery, participants may respond with only a few words or an artist’s name, always with the opportunity to elaborate if they wish!

Esteban Garcia Bravo is an ambitious artist whose work combines digital technologies and community-driven, events-based practices. His current work takes the form of monumental, illuminated structures that not only exist in the public sphere, but attempt to repurpose and reclaim public spaces. Collectivity is at the root of the content and form --these projects are inherently collaborative, from ideation to fabrication to exhibition. Acting as beacons in the dark, these site-specific sculptures invite interactions with visitors and encourage play and curiosity, but also promote the somewhat grander hope of generating civic engagement.

There’s an older piece of Esteban’s that comes to my mind often-- an artist-made video game that my husband and I curated into a 2013 exhibition at the gone (but not forgotten) DC artist-run exhibition space, Delicious Spectacle. Did I scour the depths of the Esteban’s Instagram to find an image of this piece? Indeed, I did. So now you only have to partially imagine this fully-functional, 90's-style video game encased in a DIY papier-mâché, corncob arcade cabinet. The game itself, if memory serves, allowed the player to direct a little corncob OC on a quest to learn about the health impacts of GMOs (fun and educational).

I got a lot out of Esteban’s Short Answer Sunday and I know you will, too. Find more about Esteban here and here. Thx for reading😀
xo, Lauren

Name: Esteban Garcia Bravo
Occupation: Artist and teacher
Astrological data: Taurus
Hometown: Bogotá, Colombia
Current location: San José, CA

Other than Instagram, how do you find new-to-you artists?

go to art openings, galleries and museums in my area

 

An artwork that makes you laugh?

hot glue sculptures by Aaron Nemec

Aaron Nemec, Peace Flag Cat, hotglue/enamel
3.75x3.25x1.5 inches
2026 
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An artwork that makes you cry?

Krzysztof Wodiczko - Monument

 

Most underrated artist?

Aldo Giorgini

 

An artwork that you'd like to live inside for a week?

Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies (infinity mirror series)

 

An artist whose work you can't stop thinking about?

Holy Mountain: Alejandro Jodorowsky

 

An artwork that feels like a warm hug?

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromointerefence or Physichromie series

What's your favorite characteristic in an artwork?

materiality

 

Erotic artwork? (editor's note: this is a multiple choice question)

Yes: ✅

What's an artwork that doesn't look like art?

a lot of contemporary art that I don't have the time/interest to read

What's an artwork that you suspect that you shouldn't like, but you do (guilty pleasure)?

Requiem for a Vampire, or other films by Jean Rolin

What's an artwork that you secretly hate?

Rafaël Rozendaal's Haiku series

Most insane art piece?

Frank Stella: K.81 (or any assemblage)

Frank Stella, K.81 combo (K.37 and K.43) large size, 2009
Protogen RPT with stainless steel tubing
15 x 16 x 10 ft.
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Fav monograph or art book?

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

Fav museum or gallery in your current location?

Empire 7 Studios, MACLA

Last exhibition you saw irl?

KAWS Family at SFMOMA

An artwork that packs a spiritual punch?

Leonora Carrington

An artwork that you'd like to see before you die?

Arcosanti by Paolo Soleri

What was the last thing that you listened to in the studio?

Discodélicos DJ sets on youtube

What's a book that changed your life?

El Libro de San Cipriano: Tesoro del hechicero, Book of Saint Cyprian & The teachings of Don Juan

What song, book, podcast or film do you think everyone should know about?

Terrence McKenna's lectures -or his books True Hallucinations & Archaic Revival

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Esteban Garcia Bravo is a Colombian-American artist and scholar whose work bridges computational art history, digital media, and public art technology, exploring how code and light shape collective experience. His practice evolved from research on the “lost histories” of early computer art into the creation of large-scale interactive installations such as GEODE, Aurora Almanac, and PRISMA, which integrate animation, data, and community participation into public space. Through commissions, residencies, and collaborations, he develops site-specific works that reimagine technology as a medium for placemaking, civic engagement, and shared wonder.

For more on Esteban, visit his website and follow him on Instagram.

Short Answer Sunday: Marissa Long

Meant to elicit quick, intuitive responses, Short Answer Sunday will introduce readers to a wide variety of artists, educators, writers, curators, art enthusiasts and art adjacent individuals whose inclinations I admire. With the intent of getting to know the person behind the artwork as well generating new avenues to artistic discovery, participants may respond with only a few words or an artist’s name, always with the opportunity to elaborate if they wish!

Everything that I’ve ever seen Marissa Long make is awesome. Go to her website and you will see with your own eyes that I’m not exaggerating, not even a little bit. Marissa works with photography, sculpture, drawing, video and installation, all while maintaining a consistently high level of visual and conceptual rigor. In fact, I struggle to think of many other artists who shift across visual art forms so skillfully (it bears emphasis that she makes this look easy, when it is, in fact, not easy). Marissa’s recent sculptural work pairs elaborate, artist-made cast resin objects with photographs, some of which are found or altered. The cast objects often become framing devices which take on a range of unconventional forms--sometimes chunky rococo sarcophagi, other times droopy intestinal flowers—and house mysterious and tender images that evoke impermanence, distance, grief, and longing.

Marissa has a discerning eye for compositional drama. She composes materials and images to achieve contrasts in scale, value, color and texture that metamorphize into other types of oppositions, seduction/repulsion, hiding/revealing, abundance/scarcity, decomposition/rebirth (if you watch the David Altmejd video that Marissa shared below, you will hear his thoughts on how tension generates energy). Both eerie and exceedingly beautiful, her work is precise, but not at all simple, striking just the right balance between information given and information withheld.

Marissa brings the same discerning eye to her curation at Art Enables, a DC non-profit that supports artists with disabilities. I regularly look through the Art Enables’ website (and Instagram) and I’m constantly blown away by the resident artists’ work as well as the stellar line-up of visiting artists who exhibit there. The current show with the excellent title Shrimps on the Mountain has repeatedly captivated me!

As you soon will learn from her Short Answer Sunday, Marissa rocks. The generosity of her responses is unparalleled and I am so inspired by all of the artists she mentions, as well as her commentary!
xo, Lauren

Name: Marissa Long
Occupation: Gallery Director & Curator at Art Enables
Astrological data: Virgo (Capricorn moon + Scorpio rising, whatever that means!)
Hometown: Reading, PA
Current location: Arlington, VA

Other than Instagram, how do you find new-to-you artists?

Through galleries and museums, reading, and friends, mostly. 

 

An artwork that makes you laugh?

Maurice Barnes (of Art Enables), Visit to the Clown Cemetery. The cemetery is just outside some circus tents. The clowns are crying but the non-clown people are laughing because – clowns?! So many of the details in Maurice’s works make me laugh.  

 

Maurice Barnes, Visit to the Clown Cemetery, 2025,
colored pencil and ink on paper, 12 x 9 in
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An artwork that makes you cry?

Film and music tend to make me cry the most. Recently in film: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. So brilliantly, delicately layered, plus the power of art to connect people when difficult emotions interfere. Charlotte Wells' Aftersun also really got me. 

In music: I saw several artists with disabilities perform at a symposium last year through Studio Route 29’s Beauty Music program and embarrassingly could not stop crying throughout – it was so cool, and joyful, and affirming.

I’ve cried several times seeing Aldous Harding play. I love her in general but something about the beauty and mystery of her music paired with her gestures and often weird, intense facial expressions is so moving to me and I find it hard to describe why. I love this feeling – when I can’t fully analyze or unpack why I’m deeply moved by something.

Wait, one more! A book: Percival Everett’s Telephone. The ending of several others of his books had made me teary before I read this one, and as I was approaching the last page, I was thinking to myself that I didn’t see how that could happen again with the amount of text left – a couple paragraphs. Wrong! Totally undone by the last sentence. Does this answer make me seem like I’m crying all the time?? lol

Most underrated artist?

Cheating a little here, but I’m going to say all the artists of Art Enables. Progressive studios like Art Enables exist because artists with disabilities don’t get the same opportunities and recognition as many other artists, when in fact they’re doing some of the most interesting things you will find in the art world. Their work constantly surprises and thrills me, and there’s such a wide range of styles and ways of seeing happening here. I really implore everyone to visit, check out, follow Art Enables, but I feel extra strongly about other artists doing so. I’m biased in multiple directions here, but I do find it hard to imagine that other artists won’t find at least one artist at Art Enables who really speaks to them.

An artwork that you'd like to live inside for a week?

Wow, hard to answer. Without overthinking it, I’d be happy to be in Rae Klein’s Blue Sphinx for a week. I feel like she’s bounding and floating through magical landscapes, just inhabiting her power. No stress, chill confidence, peeking into other dimensions, drinking raindrops from flowers.

An artist whose work you can't stop thinking about?

Nickola Pottinger. Her use of materials in her sculptures is very compelling. I’d like to use materials in this more painterly, organic way. Her sculptures are like talismans or totems – they feel spiritual but so deeply physical at the same time. And Stella Waitzkin. Similar theme here, re: materials. Her resin works are so much more painterly and raw than the way I work. I’d like to push myself to work more like this.

What's your favorite characteristic in an artwork?

I love the combination of beautiful and unsettling or even grotesque elements, and I also really swoon over subtlety. When something sits at JUST the right level of scrutability that you might almost miss but it quietly, dramatically alters the meaning of the piece – I am slayed. Also: materiality forever. That was three things.

Erotic artwork? (editor's note: this is a multiple choice question)

Other: ✅ Sure! Depends what it is, I guess.

What's an artwork that doesn't look like art?

Photos of people’s derpy Easter lamb cakes online. Love. Current interest.

What's an artwork that you suspect that you shouldn't like, but you do (guilty pleasure)?

I think I mostly just like what I like these days, although often I’m parsing out what I’m responding to in a work vs. what I recognize as complicated, or feel is unsuccessful, or lazy, or even offensive. I tend to really enjoy that analysis, even if a piece is, like, 90% terrible or infuriating!

What's an artwork that you secretly hate?

I once worked with someone who owned one of Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pig skins. This was from his controversial “art farm” project where he tattooed live pigs. They were supposedly sedated during the process and treated very humanely, etc., although I believe he moved the project to China because animal welfare laws were more lax there. The pigs were shown live in galleries and not skinned until they died of natural causes, I think. If they were saved from slaughter because of this project, great. But overall, I’m just not into it, regardless of any cultural commentary. I want all factory-farmed animals to be set free in sanctuaries without Wim Delvoye drugging and tattooing them first.

Most insane art piece?

I don’t know if this is the MOST insane piece, but the complexity of David Altmejd installations like “The Heart is a Werewolf” are wild to me.

Fav monograph or art book?

This is so hard to answer but in recent years, I’ve really loved Sara Cwynar’s Glass Life. And Pia Paulina-Guilmoth’s Flowers Drink the River. I can’t believe some of these images by Guilmoth exist.

PPG notable: the glittering spiderweb photo on this page and the horse and burning house here

Pia Paulina Guilmoth, we make a flower, 2022
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Last exhibition you saw irl?

All of the incredible booths at the Outsider Art Fair

An artwork that packs a spiritual punch?

Allison Schulnik’s Eager (love all of her work so much)

An artwork that you'd like to see before you die?

Stretching the parameters of this question, but I’d like to see as many cathedrals around the world as I can. I’m not religious, but I am very drawn to their kind of sacred imagery and vast, dramatic, spaces. Visiting cathedrals is one of my favorite things to do in life. They’re like deeply experiential museums. Discovering what’s in all of the different spaces and the history of the structure and everything in it is incredible to me. The ultimate is during the day when there’s an organ player practicing in intense stop-and-start spurts. It makes me so happy.

What art material do you love to nerd out on?

Resin and other mold-making and casting materials. I’ve done a lot of casting in the last 8 years or so and these materials are so complex. So many different types, different ways to exploit them, so many tricky things to figure out in terms of what materials can be combined. When I get to talk to a fellow mold-maker/caster, I feel the most excitement I’ve experienced discussing any medium.

What was the last thing that you listened to in the studio?

Sheila Heti's Pure Color

What song, book, podcast or film do you think everyone should know about?

I have to admit that questions like these really stall me. I consume a lot of all of these things and I love talking about them, but picking just one or even a few feels impossible! So, these probably aren’t my platonic ideal answers, but I’m going to mention Percival Everett again (an author, not a book) because I’m always stumping for him. My faves are Telephone, as mentioned, So Much Blue, Erasure, The Trees and his more recent James was also great. Some of these books can be intense and deal with trauma but are also profound and extremely funny (some others are primarily just funny and absurd, too), and he’s always doing interesting structural things. There are three different versions of “Telephone” out in the world with no indication other than tiny differences in the cover art! So you might read a slightly different version of the book than I did. He’s the coolest. 

 

Joshua Oppenheimer’s 2013 doc The Act of Killing and its 2014 companion film The Look of Silence also stand out to me as important works that people should know. I couldn’t stop thinking or talking about these for months after I saw them and clearly I still can’t. These are also very intense – they concern the mass killings in Indonesia in the 60’s. “Death squads” killed over a million alleged communists, but a lot of this was just racial profiling. The first film follows some of the men who led the squads. At the time of filming, these people were still in power, their actions had not been publicly condemned. The director asks them to participate in musical re-enactments of some of the killings they perpetrated. At first, they’re very eager to do this – they’re proud and boastful, they feel like movie stars glorifying what they think of as their achievements. But they’re re-enacting scenes as both themselves and as their victims, having to reckon with their actions from a different perspective for the first time. The Look of Silence is a more quiet but equally profound extension of this story. After these films came out, they actually changed the culture of the country and the way the genocide is acknowledged. I just wanted to end my Short Answer Sunday on a really fun note.

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Marissa Long is the Gallery Director & Curator at Art Enables - an organization that supports the creative and professional growth of artists with disabilities and spotlights their valuable contributions to the arts - where she has curated over 60 exhibitions including Art Enables artists and visiting artists from around the country. Recent external collaborations include “ALIAS” at the Corcoran School of Art at GW, and “Forward” in collaboration with Amtrak at Union Station. As an artist, Long works across mediums including sculpture, photography, drawing, and installation, exploring themes of loss, transformation, connection, and perception. Notable solo and 2-person exhibitions include "Blister Pearl" at MoCA Arlington (2023), “Instruction Manual” at NoVA’s AFA Gallery (2020), Borrowed From Dust" (MoCA Arlington, 2019) and "Luminiferous Aether" at Transformer [2017]. Long holds an BFA from The Corcoran School of Art and Design (2006). She lives and works in the DMV Metro area. 

Get to know more about Marissa and her work on Instagram and on her website.