Abstraction as Academia

Mar 24, 2025

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Mural by Jackson Pollock. (Every photo from the middle of the pandemic looks insane to me now.)

Stepping one spring day into the main gallery of the Salvador Dalí museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, the sensation of being threatened rose from my gut and made its way to my rational mind. It scared me to see creativity that flowed beyond what I thought was…

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