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To accompany our spring 2025 issue (22.1), we have curated a folio on family secrets (reviews and craft essays), after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Here is Jennifer S. Cheng’s craft essay on writing about family secrets: A family is woven by the stories it tells, as well as …

Artist’s Statement and Interview My paintings are generally small, meticulous, and involve sustained observation of an otherwise ignored or quickly consumed image. Why/how did dumpsters and file cabinets specifically become focuses of your work (as those otherwise ignored objects)?In 2016/7, I noticed that file cabinets were accumulating in local thrift stores, and I spotted them …

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I was in a cheerful mood, so I went to the zoo at the edge of the city. I laughed at a comic book with the idyllic zebras. I slow-danced to Chopin with the lavish gorillas. I sang a Spanish ballad to the stylish flamingos. At the end of the visit, I took a much-needed …

I was at a hidden local beach in Southern California away from the tourist traps of Santa Monica and Huntington Beach. The sun was shining but it wasn’t overwhelming; it was still early in the morning. That’s when I saw a flying jaguar in the late spring sky. It approached the sand and landed a …

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