Immaculate Conception

by Ling Ling Huang

Or maybe I was just so insecure that anyone with a strong sense of identity could destabilize me.

It was impossible to exist without breathing in another artist’s paint fumes or wading through their oversized ego.

“Don’t hold originality up on some pedestal, Enka. Who does originality actually serve? Not the public. The public needs to be shocked and reminded of their own feelings, which everything else in the world seeks to numb. Whatever the purpose of art is, it isn’t to be original for originality’s sake.”