“Like I feel all I’m doing is working with a bad memory. I have an idea. Usually it feels very urgent. I want to bring my neighborhood back. I want to show my mother her city. But something happens when I make the work. It erases the intention.” She looks expectantly at Naj. “Right,” she says. “I get lost in the details. Then I realize I cannot remember very well. Or I am working with other people’s memories. They are slippery, like fish. And so then you start to make little things up. Or you start to get distracted with the performance. Do the frames go with the wall paint? Should the chairs
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