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Action & Movement

  • A black barbarian armed with two axes leaps into action.
    Black Axe #2
  • Three dancers with red bands around their chests and black pants, caught in the middle of a twisting, bending dance.
    Caos de una Frida/Caos of one Frida
  • An abstract in oranges and blues, full of triangles and circles. The design evokes tambourines and drums, as well as a dancer bringing their leg around in a high leap.
    Capoeira
  • Screenshot from a video of the dance class. A number of dancers in a studio follow the lead of the instructor.
    Dance for Adults
  • The image is blurred, with large blocks of color like an abstract painting. Green to the lower left and right, yellow at upper right, and a white rectangular mass at the center. Several squiggles, like marks from yellow and white pens, can be seen in the upper half of the image. A strip of beige at the lower center draws the eye to a bright area at the center of the image.
    Harvard Yard
  • https://vimeo.com/887413490?share=copy
    Hidden in the Void
  • The image consists of blobs of color - white, red, blue, yellow, at the center band of the picture, with a dark blue-green sky and light ground foreground, as if you squinted while crossing a street.
    Memorial Drive
  • Screenshot of YouTube media player showing a heron plunging into water to catch a fish.
    Nature in slow motion
  • A Green Line train in the midst of a green and gold vortex of color. The train's headlights are illuminated and its destination sign reads "Union Square."
    Next stop is Union Square. Doors open on the right at Union Square
  • A brightly colored carnival ride, with a raised platform, sits on asphalt with other rides in the background.
    Old Orchard IV
  • A photograph of a pickleball player readying his shot. He wears a blue hat, dark shorts, and a green tank top reading NINER PRIDE; he holds the green ball high and is addressing someone to the right of the frame.
    Ready, Set, Pickleball!
  • Blurred MBTA subway cars from the red, green, and blue lines.
    RGB
  • A figure sits on a tire swing. The tire is black and the chain is gray and white. the figure is white with a black outline. The background is a blue sky with white clouds. The foreground has light green grass with darker grass.
    The “Playground Project” #15 Careful of the tall grass
  • A mobile with eight suspended reflective disks.
    Two Cubed
  • A small stainless steel sculpture of three figures on a perforated plane.
    Venusian Kitchen Utensils
  • A large mixed media painting with fan blades protruding from the surface and a stylized painting of a figure soaring through the air.
    Victor and the Breezespreader
  • Comic style drawing with 11 cells. Read as 4 separate pages left down. Figure looks at stuff. Turn back? You don’t turn back. Figure in blank space. Dandelion. You turn back. Narrative reads: You draw closer still to the barrier. Your steps slowing as you reach the last five feet of available ground before the wall. You want to turn back. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back. You somehow ignore the urge to turn back and close the last little bit of distance between you and the wall. You’re close enough to kiss it, if you wanted too.. (what a strange notion. You don’t want to kiss the wall.) It sounds like nothing. Not silence, but nothing. It smells sour…Your teeth ache this close to the barrier. And you know that to reach out and touch it would be a grave mistake. You don’t want the story to end yet. You don’t want to end. You turn back.
    You Turn Back
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