CognEYEzant: 365

Day 300

Time Traveling Box and the Moonpit: Inspired by a Generous and Kind Woman and Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black Unicorn” India ink and watercolor on paper At the rummage sale that day, the kind and generous woman would never have known that she gave me the tools to time travel. Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black…

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CognEYEzant: 365

Day 277

Sibling Visión: Sonja’s Birthday: Part 4 Digital photograph Fifteen years ago today, she took her first breath. The first daylight melted through the windows, the room foggy after our mother’s labor, our faces stuck in perpetual anticipation. My tiny hands clung to the side of the tub, waiting, watching.  In the nine months leading up…

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CognEYEzant: 365

Day 276

A Time for Story: Inspired by Shakespeare and Hamlet Illustrated by John Austen Ink and India ink on paper As children, we soak up the culture and world around us, instinctively and knowingly. In the first few years of our lives, we learn what is essential to human interaction, we learn to communicate, to use…

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CognEYEzant: 365

Day 264

Kennedy Augusto Beer: Across the Sky, Connected by the Little Things Ink on paper My sister and I only knew Augusto from my mother’s memories and stories. We learned that he was from a country across the Atlantic Ocean, a country nestled on Africa’s coast, Guinea-Bissau. We learned that Augusto Beer lived with my mom’s…

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