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Bruna Mori is a writer and educator, preoccupied with spatial discourses and engagement. She has authored books of poetry, articles, and essays, and has taught interdisciplinary studies and creative writing at Woodbury School of Architecture, University of California San Diego (UCSD), California Institute of the Arts,
Southern California Institute of Architecture, and Art Center College of Design. Her MFA and BA degrees were completed at Bard College and UCSD. Outside of publishing and academia, she has written for design labs, arts institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
Excerpt from : On That Day,
2014, Marine Contemporary 015 | "Fragile Kit" Wendy Heldmann
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" Wendy Heldmann has prefabricated a Memory Palace recycled from moments before disaster— before the contents of one’s fragile kit transform into another’s, disintegrates, or is forgotten in place.
Cupcake-balloon sparkler umbrella piñata suspected festooned floral somewhere. The sky was wild with sunshine draws us closer to the balloons,
There is a presence of absence in the accumulated collapse; no paint where recollection fades; titles hover as question marks. What luck, emblematic of this moment before, will deflate balloons in the uneasy happiness of a dining room.
not floating into sunlight at all, but meeting a short and sure death in an interior, though blue, sure to displease the balloons.