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Will Boucher's avatar

i was so enthralled in this, I couldn't stop scrolling. congrats on winning the pizza war.

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

I know, right? These are important battles. I still haven’t spent the “unspendable” 50 euros—having become surprisingly magical. But that is another story!

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Will Boucher's avatar

Stay strong 💪

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Katie Beyrer's avatar

Hurrah to new beginnings in your new home. Enjoy your time with your folks. 🤗

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Gina Burton's avatar

Happy Pizza! What a name for a French pizza parlour. Reminds me of Pizza Phil, at the foot of Mont Ventoux, where our kids’ cokes cost more than our (delicious) rose😉

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Oh that is funny. I personally find that « Happy Pizza » is the most ludicrous name for an upscale Pizza joint that I have ever heard of. Call it something fancy, non?

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Morgan Beatty's avatar

I'm just happy that Andrew and I can stop pretending now that the cat's out of the bag. Properly nailed us in a beautiful piece! 30 seconds was enough to wait on this one.

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

You must feel such relief!

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ARC's avatar

This is so beautifully written. It is a different voice than the other pieces recently, so that is very cool to read. Flowed top level. The first chapter is strange but also the photos are so amazing and help contextualize the text so well that I was blown away and envious of the experience. Your photos are dope. The hallway photo from the move is dope. The first photo of the snail, the way you use scale made me think it was a large replica of a snail on the stone floor part of the exhibit. I had to look a couple times to realize it was just a CU of a snail. Then the second chapter was such a sweet transition into from chapter one into taking part of the art experience and making a lesson of it that you could do with your students and then share that almost speaks to the meaning in the art in chapter one. Then there is chapter three which I almost don't know what to make of. Not a criticism at all, but it becomes a bit of a small morality play with a metaphorical hint. What are we supposed to observe about this story? Was is the smallest detail we can notice?

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Maybe it was de evolution of the children that was interesting, how easily we slide into barbarism… maybe I can link this to the archipelago because the shrimp/lobster creature is actually a carnivorous creature (according to its creator, it’s a chaos monster eating and cleaning the world!)

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Yeah, Andrew… you are absolutely right. What the hell is the pizza doing in there? It probably belongs in a totally different piece. You just reminded me of a pact I made with myself to wait 12 hours after finishing writing before I hit publish. I waited 30 seconds this time.

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ARC's avatar

Yeah I think it belongs and it's perfect as it is. I just think it added a bit of a twist to the sequence. There's a ton of parallel. The pizzas were too small.

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B. Eldon Calder's avatar

Nothing I can't see bound between the pages of a book! (And a book I would buy!).

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hope(less) on sundays's avatar

i'm coming to stay once you've moved!!! :)

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

See you tomorrow, then!

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hope(less) on sundays's avatar

i’ll bring treats

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Nancy Ulin's avatar

Couldn't get the video link to work, but you paint a perfect picture of your new beginning.

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Thanks for telling me, I was wondering if it would work!

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