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The Strategic Air and Space Museum

Spending this sunny morning with Milan Kundera’s Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Magnus Lindberg’s cello concerto, an endless bag of Kettle Brand Sea Salt & Vinegar Potato Chips, and few happy cups of Espresso con Panna was very much my kind of Saturday-morning-extravaganza. After few hours of reading, though, it was starting to feel somewhat outlandish to exclusively sync with Karenin, the dog of Tomáš and Tereza,...

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Particle

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Particle IX | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang Waking up from a motionless dream around three o’clock in the morning, I was physically and emotionally prickly like a baby polar bear being carried around inside of a mommy Kangoroo’s pouch for a week. I closed my eyes for five minutes, pretending that I was just dreaming about waking up within a dream. Gee. It didn’t work. I was wide-awake. What made...

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus

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The Don L. Love Memorial Library at UNL | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   Waking up around 5 a.m. on Black Friday to visit major retailers with my handheld field-recording devices has developed into an annual ritualistic comportment over the past few years. The massive sonic scenery of the crowd swarming toward doorbusters was extraordinary, and to me, this was the sound symbolizing the love, adoration, and the...

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Laumeier Sculpture Park

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  My mind was unfrozen by the unusually warm November morning while driving toward Laumeier Sculpture Park located in the outskirt of St. Louis. Pristine visual memory of Louise Bourgeois’s enormous spider sculpture flashed with her remark, invading my abysmal sense of direction, bit by bit.   "Emotions are universal. The artist has access to his unconscious through his work. This is a gift, and it is magic. My work...

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