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A photograph of a dimly-lit studio space filled with various pieces of furniture like chairs, cabinets, and railings. Draped over each piece of furniture and the floor is a sprawling scroll, with multiple cyanotype prints of different abstract nature in teal blue and white. Between the prints are also verses of poetry in black text on a white background. The scroll folds and overlaps onto itself.
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Anamnesis 6

Emily KrayAlexander Arce

My collaborator...and I struggled to find solid ground during the pandemic. Both of us became unemployed, we were still expected to pay rent and to take care of our families. Friendships became frayed and we felt the weight of isolation. In order to combat those realities and also to come to terms with our new reality, we decided to make this massive scroll to reflect how we felt; We wanted to focus on the fragility of the system that we lived in, so we wanted to juxtapose the extremes within the system. Poverty versus wealth, health versus illness, life versus death, isolation versus community thematically fill the scroll. We asked questions about how these stark differentials in quality of life exposed the weakness of leadership and the unfeeling dystopia of our late stage capitalist society.