Excerpt from the novel I want you to teach me how to die. That was how it began. It was the first time that anyone would make such a request to me. I was a grief counselor and I had listened to narratives of pain as varied as the secrets of the world. But no one had...
This fellowship at Civitella Ranieri provided me with a chance to talk to artists in other disciplines and find out how they worked- to find out what inspired them, how the idea for a work was born, and then how they subjected that inspiration or idea to the rigour of...
Perhaps the most important thing Civitella provided me was the uninterrupted time to produce my work, which despite my efforts, is nearly impossible to make happen in my normal life in New York. While in Italy, I focused on staging and photographing still lifes and...
I worked at Civitell Ranieri in a state of bliss. My studio (Pizza) was quiet and well equipped and beautiful visually, to the point that I felt like I had my own house in the hills of Umbria. I loved and respected my Fellows so meals were electrifying. The food was...
