Lisa Birk

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Making it Work: 4 Tips for Squeezing Writing between

Making it Work: 4 Tips for Squeezing Writing between

Some weeks before my artist friend Vicki Paret’s baby arrived, she stretched nine canvases of equal size. She gridded nine rectangles on...

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