Priya Jay was Afterall Writer in Residence between January and June 2021. Her essay can be read here.
To mark the eventual culmination of my residency, through this stretchy-porous year, I share this stretchy-porous text. It was written and edited on Google Docs, and that is how I give it over to you. Click the links, and tabs will bloom on your browser, let them multiply, this is how the research found me and how I slowly found my words.
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