Tag: Dwayne Pigee

2020: Learning from those who Passed Away

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  We can learn from people who passed away, even if we don’t always know what. Every life offers multiple perspectives on how to find meaning. To improvise on a theme from Wallace Stevens, twenty people dying are one death with something to teach us, and also twenty deaths with twenty things each to teach us about the value of a […]

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Outsider: The loss and lost work of Dwayne Pigee (1974 – 2016)

  Humans are complicated, flawed, and nuanced beings. Artists are no exception, and oftentimes  personal struggles, even mental illnesses, are central to our fascination with them and their creations. We make sense out of the world through narratives, and artists are our cultural alchemists, transforming emotion and thought into physical form, which are beautiful, and often emotionally evocative. To know […]

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