"They are testing our worldview. They just drop a few ideas in and see how civilizations respond." - Paul Laffoley, Boston Visionary Cell
The fishermen, beaded with sweat, heroically pulled up the nets from the Red Sea and extracted the fish, big looking things, that they handled like trophies before tossing them back into a long ice chest.
I made a movie about visiting my in-laws on the Thanksgiving of 2020. It was an experience filled with catharsis, hot takes on current events, six feet of social distancing, a close encounter of the third kind, and a few bees.
Coronut is an expression of my anxieties documented during a family vacation we took during the first lockdown phase of COVID-19 in 2020. It's a carnival grotesque, if you will, inspired by The Blair Witch Project, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, and Albert Camus' The Plague.
“We just want to come together to build a place where our children will have peace for future generations.” - Campesino resident, Buga, Colombia
"We are a blood bank. We store vaccines. We store reagents. So I need constant electricity." - Edna Aden Ismial, Edna Aden Maternity Hospital
"When the developer was unable to access the water it thwarted his plans. The community wanted to see that the cultural and natural resources were protected." - Colleen Langan, Bernalillo County Open Space
"The number of regular Americans who have waterboarded themselves is small. Some do it out of curiosity, some as a prank. All are voluntarily experimenting with something the U.S. military -- along with most human-rights organizations -- considers torture." - Yochi Dreazen, The Wall Street Journal
"They are testing our worldview. They just drop a few ideas in and see how civilizations respond." - Paul Laffoley, Boston Visionary Cell