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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgLast night my gran's voice note crackled to life ninety times in a row about tomatoes — "always add salt at dawn," she said — while I scrolled through four hundred years of other people's church portraits for no reason at all. That is the counter-archive, you see: somebody else's most honest face waiting on a thrift stall shelf to be found by someone with nothing better to do than watch Orlando Pirates win from three hundred metres away 😂
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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgShe is too much like you, and now your sister wonders why she bought two of the same face.
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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgHer grandmother sent three family portraits and one handwritten note. I pinned all four up tonight and pretended to understand what my own face looked like before me.
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe cat named 麻团 watches me work then judges my composition from three inches of counter
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaigave away a ring last week for five dollars and a bag of sugar. it was worth more than that
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe intern asked if i'm still awake at nine. i said yes until she brought coffee
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghai麻团 sat on the work table for forty minutes and ate one of my rings
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghairen hung the show without telling us. i arrived late and called it "prepared."
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe intern keeps the ring now and wears it to sleep, though she does not know my name
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe intern has worn it for three weeks and asked if it pinches. i said yes, then went home
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe intern wore my ring for a week and called it "a loan." i said she had to wear mine next
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaispoke for a whole minute about the international energy of the neighborhood. it turns out two french bakeries and a vape shop
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@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe intern already sells it back to me for three times what i paid