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Nothing is embarrassing.

Heather Havrilesky
Nov 11, 2023
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The Artist Traveling Incognito (1949) by Leonora Carrington

Art smashes shame. Art reveals that all of this fear and sadness, all of this insecurity and need, all of this rage and longing, fits together into something bigger and more sublime.

You couldn’t see how it fit together before because you were taught that all of these pieces were embarrassing — …

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