LARB Pub Lab | Issue 3 Summer 2020

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31 Jul An Account of These Two Years

Posted at 16:45h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Lillian Lu: you see, I wouldn’t call myself a poet/ as I have not thought poetically in some time/ like a flower is petals, stem, and powder...

An abstract landscape of brightly colored shapes.

31 Jul Three Scenes from the 5

Posted at 14:19h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Justine Yan: For hours and hours we are have been will be driving down the Interstate 5—...

A woman throws her head back in bliss at her long-awaited acceptance of the new normal after lockdown. A symbolic chrysalid evolves into a butterfly, and her whole body is filled with the sunset over Downtown Los Angeles and its emblematic palm trees.

31 Jul Searching for Solstice

Posted at 14:17h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Carissa McQueen: The buzz of the world enters her dream before she knows she's waking up. A low flying police helicopter. The irregular cadence...

A panoramic view of an empty city block at night. The buildings are seen across four panels, with light illuminating the street and interior of some buildings.

31 Jul Time in Place: How One Thai Artist’s Printmaking Is Both Preserving and Advancing Thai Culture

Posted at 13:47h in Essays 3.0, Interviews, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Adam Love: Amorn Thongpayong (อมร ทองพยงค์) is an award-winning Thai visual artist who explores themes of place, transition, history, tradition, and memory...

Black and white print of an elderly woman holding flowers in her hand with a hummingbird

31 Jul Lineage and Language

Posted at 11:40h in Essays, Essays 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Ruddy Lopez: Throughout my adulthood, curanderas have said that my grandmother watches over me. I knew this was true when my mother came back...

“Unpatriotic” – A small child in yellow stands on her toes to repeat writing these lines on a chalkboard: “I will pledge allegiance.” Allegiance is misspelled in all six lines written. There is a stool to her left shaped and numbered like a tri-level ranking podium. The teacher on the far left has her arms crossed and her face out of frame. She wears blue and white. Everything else, besides the child’s outfit, is in shades of red and pink.

31 Jul Unpatriotic

Posted at 11:26h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Kristen Simental: Nina Salas was six years old when she was branded unpatriotic by school officials. The frazzled principal Mr. Kirk, her matronly first-grade...

“IMPERMANENCE” – This piece seeks to materialize a notion of impermanence where water and earth converge, capturing a moment of constant change, of growth and decay, of birth and death.

31 Jul on fish

Posted at 09:37h in Creative, Creative 3.0, Issue 3 Summer 2020

By Luz Jiménez Ruvalcaba: he is my father’s son — my father, in the name of tall horses/ snake killer my father, in the name of lavender doves/ opossum...