writings

PUBLISHED IN THE VIEW MAGAZINE, UK. JUNE 2020 She asked me where it came from. And I realised I had no idea. I still don’t.   It’s just sort of always been there. It’s not the example I got from my parent’s relationship… and it’s not as simple as pointing to that tune by The […]

FOR BRITISH VOGUE, APRIL 2020 On Mother’s Day, Brooklyn-based British artist Zoë Buckman reflects on her journey through grief a year after losing her mum and “best friend”, the playwright and renowned RADA acting teacher Jennie Buckman, to cancer in 2019. They say grief is love. But they also say grief is a madness. It’s

SWAMIJI. PERFORMED BY THE ARTIST FOR THE CULTIVIST, 2016, ART AGAINST TRUMP, 2017, AND AT PAUL KASMIN GALLERY 2018 AS A CHAMP PROGRAM.   SWAMIJI   The sluggish Swami sat, slumped on my Bredrin’s sofa, just south of 117th Street. Dressed in orange Puma gear, his chubby upper-lip was sprinkled with wispy hairs that I’m

FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ARTIST’S EYE, 2018. 2018: The year that the words “rape,” “assault” and “harass” became inescapable, appearing seemingly everywhere online and in news media across the United States. The year heads rolled and lives were ruined. The year tales were discredited and others simply forgotten. The year of too much