Samuel and Olivia Ellina, Emma & Danielle Sagarika & Sizo Marta & Mrunal Artist Statement “Keoi mm sek gong” “Sek teng mou?” “I bē bêng-pe̍k” I was surrounded by mouths moving with familiar-unfamiliar tongues, words I had always heard, but never understood. Back then, it was easier to tune their voices out, easier to choose
I’m in my early teenage years, traveling back home with my father and mother after a short vacation. We always fly through the Tribhuvan International Airport, and our stopover usually being the Qatar Airport. The Tribhuvan International Airport, the only international airport in Nepal, is small as a domestic airport here in the US, maybe
When I was in second grade, I had my first communion in the catholic church. I wore a fluffy white dress and veil with my hair done up high, como una princessa. My whole family traveled from Mexico City to Texas for the occasion. Mass was that morning and I had a soccer game in
I was too untidy—that’s the reason, she said, I couldn’t live with them that fall, in that little house of theirs. That’s the reason I had to leave. That house, squeezed between the dying pub and the young family, whose newborn’s cry drifted through the walls on the first night I slept there. When I
As a computer science and math student, I keep thinking how the process of translating Chinese text to English is takes exact same logic when I try to convert my ideas into computer code for computers to execute. Things have never been easy for people who lives in translation, especially being a Chinese student studying
“History is full of people who just didn’t. They said no thank you, turned away, ran away to the desert, stood on the streets in rags, lived in barrels, burned down their own houses, walked barefoot through town, killed their rapists, pushed away dinner, meditated into the light.” — Anne Boyer, No The fire trails came after
Amr. Amar? Amr. Amre? Just call me Amouri. When I first met Amr, we were both first-years in an international high school in Germany. Over the next two years, we shared a room, our hate for chemistry- and math classes and our love for coffee and cigarettes. Consequently, we became best friends. It took a
