“Unveiling Layers of Reality: Can ‘Snapshots’ Redefine the Art of Visual Storytelling?”
And in Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s “The Distance,” we are brought into the nebulous concept of time, how it is at once happening now, but also later, and in the past: “Time, maybe. Morality, maybe. That this had taken you your whole life so far. That if you were to feel, you were going to have to be hurt.”
But it’s not always about feeling, although so many of these pieces are. It would be difficult to tease out any emotion from any of these essays, because, they contain multitudes, which we are acutely aware of their subjectivity, like in Lynell George’s “Off Map,” in which she discusses a paper courtesy map offered by a hotel, how a “brief squiggle of a pen down Charles Street connects nothing to nothing, how it floats from here to there, without being present or future.”
