{"id":24810,"date":"2024-01-23T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24810"},"modified":"2024-01-27T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T19:10:52","slug":"asoss-11-impostor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2024\/01\/23\/asoss-11-impostor\/","title":{"rendered":"aSoSS 11 | Impostor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Do you think work will say anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t think so, I work at Banner Health but I\u2019m in the office, I don\u2019t deal with the patients face-to-face. I imagine they are more relaxed with their policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yeah, if you\u2019re representing a medical firm I\u2019d assume they want you to be more, like, neutral, to cater for the diversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fantastic Sam\u2019s, 1:00PM, 12\/12\/2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>if diversity asked you to the party, would you have the courage to dance? verna myers would believe. she would seize the moment &#8212; you only live once, she might say. and maybe that&#8217;s the problem: we split into a fractal, a kaleidoscope of memory, illuminated by the neurons of the strangers we pass everyday. bright, blinking, gone. the moonlight catches the hairs on your cheek. i reach up to brush them away. upon closer examination, it is a scar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>life is short. wear it like a pixie cut, like a quiff, like a bob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I have this really weird twinge about Instagram about being perfect. Like, on TikTok I don\u2019t care, I\u2019ll post about being silly or something but on Instagram \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiktok feels super casual.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2013 Exactly. I could have no makeup and be talking and I wouldn\u2019t care, but if I did that on Instagram, uh oh, there\u2019s like a mental block for me with the aesthetic, and appearing on other people\u2019s feed, you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Denver International Airport, 12:00PM, 1\/8\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>consider a future modern art exhibition. large indium screens are plastered across six-by-eight feet windows. it is a prison, a jail cell, a red-blood among a sea of great-whites. my sense of smell strikes like a lightning bolt. the cloud erupts, quivers, begins to cry. why are you imprisoned? the door is open. all you have to do is fall. pull the plug. short pleasure, long repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m stuck in a hotel with a thousand other people that I don\u2019t know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yeah, especially like the numbers on the door?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall, 6:30PM, 1\/11\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before: an infinite number of guests walk into a hotel&#8230; where do they go? up the stairs, through the halls, n-plus-one steps more. the days blend together. who am i? you look to your right and i stare back at you. we are one and the same. i reach out at the same time as you, like a mirror, except our fingers touch. the shadow of the mind sends reality staggering. the doors slam shut. outside, the sun sets once more. <em>spend another day with me?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think work will say anything? I don\u2019t think so, I work at Banner Health but I\u2019m in the office, I don\u2019t deal with the patients face-to-face. I imagine they are more relaxed with their policy. Yeah, if you\u2019re representing a medical firm I\u2019d assume they want you to be more, like, neutral, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2272,"featured_media":24293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2077,1257,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24810"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24855,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24810\/revisions\/24855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}