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On Ornamental Palms
As a kid, they were mystical, Seussical, otherworldly.

by Alex Tell
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Storytelling as Gift, Storytelling as Currency
On storytelling economies.

by Daniela Bologna
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Introducing Ecologies of Entanglement
A new series from Are.na and Dark Properties.

by Willa Köerner and Meg Miller
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Sound(s) As I See It
Music is a lifeline.

by Alice Otieno
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Felt Time
A durational piece, akin to a living fossil.

by Tess Murdoch
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Sects in the City
A diaristic repository of my dating experiences.

by Shelby Shaw
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What Makes It Through
On projecting the outside inward.

by Shelby Wilson
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Ephemera: A Rock Collection
In the beginning, there was magma.

by Michelle Santiago Cortés
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All the Tenderness of Attention
An excerpt from our audio experiment with Montez Press Radio.

by Sharon Neema
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ENTRANCE
From where it was to where it is.

by David Reinfurt
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The Future Will Be Like Perfume
After Brian Eno.

by alphonse f
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Ephemeral Cities
On perfume and urban utopias

by Emily Jensen
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Carcinogenic Fantasy
On the prickly aroma of hydrocarbons.

by Vivian Medithi
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Dowsing
Orange and silver memories. 

by Amelia K.
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Worldly Things
And heavenly scents.

by Katy Kelleher
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Post-Fragrantica Manifesto
Perfume’s digital slouch towards flatness.

by Audrey Robinovitz
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Cherry Chapstick
Smells like seventh grade.

by C.C.
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Death’s Signature Scent
Decay becomes her.

by Daniel Pearce
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Notes on Notes
True freshness in a bottle…

by Maya Man
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Metaphorically Speaking
In the rainy breath of time.

by Meg Miller
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