Sylvia Atwood

Sylvia Atwood

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metaphor, mastery, and mental gymnastics [A&C]

By Sylvia Atwood | October 6

In her aggressively air-conditioned studio, Asher White—musician, visual artist, writer—struggles to keep a blanket up around her shoulders as she looks for a pencil and paper. She wants to explain to me how she conceptualizes songwriting using a graph with four quadrants. The graph is structured ...

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in the pool [narrative]

By Sylvia Atwood | October 1

I like to stay as still as possible when I’m in the pool, slouching, my body submerged up to my eyes. I stay like this for as long as I can, holding my breath, letting the pressure build in my chest until I release it all at once. The bubbles come barreling out of my nose with a thunder only my submerged ...

metaphor, mastery, and mental gymnastics [A&C]

in the pool [narrative]

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