Notes from the Dishwasher Café

Notes from the Dishwasher Café

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Notes from the Dishwasher Café
Notes from the Dishwasher Café
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Costume & the self

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Caroline Manring
Oct 20, 2021
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Please, wear a costume this Halloween.

It is:

  • A creative process. Don’t go buy something pre-assembled for you in a bag. Require yourself to grope in the recesses of your lower dresser drawers, burrow in the dark of your closet, sort through forgotten boxes. Call friends for that one pair of ridiculous shoes they have, assemble poor facsimiles of everyday…

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