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Dec 3, 2024

Seeking loveliness / Going numb

Amy Chu chasing beauty, and new fiction from Colin McGowan

The author as a fantastically dolled-up creature in white clouds of puff admiring herself in a cheval glass

Today: Amy Chu, artist and publisher of Camoot.Journal; and Colin McGowan, a writer living in Chicago.

Issue No. 213

Searching for Beauty
Amy Chu

Iberia
Colin McGowan

Searching for Beauty

by Amy Chu

Caption: Searching for Beauty / In response to On Beauty & Being Just by Elaine Scarry. Drawing: The author in a fluffy cloudlike puffs of white and cute black boots.

The author, in puff and white tights now, seated before the more beautiful frontal version of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 'Pygmalion and Galatea' (1890)

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