Sometime in 2012, I started attending art museums and galleries because I wanted to include different modalities beyond those of literature and words. This was spurred by my interest in writers that were challenging or playing with traditional narrative and poetic form in ways that seemed architectural or painterly in scope. They treated the text as objects to be stacked and arranged, and were often accused of being haphazard and without purpose. But with some patience and a

From sailor to mediocre actor, amateur painter to photographer ingénue, Eugène Atget is an example of failing at what you want until you succeed at what you love. Atget lived in a rapidly changing Paris. The city was modernizing and instead of fighting the inevitability of change, he did something bold. He used his talents to preserve the city he loved. His subject was France, but he focused his work on Parisian interiors, vehicles, and something he called petites métiers, or