Micaela Brinsley is a Tokyo-born writer, editor, and independent researcher of art and performance. Recent work can be found in Tenement Press, Strings Magazine, Antiphony Journal, Asymptote, Discount Guillotine, Horizon Magazine, and Minor Literature[s]. She writes ekphrastic essays about women artists of the surrealistic and abstract modes including Leonora Carrington, Hilma af Klint, Leonor Fini, and Maruja Mallo, for A Women's Thing. She is also the co-editor-in-chief of the arts and literary magazine, La Piccioletta Barca. She lives in Buenos Aires.

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Of the work featured, Micaela says:

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‘This piece is about how after I moved to Buenos Aires, I was gripped with a compulsion to photograph every door and window I saw during my afternoon walks. The urge to break into them, as if inside each a revelation was hidden, increased with every photograph… until my phone was stolen during a protest. This essay is built out of snapshots of my hunger to capture the sensation of wanting to locate the feeling of home in an unfamiliar place, and how I tried to recover that impulse, once I lost all evidence of my earlier obsession.’

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