How does one find presence in a race? I’ve seen where a lack of awareness, of the self, of those around you, of the world, can get someone. Someone so desperate to confirm their own worldview, their fears, that they cannot truly see those they profess to love. Lonely and old, in a cave, babbling to themselves in a language only they speak, only they care about. If that.
Posts published by “Victoria Winter”
Victoria Winter is trying to prove that nothing human is alien to us. On paper, she is a second year student at Seattle Central College, potentially majoring in anthropology and philosophy. In reality, she is fascinated by using the mediums of photojournalism and writing to explore subcultures - the fringes, the limelight, and everything in between. She is in love with humans. Her only firm beliefs are that everything should be explored and most things are easier at night.
We all have our own connotations of psychics. Maybe you imagine crystal balls and beaded curtains, incense so thick you can barely breathe. Maybe that’s a comforting idea too, sitting down with someone who can provide the clarity so many of us desperately want. Maybe it’s just something you sneer at.
I could lie to myself, but I won’t. Inland Empire (2006), presented at the Beacon Cinema, was monotonously schizophrenic. There will be a point in the stuffy dark, after and amidst all the nonsense where you’re trying to remember the plot, that you realize you will never get these three hours back.
In photos: Nakba 74 protest in light of the killing of Palestinian-American journalist
Victoria WinterMay 15 at Westlake Center, a rally was organized to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in light of the recent murder of Palestinian-American Journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh, and to call for an end to United States relations with Israel.
It is Sunday, the sun is out, and thus, so is Laugen Pretzel. Posted along the chainlink of 17th Ave. and East Pike Street, to civilian eyes, this is an elegant, little Bavarian pretzel cart…
This is a most human event. We gather here today to visit a fistful of nature, or a cupping hand, it depends from man to man. The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival was here. The…
Wednesday Feb. 16 Twice Sold Tales celebrated its 35 years in business. Twice Sold Tales – Seattle’s only cat-bookstore – owner Jamie Lutton is an encyclopedia. “No good book-scout can do it without being a reader,…
There’s so much trust that we put in strangers. Driving, eating, shopping — these all require a roll of the dice, a little faith in the stranger next to you. But what about the carousel…
It is Nov. 5, 2021, 8 p.m. This is the first and last one we’ll ever experience. You will drift from white wall to white wall of art, sipping rosé, and it will be the…
As we’re painting the walls of my childhood home in Mississippi, readying it for a price tag, my mother tells me a story. You know the game MASH — that pen and paper kid’s game…