Aric Allen

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    • His Portrait, Her Hair

      His Portrait, Her Hair

      Mustafa Ali Clayton opened his studio and let me document his process.

    • Building Your Own Tools

      Building Your Own Tools

      Artist Wang Mansheng crafts his own brushes from found natural materials.

    • My Dad Asked Me What Acid Felt Like

      My Dad Asked Me What Acid Felt Like

      A story about dropping acid at a Grateful Dead show stirs conflict at a family dinner and unfolds into a lyrical reflection on marriage, memory, and how we navigate our way back to one another.

    • Mineo Has a Chainsaw

      Mineo Has a Chainsaw

      Making a sculpture using carbonized California oak, steel, and ceramic.

    • The Cabin Notebook

      The Cabin Notebook

      It’s about the time I spent the winter in a cabin, in the mountains of Arizona, because I thought I was going to write a novel. Something else happened that I think about almost every day.

    • Clusters of Eden

      Clusters of Eden

      I translated an infamous nineteenth century origin myth for the twenty first century.

    • The Old Menus of New Chinatown

      The Old Menus of New Chinatown

      Retracing the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese restaurant menus as a guide.

    • 1-800-KISS-MY-ASS

      1-800-KISS-MY-ASS

      In the five years I worked for Russ, he pulled three hundred and thirty million dollars out of his company.

    • Bay of Smokes

      Bay of Smokes

      Smog first came to Los Angeles suddenly, like a stranded hitchhiker. It was July 8th, 1943, and we were at war…

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