Some more of my Extraordinary abilities....

More reads

Arjun Appadurai's book of essays - Fear of Small Numbers

In six short and clearly written chapters, Appadurai offers a compelling explanation about the sources of global unrest, terrorism, and ethnic strife

Read list

I will start posting books I am reading/ have read, and recommend them to others.

And this time:

Notes from NO MAn's Land - An American Essay by Eula Biss. The book won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and in March 2010, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism category. And, it is a great read.

Notes from No Man’s Land- American Essay

Status Pending

Since October 24, 2008, my case is in the "Initial Review" stage.

Still waiting

New drawings

New drawings, late 2009

One time we were almost @ the beach when we discovered we left my cousin @ home

I really wanted the Addidas Rom ™, white leather with blue stripes

If you were to walk into my room when the dream was ON you would see it too, I told her

An Alien of Extraordinary Abilities - the trailer

By Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman 2009

I-140 describes artists Nomi Talisman and Dee Hibbert-Jones’ five-year-long, $32,000 (and some small change) struggle to keep Talisman legally in the US. The video shows the couple holding hand-made signs on the side of Californian highways as traffic drives blindly by. Each sign describes a step in their struggle with the US immigration services. Their story is most especially ironic as Talisman’s own mother (and grandmother) are US citizens. If the couple were heterosexual Talisman would immediately be granted Hibbert-Jones’ US citizenship. Talisman and Hibbert-Jones have been working collaboratively for the last five years. They have continuously worked on Talisman’s immigration case for that same period. Despite active art careers their struggle with the US Immigration Services has been the major, key and foremost labor they have been engaged in during that time. Most recently Talisman applied to stay in the US under the I-140 Artist of Extraordinary Ability category; despite legal assurances that the case was strong it was rejected by an USCIS clerk in Nebraska based on “insufficient evidence.” Talisman’s current US visa application status is “pending.”

A studio visit - new work, 2009. In progress

New work - collages, 2009