Compression: Kimberly Dark
“Compression has been an important tool in my writing and live storytelling for years. I make stories that show full cultural concepts, via metaphor and detail, in miniature. Much of my print and stage work explores the contours of privilege and oppression – how macro-concepts like race and class and gender become salient in our everyday lives. That requires compressed images that zoom out large as soon as the reader touches them. All the concepts are here, in miniature, via a poetic dreamscape interspersed with conversational language that lets the reader in. ” — Kimberly Dark
“Compression has been an important tool in my writing and live storytelling for years. I make stories that show full cultural concepts, via metaphor and detail, in miniature. Much of my print and stage work explores the contours of privilege and oppression – how macro-concepts like race and class and gender become salient in our everyday lives. That requires compressed images that zoom out large as soon as the reader touches them. All the concepts are here, in miniature, via a poetic dreamscape interspersed with conversational language that lets the reader in. ” — Kimberly Dark
