The Room

Reviewing the Chico Review 2026 (part one)

I want to tell you about a week that broke me open in the best and worst possible ways. But before I get there, I need to take you to a hotel room in Vancouver, where it all started to feel real.

There were 43 prints spread across a bed that wasn’t mine. 6 years of work, maybe more, laid out in rows like some kind of offering I hadn’t yet learned how to …