Clark, smile with your teeth, 2020

smile with your teeth, 2020

Nicole Clark

Collage print sourced with 2005-2010 New Yorker magazine clippings; printed on archival photo paper

11x14" unframed - 16x20" framed

"smile with your teeth" is part of the chronic hope series

This short essay explains the chronic hope collage series: https://medium.com/til-queendom-come/my-way-20371315bb71

“My rage, like my chronic hope, is a hard-earned habit. I was raised on hope and taught to bury my rage. Later, I learned the truth: One cannot live without the other. Hope too piddles and dithers if it is not stoked by some hot need for the future to still be there for me when I’m older.”
–Nicole Clark, chronic hope (2020 Essay)