San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)

IN RESIDENCE

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These “culture workers” as I call them, are another version of first responders; most of the people featured in this column work for themselves. So they understand what financial uncertaint­y and having a focus outside of an expectatio­n of traditiona­l success feel like. When I began working on this monthly column three years ago, I never envisioned a time in San Francisco when people wouldn’t be able to gather. As our notion of cultural intimacy shifts, and the longer this pandemic is present in our collective lives, I keep getting the sense that this new normal could be a chance to create something better than what existed before. Let’s hope.

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“All of a sudden, what goes into an art event is now made completely clear to people of how many people the arts employ. It’s not just this touchy-feely thing all about the artist. It’s like the art is its own constellat­ion and its own galaxy. And in that galaxy around each artist there’s a lot of other people, there’s a lot of support with it. So that support network is one of the first things that collapses along with the artists. And that’s why I say no one is winning at this.”
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“So I came up with ‘Little Ri’ because with all the Zoom and FaceTime and everything, I don’t even want to look at my face all the time, like what about if I made a little puppet me, and I could talk to other people and it would be like ‘Hi, Risa on the line.’ And I feel like with puppets and stuff too, people are like more willing to tell you their deep, dirty secrets.”
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