Author: Brenda (Bz) Zhang & Dominique Moody
DM: And so, the realism part of something being magical, is that we live in the real world, and we are influenced by that real world. However, the ways in which we feel that real world is astonishing. And that is where we can step into a space that is magical.
BZ: What I love about what you’re saying is that earlier, when we were talking about code switching and how to actually describe the work that you do through text, I was thinking about the phrase “in between,” where magic is the reality that is in between other realities, or at least it is the experience of a reality between other realities. “Between” doesn’t happen unless there’s something to be in between.
DM: I had some kid say, what does “no mad” mean—is it that you’re not mad?
BZ: Oh, I love that!
DM: The kid was right, I’m not mad now, because I’m no longer stressed about home insecurity, I could create my own. It took a while but over a period of time I found one of the most poetic definitions of “NOMAD”, a term used as a proverb. And the proverb was “birds of passage.”
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