Autotranslucence · 2018
Becoming a magician
When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised about things like having a family of twelve children, designing my own octagonal.
Why we picked it
Turns an adolescent fantasy of designing an unconventional family life into a reflection on making imagined possibilities real.
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