Deborah Amaral

My short term studio space, temporarily occupying the formal entrance to our home. Looking forward to the new space opening up for us very soon! Meanwhile, I made some more copper boxes at the John C. Campbell Folk School two weeks ago. They resemble Shaker boxes. Pics coming.

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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

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thanks Els the Dutch Girl for leading me here.

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How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler When Elon Musk’s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the…

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

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Shaping copper with saw, hammer, and "chisels" at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, during a cold and icy week in January 2025.

Making copper boxes.

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