Prasida Clare

Newman

Writer (and data analyst) based in New York City

ABOUT CLARE

Whether describing the scent of a perfume or a date that happened yesterday, Prasida Clare Newman aims to capture the immediacy of emotions. So much of what we believe comes from the outside, but no one can tell us how something smells.

Prasida Clare Newman's "We Are Closer Too" uses rows of televisions all tuned to the same channel as a metaphor to describe how we cannot escape the ways we are connected to each other.

Let us stop flourishing our weapons; let us pray for peace. We can set our own intention too. Altogether, like televisions tuned into the same channel or synchronizing telescopes on something so far away it is impossible to capture by any single instrument, we peer into our own darkness. If we dare to look closer at ourselves, what can we discover? 

“We Are Closer Too,” Forthcoming in Marrow Magazine

Let's smell together

Let's smell together