I have a lifetime project which consists of boxes and boxes filled with envelopes on which people have … - Micah Lexier

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Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

Micah Lexier

I have a lifetime project which consists of boxes and boxes filled with envelopes on which people have written my name. I've always thought of it as a kind of double portrait, and a portrait of our relationship, which in some cases means nothing. But it makes me feel connected.

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