-, for the sake of this moment in time, is an exhibition. It is one of many lives the hyphen will live. The other lives existing simultaneous to the exhibition are as an interrupter, a bridge, a magnet between identities, even a horizon line. The horizontality of - negates the decidedly upright and favors hybridity of a paradoxical nature. Verticality suggests a hierarchical stance, as I might offer Adriana Cavarero's noting of who else..the philosophus erectus...who has straightened himself up according to the luminous axis of truth," a decisive halt in anything surrounding man and his connection to the divine above. But what is to be made of everything along the horizon line, as far as the eye can see? The inherent unlivable quality of this moment in time recalls a many-headed hydra: familiar faces like climate change, a televised genocide of Palestinian people, fascism alive and well in the "greatest country or earth", eradication of trans and immigrant rights - I will interrupt myself here, because we know the rest. But as we acquaint ourselves with the many lives - possesses, we will step outside of this luminous y-axis of truth and instead walk along the ever-extended x-axis presented in -'s exhibition. You and I, all of us, we'll hold the many lives lived and understand that this moment is a short pause, a brief respite in the world that demands singular truths and savor the exhibition's permission to contemplate the -