Larissa Pham

I have been known to paint in my life.

I was a double major in studio art and history of art when I was in college.

And I have painted in the past.

I'm not currently painting now, but I do try to draw actually.

That's like a real interest of mine right now.

Yeah.

I spent so much time kind of steeped in art history, really steeped in

Learning how to look at art and asking certain kinds of questions about it That I think I tend to see the world through the lens of visual art It's kind of just like it's how some people might see the world through like movies Or music like I feel like for better for worse like art history is my lens and so I really enjoyed getting to do a little bit of research and

getting to do that in a way where what I could pull out of the research could somehow enrich the text and kind of relate to something that Christine was thinking about or something that Christine was concerned with.

So it felt really fun.

It didn't quite feel like school.

It felt a little bit more playful or expansive in that way.

I am a speed runner.

I do like to get a sense of like what's there.

And I think I've been a little burned by like moving too slowly through a museum and being like, oh, man, I didn't get to see everything that I wanted to see.

And the way that I've actually kind of negotiated this is I just get museum memberships so that I can go more than once and I can really focus.

If I'm seeing a show for the first time and it's like a biennial or something, something really big, I will try to kind of be brisk and walk through it.

But at the same time, I also really love spending time with an individual work and seeing what it yields because I think...

A lot of work doesn't always give everything away at first glance.

And so it's good to spend time with it.