They Said Engineers Don’t Give Birth to Artists. They Were Wrong.

Becoming your own person is never a frivolity

Margarita Gokun Silver
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readJul 19, 2019

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“We decided yours should be first,” the curator tells me. “We are all in love with it.”

The opening of the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art Academy alumni exhibition is just beginning when I arrive, panting after finally finding a parking spot some five…

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Margarita Gokun Silver
Human Parts

A freelance journalist. Author of the I NAMED MY DOG PUSHKIN (AND OTHER IMMIGRANT TALES) essay collection— https://buff.ly/39AsHhL. www.MargaritaGokunSilver.com