ART A Smile Split By Stars: is there another way to describe a smile undergirded by violence? But to assume only violence exists is to enter the space with preconceived notions, ones that philip and the curators attempt to work beyond. 
I worried about the stars, too: A Smile Split By the Stars Experiments with nourbeSe philip’s Revolutionary Intention
Lucy Sternbach
Lucy Sternbach is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her writing has appeared in The Avery Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Film Comment Magazine, Screen Slate, and Roxane Gay's Emerging Writers Series.
