"There is no wisdom of the banal, just the smell of bougainvillea. Beige is a long walk through the suburbs of San Diego and Gardena, places the authors lived when they first moved to California."
Bruna Mori is a writer and educator, preoccupied with spatial discourses. Born in Japan, she moved itinerantly, yet keeps landing back in the San Diego suburbs. Her books are Poetry for Corporations (Insert Blanc Press, 2019) and Dérive (Meritage Press, 2006). She has published excerpts, articles, essays and chapbooks widely, most recently in Tank Magazine, and taught poetics at art and design schools in Southern California including the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she received her own BA; her MFA was completed at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. George Porcari is an artist and photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in Peru, George emigrated to Gardena, California in the sixties and began his lifelong vocation in observing and documenting his surroundings. Porcari attended Pratt Institute and Art Center College of Design, where he has also taught film and collage history classes and worked as an acquisitions librarian for many years. He has exhibited internationally since 1988; his most recent solo exhibitions were at Haphazard Gallery, Tif's Desk and China Art Objects. His numerous critical essays and other writings have appeared in CINEAction, NY arts, and Inflatable Magazine. He occasionally revisits the suburbs.
