Adriel Luis

Adriel Luis was The Nicholson Project’s 2021 Guest Curator, working with In-House Artist-in-Residence Hoesy Corona. 

Recommendation: BLIND SPOT BY TEJU COLE

“Cole's collection of written vignettes about travel are paired with photos he's taken throughout the world. Whenever I have a creative block, I love opening the book at a random page and getting a hit of inspiration from it.”

Book Description: The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open City. In more than 150 pairs of images and surprising, lyrical text, Cole explores his complex relationship to the visual world through his two great passions: writing and photography. Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.