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Child 1 taps Child 2’s head exclaiming, “goose.” All the other children watch silently as ducks. Child 1 chases Child 2 in slow-mo, wide-angle zoom on their adolescent smile, flowers tossed by the crew over their head. Child 1 slows, Child 2 crashes into Child 1, they fall to the ground and “accidentally” kiss. The teacher jumps to pull Child 1 off of Child 2. She explains that they can’t kiss because they are only seven. Child 1 explains how they saw it in a movie once.
Riley Hanson (b.1995, Akron, Ohio) currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Recent solo exhibitions and publications include When You Care Too Much Your Guts Slips Out, Gallery Bypass, Detroit, MI; It’s Burning Up In Here Baby, Kamihira, Philadelphia, PA; Essay inclusion in eponymous book on the occasion of the exhibition, Alex Da Corte, C-A-T Spells Murder, Karma, New York, NY
