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Sylvanus is a Brooklyn-based exemplar of human agency, who occasionally writes in the third person. Other times, I don't.
CURATORS
Supposing the art world is a Portuguese man o' war—a sublimely colored and venomous colony of specialized polyps living in concert—curators would be the gastrozooids, responsible for supplying the colony with nutrients.
DEALERS
Continuing until the comparison is beached and desiccated: art dealers are the dactylzooids, the defending, potentially paralyzing tentacles capable of excruciating pain.
CRITICS
Art critics are the pneumatophore, the gas-filled bladder that gives the creatures their name (supposedly the man 'o war resembles a type of 18th century Portuguese frigate by the same name).
PATRONS
"Patrons" are the man-of-war fish, a symbiotic organism that feeds on the man o' war's regenerative tentacles while acting as a lure for larger prey. Patrons (without scare quotes) are ocean currents directing the flow of men o' war and other plankton, while under the direction of greater physical forces like wind, temperature, and salinity.
COLLABORATORS
Supposing the art world is a … collaborators are the gonozooids, the procreative polyps that ensure future colonies in their coupling.
Dear Gonozooids,
It's the ocean writing, on the lookout for talent, for dialogue, fellowship, and mutual support. For those seeking to work more closely with Sylvanusylvania, LLC, the following positions are currently available:
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