This essay is a meditation on Chloë Engel and Anna Kroll’s collaborative imagination practice, and was first printed as an exhibition catalogue accompanying Anna Kroll’s MFA show at the University of Maryland. It was later published by The Brooklyn Rail in their September 2023 issue. Read a short excerpt below, and the full essay on The Brooklyn Rail’s website.

In The Room, we enter a realm of impossibility. Ears can catch fire, legs can be swings, and I can be a moth, crying at the funeral of a praying mantis. We build The Room ourselves. In it, impossible things become possible. We announce observations, movements, sensations, and decisions to each other. What is said is possible, plausible, done.