Kim Salac

Kim Salac
Media Staff

Kim is currently an Aunspaugh Fellow with UVA's Department of Art. In their free time, they love watching Moonlight director commentaries or films in general, being a mediocre cook, and exploring fashion. As a queer artist of color, their work often reflects a desire to unpack the spaces we live in and the identities we hold close as a means to push for social justice. Their portfolio can be found at kimsalac.com

 

 

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an house on fire against a dark, black background

For Lease

I drive, gripping my steering wheel, towering electric poles zooming by like lanky giants.

Kim Salac
a dark hallway with orange accents

Myopia

This film employs the act of doing laundry, in its habitual, cyclical mundaneness, to reflect a deep longing for a cultural heritage under the strain of constant, quiet erasure.

Kim Salac
a bright blue outline of a body falling downward on a background of red swirls

Whose permission are you waiting for?

“Why do you think you still have to stay there, after everything that’s happened?” my best friend whispers, her concern ringing out in this childhood bedroom. Nestling my head into the crook of my arm, I struggle to open my eyes, puffy and bloodshot from the evening.

Kim Salac
astronaut in space

Adrift

Over black, a distant melody breaks through: the SOUND of waves crashing on a shore, an undulating rumbling in the distance...

INT. A CRAMPED, DECREPIT SPACECRAFT - NIGHT

Kim Salac

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And so, my mornings are not full of pain and hurt, just ache. 

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Curls

My mother calls to me, her feet pounding in the field, the earthworms writhing beneath me with each step that sends the ground thundering

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I have a confession to make. 

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good enough ii

two cultured,
my mind cluttered,
i struggle,
attempt to juggle. 

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image of reflected faces

Self-Portrait

I can’t bear
To draw self-portraits of myself.
I don’t trust mirrors
And I don’t trust my eyes.

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a person with their head on folded arms

Here is What I Did

Here is what I did when I first got here: I meticulously cleaned my apartment.

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Letter from the editor for the final issue of the 2021-22 academic year.

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“Maybe I’m biased because I don’t like him.”

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