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Julio César Morales is an artist
and curator at the museum here.

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I don't know if he's
here this evening.

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Do you know him, Tyler?

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Yeah.

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He's an extraordinary
artist and curator.

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He, with another curator
named Xiaoyu Weng,

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organized an event called Soul
Mining that featured artists

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engaging with Asians throughout
the Americas and specifically

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Latin America.

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And he included this poem,
Chino, in the museum exhibit.

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It started out at
ASU, and then it

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went to the Vincent Price Museum
in Los Angeles and East LA.

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"Chino"

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The olla knocked with steam.

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The masa cooked.

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She said her eyes are china.

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The vowel switched on an aura, a
shine that sheens the threshold.

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The vowel was spell:

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An I that might we,

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An I that echoes how
we're seen and see.

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Eyedentity.

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Ay Dios, she exclaimed,
surrounded by photos--

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Niños y nietos--

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Where I am the only chino.

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How might I see through
my family's eyes--

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an owl's eyes in ojos

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And one in its lid
turned sideways 目--

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I wondered with her at the table

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Where we placed one olive--

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ojo negro-- in each hoja,

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That worn folio for
field corn's field notes.

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What does that dark eye
in the ear's husk see?

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