Lisa Teasley is a Los Angeles native, artist and writer. Her solo retrospective show was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, Spring 2019 and her first solo exhibition was at the Watts Towers Art Center curated by John Outterbridge.

Gabriela was from Mobile, Alabama, where Leon’s grandfather was born. They bonded over the seafood, Leon saying he had always wanted to go to learn about his roots, Gabriela laughing at the thought of this sheltered kid from Santa Monica driving down the narrow highway by the Gulf with some curated blues playlist blasting through his dad’s puke green Prius.

The L-shaped room Abedi slept in with his mother smelled like human habits: faint traces of last night’s oud, clean panties air-drying after being washed in the sink, the sickly sweet scent of pink bottle hair cream.