Credit: KELLY O
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  • KELLY O

DOESN’T MIND:
If you know his phone number is 206-ODDBALL.
WAS:
Mugged twice for his Leica camera.
KNOWS:
Where the morels are.
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  • KELLY O

ONCE PLACED AN AD THAT SAID:
“Black woman willing to make your favorite meal. You bring the ingredients. I prepare. Come hungry.”
BELIEVES IN
Beauty.
DRAWS
Like a mother, but you wouldn’t know it.
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  • KELLY O

TOOK:
Her first real art class at Michael’s craft store.
USED TO:
Paint piles of rotting flesh in the desert.
WONDERS ABOUT:
How things happen in your brain versus your body.
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Read about all fifteen of the 2014 Genius Award nominees here.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...