Brittany Miller

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Poet Courtney Bush in conversation with Painter Brittany Miller

“I was just the woman seeing the messages in garbage at that point.”

Brittany Miller. <em>Every Book is About the Same Thing</em>, 2022. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)

Brittany Miller. Every Book is About the Same Thing, 2022. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)

I love the painter Brittany Miller. I love her as a painter. I love her as a person. I love her as a thinker and a reader and a teacher, which is the context in which I met her. In one meeting with my bosses at the Manhattan preschool where we worked, I said that my relationship with my co-teacher Brittany was complicated in that… My bosses finished my sentence, “You are hopelessly in love with one another?” Yes, that was the complication.

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