Capitol Hill, Seattle, 1994-95

Portrait of the artist as a truly terrible fencer

The question was asked: “You told me you used to fence. Would you tell us about it?”

For about three months in 1995, I attempted to learn how to fence, courtesy of the Seattle edition of The Learning Annex. But just as I started to get the hang of it—just as I started to think that maybe, somehow, with a lot of practice I might get good—I stopped.