Something Personal
Gioncarlo ValentineLetters on grief, life, love, aspiration, art and the artist's journey.
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Alphabet People
A hill I used to walk up after school, Baltimore, MD 2024
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I was admittedly nervous before my talk at ICP a few weeks ago; public speaking is not my milieu. I get so anxious and that reduces me in ways I don’t much enjoy and won’t...
ICP: Gioncarlo Valentine and Casey Gerald
Mikey, Baltimore, MD, 2017
Hello again,
I hope this small letter finds you feeling mighty and empowered. I write to you from a sun-drenched corner of a new cafe, on a quaint street in Northern Philadelphia. My favorite season is upon us a...
To S
Monday, June 16, 2025
3:29am
S,
I’ve stopped photographing myself again. I fear I’m disappearing. After that second Mounjaro shot the self-portraits lost their luster, but so did the camera. A sat across from me today, on a damp, sagging...
sweet and tender things
Nic, Los Angeles, CA 2023
I had a beautiful Black man enthusiastically read a section of Moby Dick to me the other night, on Facetime, as he skulked cartoonishly to the top of a gorgeous spiral staircase. He read through the section fr...
Fire Drill
On top of the Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, California, 2021
Have you ever seen a dog chained up and restrained but fighting ravenously to be free? Inelegant strings of saliva dangling from its mouth, its face a rictus mound of slobbering,...
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