It started as a hare-brained scheme - let's go to Vegas! - which rapidly got down-sized, until we finally decided to take the bus to Des Moines instead.
Iowa City in early November was cold, dark, snowing and gloomy. At the tail end of a nearly three-month-long residency, my friend Santiago and I were going stir-crazy in our hotel rooms which doubled as work studios.
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