My aim is to be shameless

It is rarely my result.

Photo: Andrew Neel

As 2023 comes to a close, I’m resharing this essay from the archives. It’s been a year since it was first published and, re-reading it, I realized that I feel less shame talking about my work these days. I think that is in part because so much of the writing I’ve been doing here has touched on shame from various angles, whether it’s cu…