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“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

(This quote is inscribed on a paperweight I gave my partner,
Sally Morgan, 21 years ago. It still sits on her desk.)

In the fall of 2001, Sally was working with an art advisor in New York City, and I was fixing up an 18th C. house in Northwest Connecticut. Reeling from the tragedy of September 11th, we were both searching for a way to make meaning and create community. Over the coming months we decided to turn the house’s first floor into an exhibition space and invited a few artists we knew to show their work. In the spring of …