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Katie Kasben

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  • Portrait of Kasben reading "Relativity" by Albert Einstein and holding a champagne flute, with a bottle of champagne being poured from outside the photograph's scope. She states the significance of these items being, "My personality has a plethora of paradoxes- not that Einstein wouldn't like champagne- he would just be too busy to drink it." She moved to Asheville while in high school, without choice, but stays because it is the first place she had roots. The mountains, once claustrophobic, are comforting to her.