I Stole a Book From My Feminist Idol

Shortly after filmmaker Agnès Varda died, I went to Paris to learn from her life — and take a piece of it home with me

Karen Frances Eng
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readJul 4, 2019

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Agnès Varda’s grave in Montparnasse Cemetery, where she is buried with her husband, Jacques Demy. Photos: Karen Frances Eng

We would see the gleaner, tramping along
gathering the relics
of that which is falling behind the reaper.
— Joachim du Bellay (from The Gleaners and I by Agnes Varda)

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Karen Frances Eng
Human Parts

organic unidirectional time machine // writer + artist // aka oculardelusion // karenfranceseng.com