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It was a sweltering summer in 1990 when I arrived in Providence for the transfer intensive at Rhode Island School of Design . I had landed in the United States only two days earlier. My English was fragile; my nerves were not. The Waterman Building sat on a steep slope, its late-19th-century bones wrapped in ornamental ironwork and flooded with light from high skylights. The interior felt almost steampunk — an industrial cathedral to drawing. The studio reminded me of photogr