The Convergences Contest
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To celebrate the release of Lawrence Weschler’s Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, we’ve launched an extravagant contest: A Convergence of Convergences. Submit your own convergence—an unlikely, striking pair of images, along with a paragraph or three exploring the deeper resonances. The best contributions will be posted on the site, along with responding commentary from Weschler. Please send your submissions to everything@mcsweeneys.net—if your images are attachments (rather than links), please keep them under 1 megabyte.
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Carnival of Convergences No. 5.
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Widow’s Peaks.
By Chris Reeves
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Targeting.
By Mia McIver
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Stills from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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Stills from a Chevy commercial
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Congestion
and Transcendence.
By Brent Holland’s
Mariner High School
art class
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Big Round Tiers.
By Brent Holland’s
Mariner High School
art class
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Ring-a-ding-ding.
By Lawrence Weschler
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Johannes Vermeer, Officer and Laughing Girl (c. 1655–60)

Dennis Oppenheim, Attempt to Raise Hell (1974)
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Aphrodite Hanks.
By Jimmy Chen
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On the left, a still from Splash (1984);
on the right, a still from Cast Away (2000)
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Pet Carriers.
By Jamie Johansson
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Lady With an Ermine (c. 1483–90) by Leonardo da Vinci

Lady With a Dog by a paparazzo
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Head Games.
By Lauren Redniss
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Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (1533)
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Anonymous after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm,
The French Lady in London, or the Head Dress
for the Year 1771 (1771)
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SUGGESTED READS
The Convergences Contest: Carnival of Convergencesby Adam Cloe, Alan Prather, Aryeh Cohen-Wade, David Ng, Eric Meltzger, Greg Van Laningham, Jake Landis, John Raub, Julian Gallo, Matthew Gruenberg, Michael Rose and Rusty Lee (9/10/2006)
The Convergences Contest: Another Carnival of Convergencesby Andrea Ford, Ariel S. Winter, Jimmy Chen, Kevin Deutsch, Manuel Gonzales and Robert Joseph Carreon (10/28/2006)
The Convergences Contest: Carnival of Convergences No. 3by Bill Mech, Bradley Campbell, Guillermo Núñez, Helen Selonick, Lauren Redniss and Matt Haber (1/17/2007)