Ripple Fang's "Extraordinary Ability"

Ripple Fang's "Extraordinary Ability"—Why a Chinese Artist Needs Fly-by-Night Galleries, Sketchy Lawyers, and Psychics to Stay in Seattleby Jen GravesAfter drawing the gold curtain closed, the psychic asks her client's name, birth date, and wish. Ripple Fang. August 2, 1992. "I want," Ripple says, "a visa."Pause. The psychic searches Ripple's face and says, "You are in the darkness."Yes, that's why Ripple went to the psychic in the first place. Her student visa runs out in August, but she