Issue 3 - Searching Searching for the Blue #1, acrylic on paper, 13" x 20" (2020)#2, acrylic on paper, 13" x 20" (2020)#3, acrylic on paper, 13" x 20" (2020)#4, acrylic on paper, 13" x 20" (2020)#5, acrylic on paper, 13" x 20" (2021)#6, acrylic on paper,
Issue 3 - Searching Tracking Your Life A s a boy I spent every day in the South African bushveld apprenticing under some of the greatest Shangaan animal trackers in the world. I was taught to attune to a hidden world of stories and information etched faintly in the earth as
Issue 3 - Searching Cartoons on Searching by Brooke Bourgeois Artist’s Note Brooke is a cartoonist and illustrator who primarily finds inspiration at the intersection of unlikely themes. She is constantly ‘searching’ for jokes that are specifically suited to visual anchors, and this often involves re-imagining historical periods, fairy tale characters, and even
Issue 3 - Searching The Long Now Photos C/O Nowk Choe Daniel Schine Lee’s “Jam and Cook” (a functional karaoke machine + oven) and “Pagoda Go-Go” (an 80s-esque analogue of Heelys) mock the cynical manipulation of trends for profit, while also asking whether art and culture cannot be meaningful despite
Issue 3 - Searching Preschool as a profession of philosophy A few weeks ago I heard a scream and turned my head to see Robert stomping his foot. He and Harry, both around four years old, were standing next to each other. Robert was leaning forward, chest out, holding his arms straight down, fists
Issue 2 - Recovery HOME Chimney Rock (2017) represents said natural rock formation in Morrill County, Nebraska. Silo (2018) depicts a silo from a WWII encampment in Phelps County, Nebraska. Blowing Prairie (2018) shows the
Issue 2 - Recovery Cartoons on Recovery by Brooke Bourgeois Artist’s Note Brooke is an illustrator and cartoonist who aims to create work at the intersection of comedy and current events. Her selection of cartoons on the theme of "Recovery" touches on the exhaustion of change and how very ill-equipped we are in
Issue 2 - Recovery Gold Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author —after Leon Wyczółkowski's painting, “Spring in Gościeradz” i. We speak of art, as we make our trip. We speak against erasure. You thumb through a tattered volume of lesser-known painters as we
Issue 2 - Recovery Selected Prints by Claire Lehnen Water Truck in Chennai (2020) | Oil on paper | 12 x 18 inches“Water Truck in Chennai (2020)” captures the intimacy of women—draped in colorful sarees—joyfully chatting, laughing, and splashing in the water in the hot and humid July air. The scene takes
Issue 2 - Recovery On Time I t’s June 6, 2018, and I’m trying to sleep, but the heart rate monitor is beeping and the CPAP machine is hissing ceaselessly. My daughter, Em, is sleeping in her isolette. A well-deserved rest. She’s been alive for sixty-eight hours,
Issue 2 - Recovery Two Poems by Nina Murray Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author In my great-grandmother's time there was a tool for everything and for every tool—a toolbox hers was not an ill-fit universe—worn yes but orderly in her room I played with
Issue 2 - Recovery Put the girl on the shore Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author Let her alone with the currents to the eager tide’s, pull of ebb and gift of flow to prayers of driftwood and seaweed notes. Leave her to the lash of marram,
Issue 2 - Recovery Dawn in a Grove Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author As light reenters the forest space: a slow, steady rousing to consciousness. The thin liquid of night stirs, lifting. Silence, the stately forms of trees. The low ferns flutter slightly, wafting skyward,
Issue 2 - Recovery Ça va me changer (This is going to change me) (2018) Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 48 inches Artist’s Note "Ça va me changer" is the second painting in a string of three that, together, form the Ça Series. The French utterance “ça” is multifaceted in its use: a pronoun, an interjection, and a
Issue 1 - Transition I consider a chestnut Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author There is a project for the sun. The sun Must bear no name, gold flourisher, but be In the difficulty of what it is to be. —Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme
Issue 1 - Transition Drawing from the Music of Benjamin Britten I think in pictures. Like a single seed that eventually forms an arbor, this particular trait has determined the entire infrastructure of my practice as an artist and has continued to shape my life in many other ways. Hopeless with verbal directions, I am
Issue 1 - Transition Winter Garden After Rain (2020) Ink on paper | 18 x 12 inches Artist’s Note This painting depicts the change of season in a cold room after a cold winter. I painted it at a time when I did not know what was next, just that I would be
Issue 1 - Transition Two Maidens (2020) Mixed media collage on canvas | 36 x 24 inches Artist’s Note In my final year of college, a professor prompted me to re-imagine an image from the school’s archives. I was enthralled by the idea of translating a piece of art into
Issue 1 - Transition Cartoons on Transition by Brooke Bourgeois Artist’s Note When the tropes of time before COVID-19 went into hibernation, Brooke shifted to mining the strangeness of the now-hackneyed ‘new normal’ for cartoon inspiration. She looks to draw connections between common experience and stories in the cultural cannon, ranging from the
Issue 1 - Transition Rounding Error Your browser does not support the audio element. Reading by the author There's a quiet power to those I saw Jesus in my toast stories. Stunned devotees posing alongside burnt bread all holy and humorless. To think, one morning they awoke and willed their
Issue 1 - Transition Un coup de pouce (2020) Paper, adhesive | 8 x 12 inches Artist’s Note The French expression un coup de pouce conjures a tender force: the shock of a blow, un coup, in concert with the inner digit of a human hand, un pouce. Its uncanny charm brims with
Issue 0 - Liminal Space padmasana (attempt) The text scrawled into this piece reads "many things are so uncertain all at once so i imagine lotuses growing like vines all over my field of vision & field of anxiety but padmasana is not coming easily because of the aforementioned quantities of variables so i drew this instead—an anxiety-filled
Issue 0 - Liminal Space The Buffalo Commons There’s a spot by my house, maybe ten miles or so north, where the late summer’s sunflowers roll on for acres till the pine-covered hills—the Black Hills of South Dakota—rise to mark a ragged horizon. I drive up there sometimes, just to sit among the slightly drooping flowers, watch the sky, and
Issue 0 - Liminal Space National Kite Festival We have made the wrong mistakes. I run into a landscape of kites held by hundreds of invisible hands. From a distance, their flight makes no sound and what’s meant to move keeps still, carries words from me.The crowd finds space for one another, eyes pinned to the sky, empty no longer. Against the
Issue 0 - Liminal Space Field Notes From The In-Between The spring the coronavirus hit I would sit. Next to my window with a cup of green teaTrying to be mindful, self-consciously watching the firstLeaves on the six saplings outside of my windowExpanding and multiplying by the dayAs the morning sun leapt over the horizon,Lighting up the field like a
