It speaks to the things that aren’t said. There’s a story that’s not being told, which adds a layer of interest to the pieces
Featured Artist: Angie Renfro
November Issue, 2022
A collection of all the articles we published last month for those who like their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Necropolis, a film by Marc Reed
Most of my videos are of lost and forgotten places, and while visiting these places I have often pondered the people that once inhabited them. Who were they…where are they? To a large extent they are here. These are the inhabitants of my “drowned worlds.”
Quick and Flupke (and why I love Tintin)
There’s a lovely lightness to the strips, a freedom, but as with all the best comic strips, (or all my favorite) underneath the lightness is a depth of honesty and humanity.
Gabriela Domville: Preserve Collection
Gabriela Dombille’s thought-provoking Preserve Collection asks questions about our relationship to nature and about our often-deadly fascination with the mechanics of beauty and of life itself.
Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village
On one level, Bottle Village was, literally, a constructive approach to transforming discard and sorrow into something more.
Featured Artist: Kent Ambler
“I find myself working from a combination of observation, memory, and intuition.”
Sea Creatures Stared at Us and We Stared Back at Them
With its mix of musical styles, languages, accents, and voices, the album is a perfect tribute to the witty and self-deprecating, pretty and noisy, relatable and strange, hopefully despondent music of Jeffrey Lewis.
You cannot see them anymore, They are not there
So I am content to draw, each drawing a provocation, another layer in an ongoing process of poking and prodding at notions of place and landscape and in that sense I am content to let things drift.
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colors and Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium
There’s so much in life that we can’t capture in words or pictures: everything is shifting, changing, and with more hues, values and shades than our eyes can see, more notes than our ears can hear, more subtleties than our hearts can feel or our minds define. But I love that we still try.
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