All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
February Issue, 2024
Inside the Camera Obscura: An Interview with Michele FariNelly
“It’s art to cook, garden, dance, sing, play an instrument, and compose music. It’s art to create clothes from a piece of fabric or to “see” a piece of furniture within a pile of wood. If we have the chance to imprint our stylistic signature in what we do, we are present in the works produced, despite our absence.”
Drawing with Light: An Interview with Ralf Jacobs
There are patterns all around us that we recognize in Jacobs’ work. Similarly, with music, we respond to sound waves, we can’t see them but they affect our emotions. Looking at Jacobs’ drawings, it feels that he’s captured something no one else has: A new way of looking at something that we always see but don’t always notice.
To Be a Part of This World: An Interview With Toby Rosenbloom
“Every little painting is just an attempt to capture a feeling.” An interview with Toby Rosenbloom
All I Had to Do Was Listen: An Interview with Torsten Richter
“Sometimes I’m following the light. Sometimes I’m following the clouds. And sometimes I’m looking for something I do not know beforehand.” An interview with Torsten Richter
I Am Because You Are: An Interview with Tracy Jackson
Tracy Jackson’s work is full of questions: asked, pondered, answered, and asked again. A fine teeming network of ideas and philosophy ties the images together: ideas about what it means to interact with other humans and with the natural world around us, and about the transformative power of compassion, community, nonconformity, and creativity.
Gerald Slota: Frenzy
The impact of Gerald Slota’s vivid and teeming images is immediate and arresting. They stop you in your tracks with their bright seeming-chaos. But the more you take time with them, the […]
Moments of Anarchy: An Interview With Mark Tamer
“I embrace the accidents and errors as they not only remind us how vulnerable and delicate we are, they can often show us something new. It is at the point of breakdown that the medium begins to reveal itself. Through glitches and mistakes we get to see the base elements, the very construction of the material that creates those illusions of reality, the apparatus of photography itself.”
Everything is Connected: An Interview with Anouk Rugueu
“My deepest self is connected to people and creatures that I will never meet or see. I think that each separate part knows and carries the whole in a way that is not yet accessible to our mental understanding.” An interview with the remarkable Anouk Rugueu
An Interview with Ellen Wallenstein
“For me, photographs are always about time, always about the past, as soon as they are made. So they are about preserving life, or an illusion thereof — people, places, parties, events, celebrations, and even death.”
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