My goal is to read solely Afro-kwea books for at least the next year. Aside from my anger at the dismissal of African lives elsewhere, this ambition was also motivated by a new wave of homophobia that has spread across the continent … My goal is to counter this intolerance by doing my bit to increase our visibility.
Objets trouvés in various stages of decomposition are transformed — by design, by vision, by respect — into objects of great beauty.
“Every little painting is just an attempt to capture a feeling.” An interview with Toby Rosenbloom
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpipes’ tidings as an issue.
A Magpies’ Museum of Lost Creations.
“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
A brief history of bootleg records printed on salvaged X-rays. “It’s easy to imagine a yearning, a dreaming and a longing for what you’ve been repressively denied. The forbidden often has an added excitement, an added expectation and ultimately, an added value.”
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.
The backbone of this mix tape is songs on the subject of the love that makes us glow together with the light we all carry, so that we can keep out the darkness of ignorance, want, and cruelty.
“Don’t make her witty, which would be a mistake. She is nothing but flesh, but flesh in all of its beauty. And, I repeat, a good-natured girl.”
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