There’s something of the fever dream in Gerald Slota’s videos. They hit you with their strange dream logic, a barrage of images, movement, songs. But like most dreams, they linger in your memory. We were grateful for a chance to ask Gerald Slota a few questions about his videos.
Andrew Robinson discusses the enduring legacy of Satyajit Ray, and tells the story of the alien movie that never got made and its striking similarities to a very familiar film.
Alice Courtright’s poem Threshold, inspired by Ugo Rondinone’s sculpture the sun and the moon, is balanced on the edge of so many things … night and day, memory and hope, wonder and knowledge, confusion and understanding. It captures a moment in her life and in the world.
An interview with remarkable photographer Faraz Ravi.
Arthur Davis shares his reflections on some of Matsuo Basho’s summer poems.
“I deciphered the occasional splash of graffiti: alongside youthful declarations of love and football were vague revolutionary slogans: “Freedom is a Right”, “Liberty”, and “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
“Ellen Wallenstein found solace and strength in her art, continuing to create cyanotypes—ethereal blue shadow-grams on cloth—each sunny day,”
Some works from Calef Brown’s suite of poems in which the first words or lines are from traditional nursery rhymes, then they go off in different directions. Beautifully illustrated by Leo Espinosa.
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
“The characters of man’s heart are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.”
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