“The cones began to be symbolic surrogates for human presence … or absence. Their serendipitous placement and interaction in their surroundings was somewhat surreal.”
Cones
My Afro-kwea diary: #1
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.
Rotten Luck
Objets trouvés in various stages of decomposition are transformed — by design, by vision, by respect — into objects of great beauty.
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
December Issue, 2023
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.
Letter From the Editor, December: Museum of Lost Creations
A Magpies’ Museum of Lost Creations.
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
Musical X-Rays: A Story of Improvisation and Rebellion
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.”
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.
Magpies Mix Tape: Sweet Songs for Troubled Times
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.
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