All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
February Issue, 2024
Alexandria, The End of the Affair
“I sit on the wall and watch a fisherman wrangle his net; the sea is dark and a little choppy, and I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness.”
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.
Cones
“The cones began to be symbolic surrogates for human presence … or absence. Their serendipitous placement and interaction in their surroundings was somewhat surreal.”
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
In Search of a Smile
I was in the partial state of not knowing if I was awake or still dreaming; it had been another fitful uncomfortable night, mostly involving a donkey braying and the snores and […]
The Eye of the Needle
The microminiatures of Hagp Sandaldijian, from The Museum of Jurassic Theology
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.”
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