Lynn Lawrence // The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. — Marcus Tullius Cicero, “Orator”[1] Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing. —Henri Cartier-Bresson, “The Mind’s Eye” Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of the Future” The first…
Category: Arts and Creativity
His Wife (No. 8847)
Jonathan Chou // His Wife (No. 8847) History from wife. The water came in through painted rain pipes. It was not paint but a daub of lard on his wife’s dress. She didn’t remove it after all.1 Things didn’t go smoothly. Furniture had to be wiped off. Elix. Iron Phos. Quin. & Strych. Smash the…
Why We Tell Stories
Nitya Rajeshuni // “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one…
Ode on a Greek Letter
April Sharp // The fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet is currently in the spotlight, but for all the wrong reasons. On November 26th, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern and gave it the label Omicron. The use of the Greek alphabet to label variants…
The space in-between
Dr Jac Saorsa, Artist-in-Residence// My PhD in creative writing consitutes an exploration, through both conventional and visual language, of the presence and immutability of death. My subjects are the Living: patients in the hopsital with terminal cancer, and the Dead: cadavers I carefully dissect in a creative and subjective approach to the mysteries of individual…
The Long Read: Spaces of psychosis and poetics in Tove Ditlevsen’s novel “The Faces”
Anders Juhl Rasmussen // In this article, my aim is to investigate how space and place have a special significance for the protagonist of The Faces, an autobiographical novel by Danish author Tove Ditlevsen published in 1968. The Faces describes a psychotic attack and subsequent recovery at a hospital. My argument is that Ditlevsen’s description…
Evening, Myocardial Infarction
Kate Bolton Bonnici // Of what can be felt: how the heart dwells At earth’s door, which is the gate of light Lowering leafèd veils in sequence. Slight Scent traces the familiar and the spell- Bound. What’s not dreamed? A hart swells Near to bursting at dusk’s blood birth: bright Sidereal dust, ventricle touched, twice-sight…
A Girl and a Neem Tree: Identity and the Belonging of Not Belonging
Nitya Rajeshuni // “[H Mart is] a beautiful, holy place. A cafeteria full of people from all over the world who have been displaced in a foreign country, each with a different history. Where did they come from and how far did they travel? Why are they all here? To find the galangal no American…
Blue Death
Dr Jac Saorsa, Artist-in-Residence// Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness, even where Persephone goes… (extract from Bavarian Gentians, D.H. Lawrence) For Wassily Kandinsky, the…
“Making the Poem Physical”: A Talk With Kamil Guenatri, A Disabled Performance Artist
Pauline Picot // Kamil Guenatri is a performance artist. He first started working as a computer engineer before changing his course entirely at the age of 25, when he decided to practice performance art. Since 2010, he has been creating and presenting his work in France and abroad.
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