Natasha Chaykowski All images by and courtesy the artist. In this age of biomedical ingenuity, which sees the wholesale embrace of cosmetic procedures staving off bodily wear-and-tear and soaring (Western) life expectancy thanks to remarkable feats in engineering and healthcare,…
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‘Never Perfect, Never Done, Never Resolved’: An Interview with Karl Burkheimer
Joshua West Smith All images by the artist. To make is a difficult thing. To know why you make is sometimes equally as hard. And to share your passion for making and to help others in their personal creative journeys…
Peripheral Ruin: An Interview with Heidi Schwegler
Avantika Bawa Avantika Bawa: How did you get interested in ruins? Heidi Schwegler: In life, I’m compelled by the ruin. In the studio, I’m compelled to ruin things. In 2009, after eleven years spent teaching fulltime in Portland, Oregon, I…
Making Time: A Conversation on Aging Film Costumes
Clare Wilkinson All images courtesy Anthea Mallinson. A critical pre-production function in contemporary drama, fantasy and historical films is the deliberate, and deliberative, aging and breakdown of costumes. The special category of breakdown artists who perform this task often come…