Squeak Meisel The sketchbook is a place that I find essential to many artists’ practice. This practice can vary from a traditional book to a way of working or even to a warm-up habit an artist might do when seeking.…
Author: avantika
An Interview with Travis Townsend
Anne Bujold Anne Bujold (from the highway on her way to Taos, NM) asks Travis Townsend a few questions about his work. After some conversational pleasantries, she jumps right in. Installation view of Vessels of Destiny! Anne Bujold: Tell me…
Basorexia: A Rumination on Unrequited Love
Helen T. Abbot This work attempts to simultaneously undo and re-build ways of loving. It is a contemplation of a specific relationship of unspoken intimacy and it sits with and within the space where language fails to adequately give full expression…
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Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter setting the ________ Behind closed eyes, I walk across the floor. I imagine how its surface subtly changes level, gently rising here—and there, forming a shallow, worn divot underfoot. Toes, or perhaps a kneecap,…
Up and Down and Back Again: (un)doing Our Relationship with Success and Failure
Adam Forrester According to Greek mythology, Sisyphus, the king of Corinth, was punished for cheating death and disrespecting the gods by being forced, or rather compelled, to roll a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down again,…
Reframing Monuments from an Indigenous Perspective
Steph Littlebird You can learn a lot from the objects a culture leaves behind. This concept is the basis for the entire discipline of Art History. Examining cultural products can give us a greater understanding of any group of people…
Te Waimapihi | Te Aro Park Memorial
Kate Te Ao All images from author’s personal archive, Te Waimapihi, Wellington, 2022. Te Waimapihi is a waka. The prow rises up and pushes against the pavement. Courtney Place, rushing to meet it, divides in two and flows past on…
100 Runs, A Pedestal and Transformation
Brian Libby All images by and courtesy the author. For the past ten months, approximately ten times a month, I have been running to the top of an inactive volcano to witness a pedestal without a statue. Over the course…
Thamizh Futurism
Adhavan Sundaramurthy All images courtesy the artist. தேர் திருவிழா (A Tamil Juggernaut that carries the Architectural Past, Present and the Future), 1’4″ X 1’4″ X 1’4″, 2019. There’s a significant absence of consideration as to how our history may…
Psychosomatic Texture Maps and Floorplan Stickers
Jeff Carter The Michael Reese Hospital campus in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood once included eight buildings with known design collaboration by Walter Gropius, built between 1947 and 1959. As the founder of Germany’s Bauhaus school of design (1919-1933), Gropius is widely…