Enter The Yarniverse With The Ladies Fancywork Society: Q+A with the artists behind “Midge the Swamp MOMster” — an installation at Meow Wolf Denver’s Convergence Station. By Quinn Fati Published Issue 097, January 2022 As they tell it, Ladies Fancywork Society was created accidentally by a mad scientist dipping cosmic yarn into a petri dish. […]
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Are You Dead To The World Or Just Plain Dead? By Brian Polk Art By Jason White Published Issue 097, January 2022 Do you feel like there are times in your life when no one notices your existence? You say words, have feelings, complete projects on time and under budget at work, and no one
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URSUS MARITIMUS ENORMIS By Austin Parkhill Published Issue 097, January 2022 URSUS MARITIMUS ENORMIS is part of the MEGAfauna series which considers the way we as people interact with the natural environment, utilizing the arctic villages of Alaska as backdrop. This is a place I have lived amongst beasts. By confronting mega-sized arctic wildlife in local
The Voice of Silence By Maggie D. Fedorov Art by Michael McKenney Published Issue 097, January 2022 I awake with a start to the slamming of a door. A quick glance around the room reminds me that I had left the window open as I slept. The cat looks at me with an expression that
Pipe Dreams By Steve Haney Published Issue 097, January 2022 Steve Haney — aka Visions Collage — is a visual collage artist and a percussionist for Jungle Fire, a Los Angeles-based TropiFunk juggernaut that digs deep into Afro/Latin Funk with an approach that is authentic and highly explosive. Check out Steve’s last Birdy install, Glide,
The Temple of Duma Veil By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 097, January 2022 When the mages finished, Haverna was a blazing ruin. It had been the greatest city on the continent, home to a million souls. In the bazaar, merchants had hawked everything from steel spearheads to aromatic spices, women in
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 096, December 2021 Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (2021) The collected words of Winfred Rembert by Erin I. Kelly captures the heart wrenching journey of a young man from a field
Published Issue 096, December 2021 This is an excerpt from a blog interview with Denver-based designer, Kelly O’Connell, creator of Kind & Funny. Kind & Funny believes in the power of kindness, and not just kindness as individual gestures, but as an integral part of making the world a better place for everyone. They fuse
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Plastic, Pizza, and Positivity with Everything Is Terrible! By Dave Jasmon Published Issue 096, December 2021 The L.A.-based collective created Pizza Pals Playzone, a nostalgia-sauced labor of love for Convergence Station. “How am I supposed to make a suit jacket for a breadstick?” Anna Bihari found herself asking this absurd, yet reasonable question while working
Winter 2021 By Helena Pneuma Kaeris Published Issue 096, December 2021 Heavy we sit; tossed by the waves The night cries; our hearts are wide Wherever does this lead We’ve floated so far; through chimeras, shadows My lonely heart Who will be there on the other side Where our maddened minds shatter to mist Where