PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 WORDS BY CLAIRE MILBRATH PORTRAIT BY JONNY NEGRON Catherine the Great was rumoured to have killed her own husband, and reportedly traded lovers like cards. She was a German Princess of the 18th century, and a sovereign of Russia for thirty-four…
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INTERVIEW BY DARBY MILBRATH Naturally, I wanted to sit down and talk to Katie Lyle as we’re both female painters from Victoria, working in Toronto, and interested in representations of the female figure in motion. She toils away at portraiture painting, building layer upon layer…
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Editorial featuring designer Matthew Adams Dolan. Photos by Kevin Buitrago and styling by Marcus Cuffie
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Justine Rivas makes magical paintings that come from magical thinking. To become an artist she learned the ideologies spoken between standard lines from trusted sources as other self-truths were sparkling in her proximity. Studying the choreography of her sociocultural context and…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Garbage and ghosts are both lonely. Emerging from the trash of porn culture, Florencia Escudero’s sculptures haunt a honeymoon suite, their hollowed-out contours suggestive phantasms, flirting with packaged and plastic notions of hot women and hetero coupledom, but these effigies are…
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Plaza by Camille Jodoin-Eng Gladstone Art Hut, February 23-26th, 2017 Interview by Darby Milbrath Video by Brittany Shepherd I like to think about the transitionary nature of a space. This space was a cafe once. Then it was hollowed out and empty, waiting to become a…
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PHOTOS BY SHELBY FENLON STYLING BY AMANDA LEE SHIRREFFS Model: Henriette @ Seen Agency Clothing: 1 bustier: borrowed from Amanda’s Aunt / pants: House of Vintage / shoes: Value Village 2 bodysuit: Chosen Vintage 3 ‘shoes’: Shelby Fenlon / dress: Chosen Vintage 4 sweatshirt: Henriette’s…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 TEXT BY ZOE KOKE “Where do we get the energy to fight, where are the flowers?” is a part of the spoken voiceover for Amalia Ulman’s Powerpoint presentation, for her most recent performance, Privilege. I am feeling spacey from a 60…
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“Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state” -Michel de Certeau, The Invention of Everyday Life, 1990. The scale of Tess Roby’s large-format…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Interview & styling by Nafisa Kaptownwala Photography by Arvida Byström Wardrobe from 69us I was first introduced to Evelyn Mason’s music through her project Bobo Eyes, which she worked on alongside Regular Fantasy’s Olivia Meek. The two made the sweetest electronic/pop/R&B,…
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“How can one wish to continue existing as an embodiment of the past, while simultaneously wishing the past never happened?” “In Puerto Rico, they sampled some twenty thousand people and found that a large portion of their DNA consisted of Native American ancestry, likely…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 An engraving on an ancient Mesopotamian cylinder seal depicts a UFO landing on Earth. A Dogü figurine dated 1000 BCE looks suspiciously similar to our modern concept of an extraterrestrial visitor. There are several objects on the planet that support a…
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Photo : Monika Mogi Art Direction: Marginal Press Models : Naoki, Chico, Anna SHOP THE LOOK HERE! Like what you see?! Shop the…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 INTERVIEW BY JESSICA CANJE PHOTOS BY VULGARTEEN One day LA Timpa came to a fork in the road and saw a white-haired, purple-eyed unicorn beside a tall standing tree. “Which road should I take?” he asked. “Where do you want to…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 15 INTERVIEW & PHOTOS BY MONIKA MOGI STYLING BY CHRISTINE LAI CO-STARRING YUKA MIZUHARA HAIR & MAKE-UP BY KANAKO YOSHIDA I first met Kiko when we shot the cover for a Japanese magazine three years ago. For the Editorial, we wanted to…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 15 BY CHAR ESME
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 15 WRITTEN BY WHITNEY MALLETT & ANGELINA DREEM From Santa Fe to Seoul, members from society wake, reaching for their interconnected devices, those glowing orbs that separate man from beast. We are always connected but too often there is a disconnect. Not…
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Brad Phillips’ photorealistic and text-based paintings are autobiographical, figuring his wife in intimate moments, or depicting various phrases that might amuse or terrify him. These are confessional works, expressing dread, absurdity and the complexity of love and domesticity. In turns provocative and erotic, or dad-jokey and…
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