Broken Sidewalks
Images T.W. Selvey Images T.W. Selvey

Broken Sidewalks

Images

The series is entitled Broken Sidewalks. I used written text (from a poem I wrote) and manipulated images as the basis for creating these digital artworks.

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Practising a Sustainable Life: An Interview with Sara Rodrigues
Future World(s) Mariana Lemos Future World(s) Mariana Lemos

Practising a Sustainable Life: An Interview with Sara Rodrigues

Future World(s)

After many years of urban living, the Portuguese artist Sara Rodrigues, and her partner, Rodrigo B. Camacho, moved from London to the rural area of Cabeceiras de Basto in Portugal, to start a new life. The pair are realising a dream from the ground up with their bare hands: a zero waste, self-sustainable home. The name of this project is Landra.

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Summer of the Cicadas
Fiction Chelsea Catherine Fiction Chelsea Catherine

Summer of the Cicadas

Fiction - Project Jupiter

As the road rises in elevation, the air grows cooler. I keep going until the river narrows with boulders. Sweat sticks to my skin as I slow and pull over on the side of the road. I stash the bike amongst some bushes and climb down the encampment to the water bed. 

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Cystisus Scoparius
Images Rie Blake Marsden Images Rie Blake Marsden

Cystisus Scoparius

Images

In my artwork, I have focused mostly on the ideations of a refined image. I sought to extend the drying time of photographs. To allow the ink to hold traces of the conditions within which the works were placed. I removed the medium of paper from the process, instead, printing directly onto aluminium.

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Surreal-Absurd Sampler Zachary Schomburg
Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock

Surreal-Absurd Sampler Zachary Schomburg

Surreal-Absurd - Project Jupiter

Some of the most exciting poetry and hybrid work being written today is absurdist/surrealist and often minimalist. Every other Monday, I will feature an absurdist/surrealist writer to tickle your fancies. First up, we have Zachary Schomburg. A selection of absurdist/surrealist prose poems from his book Fjords Vol.2. Forthcoming from Black Ocean in May 2021.

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Places that hum
Future World(s) Laura Plant Future World(s) Laura Plant

Places that hum

Future World(s)

A villa on the Mediterranean coast is built in 1929, designed by architect Eileen Gray as a refuge for herself and her lover. She encodes their intertwined initials into the name of the building — the house from its foundations up is inscribed with love. After the couple separate, she watches the building fall into disrepair: inside unwanted murals are painted while from outside bullets perforate its skin. Now as the building undergoes restoration, they channel Eileen’s phantasm - her ideas and her intuitions. Her desire to design a “dwelling as a living organism” invoked to bring life again to its bones.

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Mercurius in Conversation with SJ Fowler
Poetry of Life Mercurius Poetry of Life Mercurius

Mercurius in Conversation with SJ Fowler

Poetry of Life

Thomas Helm and SJ Fowler discuss the contemporary avantgarde literary scene in Europe, SJ Fowler’s own works, the limits of lyric poetry and Romantic ego-worship in an age of ecological collapse and spiralling inequalities, the split between the traditional and the avantgarde, where the current generation is headed, among other things…

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March is When the Blackbirds Build their Nests
Poetry of Life, Images Julia Febrer Bausa Poetry of Life, Images Julia Febrer Bausa

March is When the Blackbirds Build their Nests

Poetry of Life - Images

Even in the winter it is possible to hear blackbirds singing (their song intensifies from January onward). They enjoy singing when the Sun is close to the horizon. Also on days with little rain. Their singing, however, follows a different pattern in cities. The lighting and traffic makes them sing even earlier in the morning, and sometimes all night long. We give them neither darkness nor silence.

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