Things
The Consuming Power of Hunger and Desire
“As a young woman, I was rarely in control of my body or my mind. I had hungers like snakes wildly contorting from my head.”
Is This Device That Stores a Heartbeat an Authentic Way to Memorialize Someone?
Platforms like Facebook already act as mediums between the living and deceased.
The Male Gaze: Objectification in the Narrative World
“We have become so good at seeing our environment—our planet and the people upon it—as a rolling scroll of film.”
Capture This: How We Live Away From the Lens
I was embarrassed each time I got out my camera.
A Brief Feminist Exploration of the Bicycle
Susan B. Anthony once said, “I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world.”
The Colonizer’s Archive is a Crooked Finger: A Photo Essay
“Colonial photography perpetually assaulted what became the Nigerian body.”
Taking Care With Broken Things: How I Came to Practice Ethical Taxidermy
“I imagined that spending so much time with a dead thing might make death more understandable.”
The Ways Things End
The end is always near. How do we challenge finality in our daily lives and in our art?
A Moment Spins on the Axis of You: The Fourth Dimension of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrors”
Our experiences with a piece of art are varied and unique. Some pieces may take a lifetime to digest.
A Beginner’s Guide to Snorting the Moon
There’s nothing we do to earn something as unreasonable as moon dust, or death, or a high C you’re just born with.