Issue 46: Spring 2021

Maya Ciarrocchi, **This Place Has a Body**, 2020, Cyanotype

This Place Has a Body (Cover Image by Maya Ciarrocchi) is one of a series of cyanotype prints comprised of architectural renderings of demolished buildings, maps of vanished places, and decorative details from the walls and ceilings of now destroyed wooden synagogues. Through the layering of architecture, maps, and memory in this work, Ciarrocchi investigates how displacement writes itself into generational consciousness. The resulting compositions construct new, fantastical spaces that offer possibilities for healing and remembrance.

Editor’s Note

Our editors and interns are so beyond proud to introduce the stunning fiction, poetry and essays from around the world in Issue #46, as well as three interviews with artists in literature, design and film who have accomplished so much this year. Putting together an issue during the pandemic–with all of our staff working remotely–was as rewarding as it was challenging. When all else seemed to be falling apart around us–through the year of isolation, police brutality, the presidential election and social and political unrest–the artists and writers featured in Issue #46 helped remind us that stories matter. All stories matter. We hope you fall in love with these stories and voices as fast and as hard as we did.–Lindsay Sproul, Editor

Leah Johnson, Photo Credit: Reece T. Williams

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