It’s June, and we’re sweating right through the striped knees of our old-timey bathing suit. Join us as we scuttle into the shade of a giant umbrella and let these beach reads tickle the sand off our toes.
Our ninetieth issue has art crimes of the future, poems that do yet don’t add up, an aspiring Western hero, and a flaming car in reverse. Also a great cover photograph–with body paint, which is a first for us.
Rock it online or roll the .pdf.
Quick remind-plea: We need YOU to crank up your steam-powered typing machine and create a beautiful monster for our Victorian Mash-Up Issue!
John Sable (body paint by Dawn Marie Harms-Svanoe)
“Android #3,” by John Sable
JOHN SABLE is a lifelong learner. He spent the last 30 years enrolled in various public university and private college programs. Currently he owns and operates Sable Park Photography, a wedding photography business in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Anna (sable-park.com).
The android project was John’s submission for a figure study assignment at Madison College. He collaborated with body paint artist DAWN MARIE HARMS-SVANOE (facebook.com/dawnmariesvanoe). She was a colorful contestant on Skin Wars season 2 (facebook.com/SkinWarsShow/) and is the co-founder of, and lead makeup artist at, Glitter to Gore, a cosmetic supply store in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin (facebook.com/newglittertogore/).
The full collection of android photos is available for viewing and purchase at photos.sable-park.com/android
“May” suggests potential paths, offering not the certainty of resolution but the allure of possibilities.
In this spirit, our eighty-ninth issue grapples with some tough questions. What have you lost? What if the circus didn’t have to die? What was Mary Jane Kelly like before she met Jack the Ripper? What’s in the box? Why aren’t you a spoon? Does this month’s cover art include an ouroboros?
Scry it online or summon the .pdf.
