Issue 15

folio
Issue
15 - Spring 2016
McGill Art + Design

folio magazine
issue 15 - spring 2016
folio staff
Thea Brogan
Hortense Chauvin
Chelsea Dalzell
Aaron Dishy
Levi Easterbrooks
Emily Enhorning
Megan Jezewski
Josh Marquis
Ruby Ross
Reagan Schoenholz
Liv Silva
Justine Tupe
Kate Whiteway
about
Folio is a student-run visual art and design magazine that
acts as an ongoing archive of McGill’s artistic community
by providing a venue for student artists to showcase their
work. It is published biannually.
Cover:
Charlotte Zaininger
Hunting Dogs in the Loire Valley
Facing Page:
Sarah Bentivegna
human soup
All contents © the respective artists.

content
Moriah Stendel
after you go to sleep and before
you wake up
Hayley Mortin
amalgam 1
amalgam 2
Charlotte Zaininger
New Island Aquarium BK
Elli Slavitch
High Four !
Viola Chen
Fanmail
Muse
Siting Ni
Statue of a Hand with Flowers
Svava Tergesen
Jamie
Untitled
Maren

Moriah Stendel
after you go to sleep and
before you wake up

Hayley Mortin
amalgam 1
amalgam 2

Charlotte Zaininger
New Island Aquarium BK

Elli Slavitch
High Four !

Viola Chen
Fanmail
Muse

Siting Ni
Statue of a Hand with Flowers

Svava Tergesen
Jamie
Untitled
Maren

folio contributors
Sarah Bentivegna
I’m originally from New England, and I’m in my second
year at McGill in the faculty of Arts, studying French and
German language. I have been creative my entire life,
being surrounded by creative women throughout my
childhood: my mother, a botanical artist, and my grandmother,
an architect.
Elli Slavitch
My work is inspired by the idea of skin, and its relationship
to space. High Four ! explores the friendly and yet
nauseating relationship that one can have with the skin
they live in. Whether it be fleshy, flabby or frail, there’s
something to be said about the way our skin moves in
space, and the way it feels.
Moriah Stendel
When sleep won’t arrive and restlessness churns, inspiration
slaps you and you find yourself up at 5 am churning
out compositions, thinking about nothing but pen and
paper and ink, guided by the movement of one colour
to the next, shapes, sizes, amorphous forms, art boiled
down to the simple and flexible, mapping out a childhood
imagination.
Hayley Mortin
Hayley Mortin is a second year psychology student. She
works at the library and likes to cut, paste and smush
together the old discarded textbooks that don’t make it
into the archives. She listens to a lot of Missy Elliott and is
really bad at keeping her room clean.
Charlotte Zaininger
Photography is spiritual in that it forces you to be present.
It teaches you to sift through moments as they flood past
and choose the most beautiful ones. The important ones.
The ones you want to rescue.
I see photography as an intimate form of collecting. My
photo collection acts as a diary of the people, places, and
memories I cherish, and a good photo is as special to me
as a vinyl record or precious stone. There is something
compelling about an art form that consistently brings
more joy to the artist than the viewer, and for that reason
I encourage everyone to try photography . I can’t imagine
myself ever stopping.
Viola Chen
viola likes to doodle portraits of fuckboys and cultural
theorists. her favourite kardashian is kendall.
Siting Ni
After getting her bachelor degree in China, Siting Ni
currently pursues her graduate study in Department
of Chemistry, McGill University. Interested in the art
and culture in Age of Enlightenment, Siting emphasizes
elegance, delicacy and serenity in her own art, while
embracing the modern realistic elements.
Svava Tergesen
Photography is a way for me to explore the singularity
of my relationships with people and to objects. Despite
knowing someone intimately, or interacting with an
object every day, there are aspects of our relationship
that I’m unable to quantify. The unpredictable nature of
film photography and the cyanotype process has helped
me reflect upon the fact that all I know continues to
evade me.
Svava is a fourth year undergraduate student in Mathematics
and World Cinemas.

Thanks to the AUS Fine Arts
Council and the Students’ Society
of McGill University for their
generous support.