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RED DOOR MAGAZINE #33 www.reddoormagazine.com FEATURED ARTIST JORGE POSADA ................................8-15 SOUTHNORD OPEN CALL.........16-17 SEQUENTIAL CONDITIONS By Martin Andersen ......................18-21 POETRY TERENCE DEGNAN..............................22 SAMUEL PRINCE...................................23 DJ LEE......................................................24 JON WHITBREAD.................................25 A farewell to ANDREW SINGER ..........................26-27 RED DOOR presents.............................................28-29 The Appearance of the Unpredictable by TANYA COSIO............................30-31 The Collages of MARIJA IVETIC................................32-33
RED DOOR MAGAZINE #33
www.reddoormagazine.com
FEATURED ARTIST
JORGE POSADA ................................8-15
SOUTHNORD OPEN CALL.........16-17
SEQUENTIAL
CONDITIONS
By Martin Andersen ......................18-21
POETRY
TERENCE DEGNAN..............................22
SAMUEL PRINCE...................................23
DJ LEE......................................................24
JON WHITBREAD.................................25
A farewell to
ANDREW SINGER ..........................26-27
RED DOOR
presents.............................................28-29
The Appearance
of the Unpredictable
by TANYA COSIO............................30-31
The Collages of
MARIJA IVETIC................................32-33
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RED DOOR <strong>33</strong><br />
THE UNFORESEEABLE<br />
FEATURING JORGE POSADA<br />
SUMMER 2023<br />
REDDOORMAGAZINE.COM<br />
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RED<br />
ANDREW<br />
SINGER<br />
Farewell to poet,<br />
artist, teacher<br />
and cultural<br />
organizer,<br />
founder of Trafika<br />
Europe.<br />
26-27<br />
SEQUENTIAL<br />
CONDITIONS<br />
New series by<br />
Martin Andersen<br />
18-21<br />
02<br />
SOUTHNORD<br />
Open call for<br />
Afro-Nordic<br />
creators!<br />
16-17
NATURE &<br />
CULTURE<br />
international<br />
poetry Film<br />
Festival<br />
DATES<br />
ANNOUNCED!<br />
7<br />
<strong>33</strong><br />
JORGE POSADA<br />
FEATURED<br />
ARTIST<br />
8-15<br />
PUUT library<br />
and other <strong>Red</strong><br />
<strong>Door</strong> Gallery<br />
events!<br />
28-29<br />
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Founder & Director:<br />
Elizabeth Torres<br />
(Madam Neverstop)<br />
Poetry Editor:<br />
Pablo Saborío<br />
Correspondents:<br />
Melaine Knight<br />
The Neon Rebel<br />
Australia<br />
Brandon Davis,<br />
Germany / DK<br />
Mario Z.Puglisi<br />
Tanya Cosio<br />
Mexico<br />
Miller Almario<br />
<strong>Red</strong> Visions<br />
Colombia<br />
Martin Andersen<br />
Denmark<br />
Kultivera<br />
Sweden<br />
Kirjan Talo / Bokens Hus<br />
Finland<br />
Cover & featured art by<br />
Jorge Posada<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS:<br />
EDITORIAL ........................................... 6-7<br />
FEATURED ARTIST<br />
JORGE POSADA ................................8-15<br />
SOUTHNORD OPEN CALL.........16-17<br />
SEQUENTIAL<br />
CONDITIONS<br />
By Martin Andersen ......................18-21<br />
POETRY<br />
TERENCE DEGNAN..............................22<br />
SAMUEL PRINCE...................................23<br />
DJ LEE......................................................24<br />
JON WHITBREAD.................................25<br />
A farewell to<br />
ANDREW SINGER ..........................26-27<br />
RED DOOR<br />
presents.............................................28-29<br />
The Appearance<br />
of the Unpredictable<br />
by TANYA COSIO............................30-31<br />
RED DOOR MAGAZINE #<strong>33</strong><br />
Summer, 2023<br />
<strong>Red</strong> Press, Copenhagen<br />
ISBN: 978-87-94003-19-3<br />
www.reddoormagazine.com<br />
The Collages of<br />
MARIJA IVETIC................................32-<strong>33</strong><br />
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EDITORIAL<br />
Dear worldthreaders,<br />
This issue of <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong> celebrates<br />
the unforeseeable, and how<br />
artists interpret these constant<br />
flux of information and need for<br />
adaptability in their creative work.<br />
Jorge Posada, our featured artist,<br />
is a Colombian-American creator<br />
with extensive international<br />
experience, whose work I have<br />
had the pleasure of celebrating<br />
and growing alongside with, since<br />
I was a child… so you can imagine<br />
how excited I am to introduce<br />
him to you. Due to <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong>’s<br />
14th anniversary coming up this<br />
September, we will be hosting a<br />
celebration and magazine launch,<br />
along with the artist and myself,<br />
in New York, so please email<br />
me at reddoorny@gmail.com if<br />
you would like to receive more<br />
information.<br />
You can meet us at the end<br />
of August in Finland: First in<br />
Helsinki as part of IMMART’s<br />
ARTIVAL event taking place at<br />
Nordic Culture Point’s library<br />
in collaboration with Globe Art<br />
Point… and in Turku, as part of<br />
Kirjan Talo’s cultural agenda.<br />
Additionally, several exciting<br />
opportunities. The Poetic<br />
Phonotheque has partnered<br />
with SouthNord, a Nordic<br />
organization that aims to visibilize<br />
Afro-Nordic voices, based in<br />
Stockholm, Sweden, and we’re<br />
currently hosting an open call for<br />
audiovisual content to screen at<br />
an event in October.<br />
<strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong> magazine #35 is<br />
also currently accepting poetry<br />
submissions until Oct 8th via<br />
Submittable at https://redpress.<br />
submittable.com/submit<br />
And <strong>Red</strong> Press will soon be<br />
announcing the selected<br />
poems and visual artists for its<br />
upcoming Nature & Culture<br />
Poetry anthology… as well as an<br />
upcoming anthology of poetry in<br />
translation in collaboration with<br />
Versopolis.<br />
So you see, we’ve been busy.<br />
Submerged in poetry, visual arts,<br />
good ideas. As always, I’ll take<br />
advantage of this moment to<br />
remind you that all of <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong>’s<br />
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Looking forward to reporting<br />
on these and other activities. To<br />
poetry and beyond!<br />
Madam Neverstop.<br />
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FEATURED ARTIST<br />
Jorge Posada is a painter, sculptor, printmaker<br />
and photographer who lives and works in New<br />
York. Posada has earned awards from prominent<br />
institutions including the Museum of Contemporary<br />
Art in Bogota, Colombia and the Atlantic Center for<br />
the Arts in Daytona, Florida. He was awarded a six year<br />
scholarship at the Lower East Side Print Shop and an<br />
Honorable Mention at Expresiones Hispanas Art tour<br />
USA. His artwork was showcased on Channel 13 in the<br />
documentary The New Immigrants. In 2004, Posada<br />
created a 1.500 sq ft mural titled Homage to the Arts as<br />
part of the renovation of the Ritz Theater in Elizabeth,<br />
New Jersey.<br />
His art has evolved into a less realistic depiction of<br />
the human figure: a cross between figuration and<br />
abstraction. He masters a mixed-media of charcoal,<br />
acrylic and oil on canvas to create his compositions by<br />
building up carefully placed transparencies of color.<br />
Posada works in series which address the human form<br />
in a dynamic and constant flux.<br />
Currently Posada divides his time between USA,<br />
Europe and Colombia to study the masters he admires<br />
and to exhibit his artwork. Posada’s work is in mayor<br />
private and public collections in the USA, Europe,<br />
Japan and Latin America and has been published in<br />
numerous art books.<br />
08<br />
JORGE POSADA<br />
LEFT: EMBRASING THE SHADOW<br />
RIGHT: THE ERECTION OF THE CROSS I
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010
DIPTYCH OF FALLING BODIES -<br />
JORGE POSADA<br />
011
012
JORGE POSADA - RUBENS VII<br />
013
As a visual artist I am not interested in proposing an organized discourse within my artwork. It is<br />
not my intention to establish a narrative to tell stories since I am not a writer. I prefer to establish a<br />
visual dialog that ideally creates a communion of feelings between the public and my work. I think<br />
is important to allow the viewer to find new ways of interpretation, discover new visual angles and<br />
emotional connections that usually escape my own initial intention.<br />
Since the beginning of my career the human figure has had a very important role in my work.<br />
Sometimes I depict the body in a realistic manner others only as a blurry suggestion of a human<br />
form, but always with the same intrinsic intention of exploring its qualities as a vehicle of formal<br />
expression. I intent to establish a relationship of feelings and emotions between the public and<br />
my work. My artwork evolved into a less realistic depiction of the human figure: a cross between<br />
figuration and abstraction which addresses the human spirit in a dynamic and constant flux.<br />
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JORGE POSADA<br />
EXODUS SERIES<br />
THE RUN<br />
015
016<br />
OPEN CALL
Tapestry by Muriel Makhathini called “Morgon sång”<br />
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018
019
020
021
POETRY<br />
Driving home<br />
to a place where my parents still// clung to an American hope// I pull the car over// write<br />
a bad haiku about the little urn// my kid brother gave me// to give to my aunt// so she<br />
can spread my father’s ashes// over their parents’ graves// I don’t check the canister//<br />
to see if there are remnants of him// inside// I call the haiku// Schrödinger’s Dad// laugh<br />
a bit// in the cold spring air// So many of these breaks// from being tethered to a body//<br />
have to do with layered traditions// Your skeleton is at the bottom of a pile// of coats//<br />
in a spare bedroom// in some kin’s queer home// your spirit// is pacing its attic// while<br />
the elders drink whiskey and talk of the newly departed’s// rawest moments in the sun//<br />
Or what you imagine your spirit to be// the cobbled memories clasping the left hand of<br />
intent// like that old church rhyme// about steeples// The last time you were here//the<br />
old man was paying for dinner on the rivers’ edge// and pointing out the bridge where<br />
he and his friends would practice their jackknives// the same brother, then, looking hard<br />
down the banks and squinting// to see those joyful children —dares in their throats;<br />
adrenaline pooling in their reservoirs— How does anyone keep inside the time they are<br />
in// when these stories take crowbars to our presence// birds are everywhere// They are<br />
electrified by instinct// but I like to believe it’s intuition// When I put my portion of dad<br />
in the bird-feed// it was an invitation to follow me to memories he couldn’t be privy to,<br />
otherwise// There are birds the color of prom dresses// white as lake effect// There’s this<br />
one Argentinian theropod I’ve been birding// ever since I stumbled upon its existence//<br />
Who knows if one has ever graced Rochester// which is where I’m from// where boys<br />
become swans// midair// and, gasping for breath, become boys again<br />
Terence Degnan is the author of three books. His most recent, “I Can<br />
Wonder Anything” was published in March (2023). He lives in Brooklyn<br />
with his wife and daughter.<br />
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The Next World Jolt: A Predictive Testimony<br />
I’ll think this can’t be happening.<br />
I’ll refuse to believe it’s happening.<br />
It’ll be the randomness of the day.<br />
A date hitherto divested of meaning.<br />
I’ll keep saying ‘but we took precautions.’<br />
I’ll keep saying ‘but we had protections.’<br />
I’ll post-rationalise.<br />
I’ll say, in a way, I detected its imminence.<br />
I’ll claim I felt its nag, heard its hum.<br />
Everything common to us violated.<br />
*<br />
Rumours will start as rustles and build to rumbles:<br />
Purge all microchips consult catastrophe manual<br />
the docile roll of a cow’s eye ozone layer wilting to tea bag fineness<br />
rolling coverage of TV static<br />
electric pylons pole-axed<br />
parchment dermis of riverbeds resources dwindle to a thimble.<br />
All closed: airports tunnels essential stores<br />
All closed: bridges seaports major roads.<br />
*<br />
I’ll be at the movies.<br />
Nationwide newsflash cuts off the trailers.<br />
I’ll be at the office.<br />
Lower the blinds, form a huddle.<br />
I’ll be at school.<br />
Keep away from the windows.<br />
They’ll tell us to run and not look back.<br />
Phone lines will be bombarded.<br />
They’ll tell us to run and don’t look at the sky.<br />
Networks will haemorrhage.<br />
They’ll tell us to run, holding hands in threes.<br />
Halls given over to makeshift morgues.<br />
They’ll tell us to run and pick up the fallers.<br />
Scare tactics and useful alarmists.<br />
They’ll perform a head count as we face the wall.<br />
Majorettes of the apocalypse.<br />
*<br />
Nothing will seem explainable. We’ll lose the surety our parents felt.<br />
You’ll know it’s bad, when every channel switches to coverage.<br />
Except the shopping channels – I’ll always remember that, still flaunting:<br />
mother of pearl, teardrop pendants, smoothie makers,<br />
hibachis, anti-aging masks, figaro chains,<br />
lavender diffusers, chakra beads, multi-function shavers.<br />
Samuel Prince’s debut collection, Ulterior Atmospheres, was published in 2020 by Live Canon.<br />
His work has recently appeared in Acumen, The Broken Spine, Pedestal and Spelt. He lives in<br />
Norfolk (UK).<br />
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POETRY<br />
Idaho Lake Fragments<br />
1.<br />
Swallow’s nest wedged in the hawthorn, woven with pine needles—<br />
lodgepole, white, ponderosa—and thickened earth. You are not a cradle<br />
or a bedroom but like a bedroom cradle you shelter, rock. Bring me the<br />
protection of clay.<br />
2.<br />
Eagle, wings ruffling the rain drenched air. Bald head a splash of light<br />
above Spring Lake. You are not a mood, but like a mood you darken and<br />
brighten and fade. There, then gone. There. Gone over the tree-lined hills.<br />
Acquaint me with transience.<br />
3.<br />
Snag. Are those ponderosa limbs twisting from your torso? The deep<br />
green has moved into the crevices of your puzzled bark. Your gray head<br />
snapped and rutted. You are not an aging woman but like some ancient<br />
grandmother you are striking, stricken, snagged. Standing, still. Offer your<br />
branched wisdom.<br />
4.<br />
Campfire: cracked red mudrocks cradle your imperfect head. Charred<br />
logs crisscross old coals. Flames gone days, or maybe weeks. You are not<br />
her body, but like my mother whose limbs I held as she crossed over, your<br />
flame still is in its vanishing. Kindle me.<br />
5.<br />
Cattails—carnival corndogs, fairgoers crowding the shoreline. Swamped<br />
family, springtime pelts warming your oblong heads as you age into summer.<br />
You are not wands or wizards but like a wizard wand you can bend<br />
perception—be gentle with your whispering change.<br />
DJ Lee is a writer, scholar, artist, and regents professor of English at<br />
Washington State University. She has published over forty essays and<br />
prose poems, the memoir Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots<br />
(Oregon State 2020), and eight scholarly books, including The Land<br />
Speaks (Oxford 2017).<br />
**Previously published in The Bayan Review, Issue 15, Summer ´23<br />
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Hollowman Goes To The Beach<br />
Hollowman fills up with gold again to get<br />
From one side of the day to the other intact<br />
Negotiates its architecture with some bravado<br />
Thwarted as usual during his rickety rickshaws<br />
Doomedfutileoverambitioushalfhearted<br />
Poorlyexecutedovertakingmanoeuvre<br />
By worrying that as soon as he stops worrying<br />
The Bad Thing will come because he does<br />
Sustain all existence after all.<br />
His glass of chai is getting cold, the universe is growing old<br />
And crab and crow will be there at the end<br />
While whirling eagles whinny like tiny Pegasi and<br />
Scuttling crustaceans will always signify<br />
Tsunami to him now. Young yogis at sunset?<br />
Drowning on ketamine. The sea itself?<br />
Death, death. His cruel mind-claws<br />
Pinch him with the thought of his own children<br />
Old on a hot world but luckily the crabs<br />
Scavenge this carrion that he scatters on the sand<br />
And anyway their golden tunnels are inside him<br />
Jon Whitbread is an artist working and living in Brixton, South London.<br />
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ANDREW<br />
SINGER<br />
Farewell to a poet and fiction<br />
writer, literary editor and translator,<br />
essayist and reviewer, pen-andink<br />
artist and university instructor...<br />
WORLDTHREADER and founder of<br />
026<br />
We dedicate this issue to the memory of our<br />
friend and collaborator Andrew Singer, poet<br />
and founder of Trafika Europe.<br />
Here is the official statement from Trafika<br />
Europe:<br />
“Andrew graced us all with his writing, art,<br />
and his love of literature. He began Trafika<br />
Europe in 2014 after living and working in<br />
Europe as an educator and cultural journalist.<br />
Since then, he has curated a community<br />
of authors, translators, and likeminded<br />
individuals to share European literature in<br />
English translation. We intend on continuing<br />
the project to continue Andrew’s legacy<br />
and we appreciate any patience as many<br />
of us transition into new roles with new<br />
responsibilities. Andrew graced us all with<br />
his writing, art, and his love of literature. He<br />
began Trafika Europe in 2014 after living<br />
and working in Europe as an educator and<br />
cultural journalist. Since then, he has curated<br />
a community of authors, translators, and<br />
likeminded individuals to share European<br />
literature in English translation. We intend on<br />
continuing the project to continue Andrew’s<br />
legacy and we appreciate any patience as<br />
many of us transition into new roles with new<br />
responsibilities.”<br />
Although we never met in person, I had been<br />
poetically conspiring with Andrew for over 3<br />
years, through the podcast, which aired on<br />
Trafika Europe Radio, and through the Poetic<br />
Phonotheque, which now contains his voice<br />
as part of its collection, as well as a selection of<br />
poetry films by Trafika Europe of other poets,<br />
and lastly, of course, through experimental<br />
poetry, with an unaccomplished dream of<br />
collaborating with my music and his works.<br />
Something in the heart slowly shatters every<br />
time one of our worldthreaders goes, but I am<br />
comforted in knowing that his hard work, his<br />
efforts to connect our communities, and his<br />
love for poetry and audiovisual experiences<br />
will keep on shining in the hearts of all of us<br />
who crossed paths with him.<br />
Andrew, it has been a pleasure weaving<br />
projects and ideas with you.<br />
Listen to Andrew’s full <strong>Red</strong> Transmissions<br />
episode here:<br />
https://redtransmissions.libsyn.com/trafikaeurope-research<br />
-Madam Neverstop.<br />
Right: Cat at a window by Andrew Singer.
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RED DOOR GALLERY PRESENTS:<br />
A combination of photography exhibition and<br />
installation, Karl Larsson is our current guest artist,<br />
visiting us from Gothenburg, and bringing along his<br />
fantastic project PUUT. An artist’ books library, where<br />
he collaborates with various artists and poets, as well<br />
as includes his own photography work, to create<br />
limited edition art books... all available in his library.<br />
How does it work? Well, once you arrive to the gallery<br />
you can sign up for your very own library card, and<br />
take advantage of PUUT’s take over by borrowing<br />
books as often as you choose.<br />
The typewriter? It’s our way of pushing this project<br />
forward, ensuring that those “late return notices” look<br />
as beautiful as all his other creations.<br />
August 7 - 12 at <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong> Copenhagen.<br />
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RED DOOR GALLERY CALENDAR<br />
The PUUT library and <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong><br />
invite you to a small festival! Enjoy<br />
the Saturday with readings from<br />
poets and experimental music.<br />
Participating artists:<br />
Lalo Barrubia, Kim Elfving, Jonas<br />
Svensson, Johan Holmlund,<br />
Christer Boberg, Aleisa Ribalta<br />
Guzmán, Två män i en dambob,<br />
Joakim Becker, Pablo Saborío,<br />
Magnus Grehn (more TBA)<br />
August 12 at <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong><br />
Copenhagen.<br />
OF FLESH AND EDGES<br />
These works look into the process<br />
of (dis)identification through which<br />
the body distances itself from<br />
the language and categorization<br />
that has been assigned to it. Zara<br />
Asgher and Laura Hasanen are<br />
visual artists and art educators<br />
based in Helsinki, Finland.<br />
August 18 - 25 at <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong><br />
Copenhagen.<br />
Dreamy images, evocative stories,<br />
memories, inner journeys.<br />
<strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong> opens the doors to<br />
the pop-up exhibit and book<br />
presentation by Italian artist<br />
Ughetta Dalimonti.<br />
Sept 1 - 2 at <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong><br />
Copenhagen.<br />
VIEW POINT presents paintings<br />
that play with the divergent<br />
positions of the observer and<br />
the observed. Some motifs show<br />
actual places, maybe touristic<br />
spots we might have visited. Others<br />
depict faces and eyes that gaze<br />
into nothingness or look directly at<br />
the viewer.<br />
SEPT 23 - 30 at <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong><br />
Copenhagen.<br />
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The Appearance<br />
of the Unpredictable<br />
030<br />
In Mexico there is a phenomenon that<br />
can be summarized in Peso Pluma. The<br />
intellectual world shrieked and society<br />
mobilized. Our ignorance and our<br />
devotion to drugs and money were laid<br />
bare. My first impulse was to condemn...<br />
the second, to listen to the songs and,<br />
little by little, to understand the rivers from<br />
which this boy drew water. He was born<br />
in Jalisco, his maternal family comes from<br />
Culiacán.<br />
Then I remembered the first meetings of<br />
poets and intellectuals in which I saw with<br />
amazement the drugs. This guy openly<br />
promotes narcoculture and consumption...<br />
Is consuming them while reading<br />
Baudelaire or E. M. Cioran different from<br />
doing it while singing a corrido? Maybe<br />
the body does not generate dependence<br />
if they are used while reading philosophy<br />
or poetry, but what kind of deals have<br />
to happen to make the crystal more<br />
affordable or to take a gram to the nose?<br />
You know what the price is and how much<br />
blood has to flow.<br />
The cult to money and frivolity is an old<br />
deal among the societies of capitalist<br />
criminal consumption. What is curious<br />
is that we find it unpredictable. We are<br />
astonished that the majority of the world<br />
chants this music. They refuse to look at<br />
the plants they have painstakingly sown<br />
and cultivated.<br />
Peso Pluma reached the global number<br />
one spot on Spotify. They have tried to<br />
silence it: a boy from Coahuila committed<br />
suicide because his stepfather would not<br />
allow him to listen to corridos belicones<br />
in this country of the disappeared, of<br />
surgeries of buttocks and tits...<br />
The main consumers of these operations<br />
are the so-called buchonas, who are the<br />
companions of the distributors... men<br />
and women who had no choice but to<br />
migrate “to the other side” or starve to<br />
death. And how can the cartel owners not<br />
become heroes if they have been the only<br />
alternative to “get their families or entire<br />
towns out of poverty”?
In a country where the distribution of<br />
wealth is ignominious, where corruption is<br />
the bottle with which the offspring are fed<br />
from birth to death, where opportunities<br />
sound farther away than dying... Of course<br />
they risk living by the skin of their teeth;<br />
let’s say they have no choice in a world<br />
where everyone wants to be accepted,<br />
and dreams of validation.<br />
In Mexico, 40% of the population does<br />
not have the minimum resources to feed<br />
itself. Studying without eating does not<br />
sound attractive. The reading index in<br />
Mexico ranks 107th out of 108, according<br />
to UNESCO. Books or reading devices are<br />
not accessible; on the other hand, high<br />
caliber weapons sound more attractive.<br />
Feminicides, the patriarchal phenomenon<br />
in this country, is redundant: there is no<br />
need to mention the visible. The cult<br />
of drugs, of money, of easy fame, is a<br />
worldwide phenomenon.<br />
A 23 year old boy is convicted for singing<br />
misogynistic lyrics promoting drug<br />
distribution and consumption. Either this<br />
is a very hypocritical world or it is time to<br />
see what we are doing with this world.<br />
TANYA COSÍO<br />
Jalisco, México, 2023<br />
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THE COLLAGES OF MARIJA IVETIC<br />
“We are a collage of our<br />
interests, our influences,<br />
our inspirations, all the<br />
fragmentary impressions<br />
we’ve collected by being<br />
alive and awake to the<br />
world. Who we “are” is<br />
simply a finely curated<br />
catalog of those.”<br />
-Maria Popova<br />
Collages with American pin-up<br />
girls from the 1950s visiting the<br />
masterpieces of visual artists - some<br />
of the finest works of world art over<br />
the millennia.<br />
I think it’s fun to put these together<br />
as the contrast they are and play with<br />
words/idioms in multiple languages<br />
to support the narrative/message of<br />
each image.<br />
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With a twist of humor, irony, feelings,<br />
truth, atmosphere, exclamation and<br />
sometimes the bizarre .... - which<br />
ends in an expression that might also<br />
speak to you. Working with collage<br />
offers the opportunity to use different<br />
fragments from a reality that we<br />
know - but put together in new and<br />
surprising ways.<br />
For many years I have been<br />
fascinated by collages and the visual<br />
art technique behind them. For all<br />
these years, I have slowly made it a<br />
habit to collect paper materials and<br />
have a huge collection.<br />
I work as a school pedagogue<br />
and I have worked with many<br />
forms of creative expression. I have<br />
always been interested in recycling<br />
and collage is a great way to put<br />
something familiar together in an<br />
unexpected and strange meeting<br />
that can give a new reality.
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