Porous Romance, love through degrees of obliteration
You move through the grain of closed eyes, calling through the undergrowth of my body.
The Great Magpesis: On Unrequited Love
We seem to think that our place on the spectrum between divinity and mayhem comes down to how loved we are.
Murky waters, murky pasts: the dark personal history of an Australian icon
The lives of these men are certainly more interesting than the movie they inspired, and perhaps a testament to the capacity for the Australian outback to swallow complicated figures whole.
Trend Tracking
Just as we can examine how society’s obsession with certain individuals indicates ever-changing and ever-dying social and political values, so can our study of a seemingly trivial and meaningless trend.
Undressed to Impress
Hans Wegner’s PP250 Valet Chair: This chair ‘wasn’t really made for sitting.’
Selling Sex
Kate Saap sat down with ex-independent-sex-worker Lola Sinclair to do some market research.
Climate-Change-ing-My-Wardrobe
As the seasons falter in their usual rhythm, our closets become a reflection of this chaotic dance between Winter and Summer.
Small talk with your left-behind
I wonder whether she’s praying, or meditating, and whether she’s prone to impatience, but the 01:01 train arrives before I work it out. It takes four minutes to depart; four minutes to expose the translucent creature perched in her place.
THE PANORAMA REPORT
Your phone is hungry for the world, hungry to consume everything in front of you. Regular images are no longer enough, we must survey, collate, stitch together.
Haunting in reverse
Coming off antidepressants has been comparable to ‘coming off’ Mum, which I have been doing concurrently.
Meaningful Stone Interview
In conversation with Kim Jimin of Meaningful Stone — on 90’s rock bands, surfing and the spiritual power of the universal subconscious.
Specs of my core, Exploding outwards.
Inspired by works by Youssef Nabil, Shahin Alipour, Lalla Essaydi and Shirin Neshat, this series of photographs explores the beauty of seemingly ‘paradoxical’ intersecting identities; being from the SWANA region, queer, religious/ non-religious – a child of diaspora existing in the uncertainty between eastern and western culture.
