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Benjamin Shine Studio

TULLE FOR GOOD

The first time I saw sculpted tulle on Instagram, I had to stop and start digging into who the artist is and how did he get into this. Benjamin Shine told twelvmag. com he’s not sure he would have ever picked up an iron without his background in fashion. For more than a year, I was happy to look at pretty faces in his “Flow Series,” but his new project, “Human Kind,” hopes to accomplish more than gravitydefying originality.

In his new series, “the idea of a strength forged from fragility is expressed literally and metaphorically” as Shine uses one continuous piece of tulle to sculpt portraits of front line workers. Anyone can submit a nomination on benjaminshine.com. “Collectively, I hope this series will represent a global ‘portrait’ of humanity’s

Angel Rivera, nurse at St. Joseph Hospital, New Jersey, USA

Benjamin Shine Studio

greatest qualities, especially those of strength, courage and kindness, as demonstrated by these inspiring individuals,” according to the site. “My hope is that the works will be exhibited together in the future and I will endeavour to find ways in which the series can further benefit relevant causes too.” —MV

SOMETHING NEW

In case no one has recommended it to you yet, let us be the first to tell you that Amy Schumer Learns to Cook is an easy watch. Schumer bartended for maybe a decade in Manhattan while her husband, Chris Fischer, is a James Beard award winner. Episodes have titles like “Lunch Break and Pasta Night” and “Taco Night and Movie Night.” Schumer mixes drinks and Fischer sets the menu based on what he can find. The show is filming in quarantine on Martha’s Vineyard while the baby naps. The nanny is the only crew we see. They not only use cardboard signs as graphics, but we see them writing on the cardboard before walking it up to a stationary camera.

Amy Schumer Learns to Cook

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It feels even more real life when Fischer doesn’t laugh at many of Schumer’s jokes and we can see in overhead shots that she has barefeet. But then she pulls out her phone and calls Danny Devito or Jennifer Lawrence to take the show to another level.

The first frittata Madeline made

Madeline Vega

WASTE NOTHING

I never made a frittata before quarantine, but I also never had a pan I could safely stick under a broiler before quarantine. This is a picture of the first one I ever made in March. Today’s version had chicken and nine eggs and no leftover potatoes. Today’s compelled Luis to say I need to write about frittatas. They are amazing for using up all kinds of leftovers. The other picture is a dump cake from when we had too many blueberries and sour cream. —MV

Blueberry Dump Cake

Madeline Vega

Part of the cover

Madeline Strum Photography

ON THE COVER Boom drew the cat on the cover of Issue 85. I asked him to draw a new dad cat and then had it take flight with a bunch of his paper airplanes.