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9. photo/synthesis 2019
dear readers, plants turn light into something else. this process is also shared by many artists—photographers, who use light to create still images; animators, who use light to create the illusion of movement; painters, who use pigment to create the illusion of a light source. i turn light into memories. the mundane often appears in my head as a dark blur, and moments worth remembering seem to illuminate. watching the sun rise as i finished a 200 page manuscript, sitting at a bonfire, a hand holding a match at dusk. light is energy. clara / e.i.c.
a photo is something you take. synthesis is putting it together. plants sublimate light to keep them alive. so do we.
–––– contributors adair jones austin shutov charlie hoatson clara chin khaddouj barghout
Adair Jones
Adair Jones
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Adair Jones
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Austin Shutov
$17 Island Pudgy pork-men cannibalizing bacon bagels Sweat-stained sadness clinging to the clouds Grassy green tears suffocating the earth A cautious spring comes upon us like a temperate wave of homemade rose water My love is an anachronism in this hungry world My thirsty soul is a foreigner in this fertile land Sweaty bodies slide past each other like shimmering fish invasive species in a tight choked tank The fructose smells of our collective arousal aromatize the sleepless nights of lust for yesteryear Under the UV lights even the deepest light emerges dark from within the fronds of our grassy threads Minor chords save us Each and every other ether is another ethanol soaked messenger of the last conquest
Clara Chin
Asbestos Sex Our debauchery will continue far past Wednesday And no God under this moon could match us better than our bed A shining city on a hill where magnetism is our master And madness is our maker Oh holy Quaker You fill me with an insulation of love Let it live up there where the light is great for throwing parties But I just want to throw a little party just for the two of us You try to use every excuse to drug yourself I’m afraid you’ll drown in a puddle of your own love Endless swiping Head spinning I write poems about love I never had And about places I've never gone The sands of the desert blow throw my hair Lost in the Universal hell Where the angels piss on us their unforgiving rain Soulless bodies march from merch to merch Spinning, the globe revolves backwards But who feels it anyway? More than me All I feel is nothing But all I want to feel is you Do you feel me?
Austin Shutov
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Khaddouj Barghout
Khaddouj Barghout
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sound on “I THINK”/Tyler the Creator/Igor “Cellophane”/FKA twigs “Daylight Matters”/Cate le Bon” “Bullet from a Gun”/Skepta/Ignorance is Bliss “&burn”/Billie Eilish/don’t smile at me “what’s wrong”/KeithCharles/Heartbreak at Our Age “Extra Good”/Valentina/Unmaneagable “Yellow Belly”/Flying Lotus ft. Tierra Whack/Flamagra
Clara Chin
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Charlie Hoatson
Charlie Hoatson
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