Cuticle II. - Reveal

CUTICLE

REVEAL ISSUE II. SUMMER 2018

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One thing. This thing and sound glitters.

Indicative transitive particular battles the void.

All afternoon a green-gold silent light

on the spotted grass, sprung.

REVEAL Summer is a season of discovery, of sun-warmed skin and wandering attention.

Accompanied by the words of Peter Gizzi, these images meander between the season’s languid and the feverish faces.

Many lead us into colour and light in strange contortions, into breathing spaces of nature.

Yet even the touches of structures here are somehow soft: the crumbling carcass of a plane; the nurturing collar of a plantpot; the insulatory fuzz escaping a dying building; a rusting industrial frame to a fluid landscape.

These series all share a certain delicacy, a reverence, for moments that have been snatched, handled and unearthed. The act of sharing unseen images is revelatory in itself.

It has been a pleasure to be gifted with these. from London, with love,

contributors Jo Kroese Amy van der Kleyn Poppy Hobbs Liz Lvov Krysten Krulik Mike Cunliffe Fiona Glen Oscar Maloney Hill Yonca Zaim Atreyu Arndts

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cover image: Krysten Krulik facing image: Atreyu Arndts poetry: ‘A Winding Sheet for Summer’, by Peter Gizzi read the full poem at the Poetry Foundation

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Jo Kroese

some lakes have waves too

Lake Superior, Ontario Summer 2017 Canon 550D

I wanted out of the past so I ate the air...

It cut me, an irridescent chord

of geometric light, I breathed deep, it lit me up, it was good.

All these years, lightning, rain, the sky,

its little daisies.

Memento mori and lux.

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Amy van der Kleyn In the name of conservation, Indigenous Peoples and communities all around the world are evicted and violently removed from their traditional native territory.

Accused of poaching and harming the forest, corporations and governments abuse the fundamental rights of Indigenous Peoples.

But having lived on their territories for centuries, Indigenous Peoples are the real guards of their territories and secure the sustainability of the forest and its fauna.

Why are they wrongfully accused as destroyers of their own home?

December 2016 Sony Alpha a6000

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Poppy Hobbs

A blue-green leaving feeling.

To no longer belong to a body sometimes

open to air.

In rain, in early morning rain.

uproot: to move from a familiar location

They anchor the body to the ground and provide support. They are usually unseen but vital for survival.

They grow into new spaces in order to bring stability.

Uprooted and replanted.

June 2018 Nikon D600 50mm1.8 9.

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Liz Lvov

the man who tried to save our souls A couple summers ago my little brother Gary and I went on a walk and passed by a church that we can see through the trees from our house. I noticed the pretty blue door as if seeing it for the first time and asked Gary to stand in front of it so I could take a picture.

The door swung upon and the man who emerged told us he was the minister. I don’t know why I engaged him in conversation the way I did, camera resting on my shoulder as if by accident and snapping pictures of his face.

He was trying to persuade us to come inside, and wasn’t dissuaded when I told him that we were Jewish, and that I was gay. If anything, it worked him up into an even greater frenzy, and he said it was a sign that Jesus wanted to save us from the hell we were destined for.

One picture is from when he was describing hell.

Gary and I left, albeit with bizarre pamphlets.

Bethlehem, NY Summer 2015

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OVERLEAF Krysten Krulik they walk with fire

Wet light and faded promises scorch sunset wanderings into imaginings of our minds. Catch their imprint before they disappear in a fleeting burnout haze.

This series explores the shadows of us left behind in the deepest, blazing brightness – the carefree, hidden fires that will forever remain aflame.

Reykjavik March 2017 Canon AE-1 35mm, Fujifilm Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 400 Color Negative

Today was the day of the ampitheatre in mind.

The day of dreaming speech where the light is dope

and that’s all you can say...

I will say this long agony is great being awake It is being lovely now.

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Mike Cunliffe

Dark Garden

All the stars are here that belonged to whatever

was speaking. ... A musical joybang.

Touching everything.

Beings of knowledge in the dark garden, lighting their stage. No one is watching them.

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A daring light from pewter to whatever.

Now discrete observations produce undramatic

sound, like I am a bubble, make me the sea. O, make me the sea. ...I make sounds, I forget to die. I call it living,

this inhuman conch in the ear.

A pewter sensation and wind.

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Fiona Glen brick soft

The stone face of the street, breaking at the seams, shows a secret fur a hirsuteness unhidden, a mammalian glow propagating on our property.

The touch of warmth in our walls, feels its way into the light from the concrete blanket of a home.

London June 2018 Canon A-1, 400TMax film

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I know it ‘s summer even if I can’t decipher the call.

I believe in the birds haunting me. I hold on.

I’m full of bluster but also full of vision....

The sun remains a yellow sail tacked to the sky.

I am climbing the air here. I am here in the open.

The kestrel swerves. Its silent kerning.

A stunning calibration of nothing .

I am left to see.

Oscar Maloney Hill flashes of brilliance

above: ‘apocalyptic’ far right: ‘kite over Yoff’ right: ‘hopeful’ iPhone (right) & Contax T2 on Lomography Colour Negative 400 ISO 35mm film (above & far right)

These three photos depict revelations of light. Two late nights in The Hague produced two vastly different sunsets, one apocalyptic and another more hopeful. I’ve not seen a sunset like the former since, it was mesmerizing.

The third image is the early morning sun hitting the breast of a Black Kite over Yoff Beach, Dakar.

I waited patiently, holding off until the moment the Kite was flying solo and exposed to the rays of light.

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Yonca Zaim

persembe pazarı

Elmalı, Akçay July 2017

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The sun was a goldish wave taped to a book.

A wavy diagram in a fusty book.

Foxed old wave.

A soft electro-fuzz enters the head.

A soft opiate lightness.

What could be the message in this

pointlist masquerade.

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Atreyu Arndts haze

Photography is all about revealing a subject from the photographer’s perspective – blurring the lines between objective and subjective realities.

This is a glimpse of how I see beauty in a mundane nettle, a fleecy leaf and a tucked-away handcrafter.

EOS 700D Camera 2017 - 2018

Looking out over the day, the pale performing day.

I always consult the light before composing air...

The leaves broadcast color.

I was born in summer, my conqueror,

breaking into wisteria.

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