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2019
KIOSK 61
PARADISE LOST
Dear Readers, At Kiosk, our goal is to provide a platform for the student artists and writers of KU. Every semester, we curate a selection of works that we feel best exemplifies a certain theme, whether that be coming of age or artistic renaissance. Year after year, we are blown away by the skill and passion that emerges from these works, and we are proud to present them to the wider world.
For Kiosk 61, we wanted to sharpen our focus. We recognized within the student body a certain anxiety, an uncertainty fueled not only the tumultuous life of a college student, but the instability of the world at large. With our political climate growing increasingly hostile and concerns about an impending climate crisis reaching a fever pitch, the future we imagined for ourselves can feel like a paradise lost, a potential life no longer possible.
We wanted to give students a place to explore these feelings through their art, both in terms of their anxieties but also in terms of their optimism. Finding light in the darkness is both difficult and admirable, and we hope that by
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offering both ends of this spectrum, we capture these students’ endless capacity for grief, empathy, and hope for a changing world.
We would like to thank our staff, our friends, our families, and our advisors, Mary Klayder and Andrea Herstowski, for helping us craft this edition of Kiosk. And thank you, our readers, for supporting our magazine. Within these pages, we hope that you might find a small slice of paradise amidst the chaos of the world around us.
Hopefully yours, Jordan Graham Jamie Hawley Kelsey Rolofson Hannah Wexler
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