Along the red brick walls of your local neighbourhood are children sitting bored out of their minds. Every place that could be a park is an industrial estate, the schools use car parks as a playground, and what kid has a toy? When every adult is working, the unsupervised world comes to ‘life’ – but…
In my own attempts of creating familiarity, I find myself seeking comfort in place over anything else. But what I have come to realise is that by doing so, I have made my own world very small. The initial contact that is made with a place is free of memory, letting you project your fantasies…
If you forget to take the bins out, you’ll see your waste piling up. Sometimes curiosity gets the best of you and you just start inspecting what’s in the bins. Maybe you notice that you ate a lot of frozen pizzas one week, and that’s slightly depressing, or that someone accidentally tossed a fork away.…
Tantalus is a figure from Greek mythology, most well known for angering the gods and getting tortured in Tartarus. His punishment consisted of him standing in a small pool with a tree bearing fruit hanging over him. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches pulled away; whenever he bent down to drink water, the…
Some of the music zines from the 90s live on through web archives. My favourite of these is Massive, produced in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It documented and fed the rave scene in the midwest, with stories about local parties to interviews with disc jockeys (and whatever else they wished to share). Visually, it’s very telling of…
The world often feels bigger than ourselves, but I find that in our travelling moments we are able to forget that. As I get a taxi, plane, train and walk home, I am awarded the liberty of undisturbed reflection. It is a route I have done many times, although I still get nervous, and I…