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…
This Schiaparelli dress transforms the female physique into a landscape of pain. With a pattern designed by surrealist artist Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli created this piece as a part of her Spring 1938 ‘Circus Collection’. It consists of a motif of bursting flesh that repeats itself throughout the dress with a matching veil that accompanies…
A mother holds up her daughter whilst sitting on a rocking chair. The mother’s chest is hollow as she holds up her seemingly happy baby. One does not understand this scene as the woman being incomplete, rather it can be seen that her child completes her. A perhaps archaic assumption, I think ignoring that would…