Volume II. Melting Point
F/W 2020.
160 pages.
With Holyrad Studio, Hannah Edelman, Von, Beshken, Hugo Christian-Slane, Ellen Lang, Jade Fabello, Austn Fischer, Joy Youwakim, SHLVES, Mt. Borracho, Dannah Gottlieb, Alex Baumann, and more.
Volume II. Melting Point refers to the point-of-no-return for a botched experiment gone wrong, calling to mind images of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor; the ever-impending threat of climate catastrophe; the fire Prometheus steals from Zeus to give to humanity; the working and artist classes spilling into the streets during a summer of protest; and the evaporation of the American melting pot myth amidst a failed pandemic response, increased racial and nationalist prejudice, voter suppression, and economic meltdown.
In light of the global quarantine, how has the artist role-played as scientist, teasing and testing unfamiliar materials and formulating new theories about the phenomenology of art? What happens when the artist as scientist is left to their own demise in their makeshift laboratory, searching for meaning in a world of post-truth and non-reality, for relatability in a hyper-online society with no physical human contact? What happens when Dr. Jekyll loses himself in his work, confronting a side of himself he never thought to find? Or when Frankenstein becomes his own monster, misplacing knowledge and rediscovering it as a smoldering ember, becoming enraptured with the dual nature of fire: a beacon of light in the darkness, yet harmful to the touch?
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”Just finished reading this subversive, degenerate leftist magezine with strong Semitic undertones and sociologist leanings. The editor of this should be shot against the backdrop of an American flag, the red stripes heretofor absent of color. I demand that whenever else owns this piece of propoganda burn it immediately or hand it over to your authority.”
-Matt Ericson
