Rip it up and start again
There’s a lot to process in Mercedes Nuñez’s work. What stands out most is sheer decay, excess, and Nuñez’s talent not for cleaning up messes but arranging them.
30 days of june
30 days of June series, June 2022
A tale of two cities, and five windows
The window-as-gallery tactic cleverly apes a form meant for commerce. It also circumvents an indisputable fact of sharing art: that galleries often appear uninviting to general audiences.
Avert your eyes (or not)
Blubber, a collection of Gilbert Hernandez’s X-rated cartoons, isn’t a book I’d recommend to most people. I think most people would find it vile, actually.
Needs more fushigi
Nakamori presents something with more menace, distance and frost. "Fushigi" is not quite sinister. It’s more like an untreated fever. The chills start to set in.
Wednesday morning filler
The Cumby’s cashier stared blankly into oblivion. "Sorry, it’s just one of those nights," she said.
You could burn up my clothes
(Part 2 of 2) SOTT’s many collisions show how things come together. Or don't come together. The ways our best efforts inevitably get misinterpreted, shuffled, or just plain fail—quite a series of signs to receive, no?