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Making a Monster: A Craft Essay

Making a Monster: A Craft Essay

To accompany our fall 2025 issue (22.2), we have curated a craft folio on horror, the uncanny, and/or the strange, after noticing that several pieces in the print issue include that theme. Here is CD Eskilson’s piece. What do we mean when we call something a monster? The word itself is likely to have come …

Single Exposures

Single Exposures

Artist’s Statement I used to travel constantly or at least as much as I could afford. I slept in my car, on couches, and in cheap motels. Sometimes I didn’t sleep at all. I liked being awake when the world slept. Thirty-minute exposures in the middle of the night. These photographs aren’t that, though. It’s …

I Do This, I Do That

I Do This, I Do That

The Jewish New Year and my birthday converged in one week;I was 5,718 years younger than the world!The day before was startlingly beautifulas though summer had never sweltered, as though rains had neverpersisted. My cousin and I chatted on the plaza of the libraryuntil she left to register voters, and my friends collected meso we …

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