Welcome to Issue 13 – our first steps into producing a no-ads art magazine, loving papery things as we do.

In this issue:

Mail Art
“You never know what you’re going to get. Today, it might be a miniature book made from wire and cardboard. Tomorrow, it could be a little sculpture tucked in a hand-sewn bag or an envelope-sized drawing made using rubber stamps, paint, and poetry…”

Adventure: Whale Watching (sort-of), by Chantelle Carlson
“I might as well begin by saying that there are no whales in this story. Whales will be talked about, but let me be clear: a whale never makes an appearance…”

The Wreckage of TWA 800, by Douglas Coupland
“On my living room wall I have a 4×8-foot backlit Plexiglas photo of the remains of TWA Flight 800 which crashed enroute from New York’s JFK Airport to Paris early in the evening of July 17, 1996…”

In Conversation: with Jane Siberry, by Karen Neudorf
“Jane has been creating music for over 20 years. Rolling Stone once called her the ‘mensa siren’. She is many parts poet, composer, storyteller, wandering minstrel, and sound sculptor. She is also a producer who walked away from a major label in 1996 to start her own company..”

The Butterfly Effect, by Deegy Dallong
“Shadows in a farmer’s field, hemmed in…”

Random Access: Pageantry! Art College!! Makeovers!!! Heaven!!!! (An Illustrated History of my Beautiful Life), by Rene Joshi Sims
“I am an artist, so Beauty is something I have to think about, whether I want to or not. Mostly, I don’t.”

And more!

Artwork by Scott Benoit, Spencer Burke, Aaron Leighton, Maija Graham and Wolf Erlbruch.