Issue.33
7 posts
Color My World: A Short Story
SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL I remember the first time I made a mistake in public. I must have been 9 or 10 years old. I went to a snack shop after…
The Colorless Color: A Brief History of Black
SWEDIAN LIE We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. – H.…
Seeing Rainbows in Alphabet City
ZACH BUSCH New York is a city full of numbers, and so it’s a city full of colors. Every day I take the 2 or 3 Train to commute down…
Like Velvet Purple Whipped Cream: A Synesthete Plays the Viola
ALEXANDRA REALE It was a chilly March evening in San Francisco, the coalescing Victorians of Duboce Triangle screened ghoulishly by the irrepressible fog. The hushed street saw occasional cars, out…
Blue Blood: A Love Letter to Phthalocyanine
COLIN SOPER “This color is a bully”, my Intro To Painting professor warned me. I had spent half an hour trying to mix up a green that was deep in…
Life in Technicolor
In this issue, we ask the question of what are the various ways in which color — remembered, perceived, or imagined — perform the construction of meaning, experience, and ideology?…