ISSUE TWO: DEMONS
Logo Design: Jelena Bonner
Graphic Design: Thao Ho
Something must be said
Something must be said
in the dawn, in the trembling moment that space
like the sensation of puberty
mixes suddenly with something vague
I want
to surrender to a rebellion
I want to rain from that big cloud
I want
to say No No No No
—Let's go
—Something must be said
—The cup, or the bed, or loneliness, or sleep?
—Let's go….
(Forugh Farrokhzad, In a Never-Ending Twilight, Dar Ghorūbi Abadī)
They come in many forms and shapes. And if we don't confront them they might haunt us.
This issue focuses on these ambiguous parts of the living and the dead, of human existence
as well as its encompassing destructive forces. What do you associate with demons? A
source of creation and/or pain? The evil object of repression? Environmental resurrection?
Ghostly cues of forgotten violence?
In this issue, the artists Kondo, Sarnt Utamachote, weirdfullmind, Nicky Chue, Chaulichi,
Ái-Như Võ and ThaoXX meditate through various media and different narrative tools on the
theme 'demons' in both their individual and multiple appearances.
Welcome to our collective reflections on DEMONS.
Franzi Finkenstein and Thao Ho
