“When I talk about color I try to make it clear that it doesn’t need to be perceived through something exclusively visual but with other senses.  If you can hear colors you can amplify the perceptions of the color and you can hear infrared and ultraviolet, so you can perceive more colors than through the […]

We are strangers from ourselves, in particular the anatomical construction that literally holds the fibers of our being in place.  The space within the body is as infinite and unknowable to the untrained eye as the celestial bodies that dwell above.  An understanding of the viruses that thrive within the human body are known to […]

Los Angeles based collaborators Case Simmons and Andrew Burke, better known as the collective Simmons and Burke, revel in the visual cacophony of the depths of Google and cyberspace.  By culling thousands of images from disparate sources inspired by themes of popular culture, kitsch, the cult, and the surreal, they construct Palettes whereby the source […]

Jordan Fox defies categories but defines them as well.  The New York based performer believes the human body is a blank canvas and with the right combination of couture and makeup he can adopt any persona imaginable.  Tony Chavira speaks with Fox about the influence of sexuality, eroticism and the fluidity of gender.   Tony […]

There were once stores so busy that parking lots expanded for miles to accommodate their traffic. There were once gas stations so coordinated that travelers were easily accommodated to and from their destinations.  There were once industrial parks so filled with work and productivity that the idea of an economic collapse seemed ludicrous, almost unreasonable. […]

“I’m sure that I prolong my life through these things.” – Chris Engman Work by Chris Engman, photos courtesy of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Imagine glancing quickly past photographer Chris Engman’s work, Transplant—where the entire image of a tree is constructed using panels of images—while in development.  Is it any less real when you […]