What the Water Gave Me
This project began as an accident.
Baffler Archives: Odds and Ends
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Elegant Company
Toward the end of 1968, Arthur Tress started bringing along his Hasselblad camera on visits to the Ramble. Designed as a paragon of the picturesque in the mid-nineteenth century, the artificial woodland in the middle of New York’s Central Park had become overgrown and ...
Happy Trails
Before I knew it, we were dancing through her apartment in ball gowns, eating chocolate Whoppers she found in her weed drawer.
It’s Not What the World Needs Right Now
I have never engaged with the world so deeply as an artist.
Niagara Falls 2024 A.D.
Around Niagara Falls, the past and present of tourism pile on top of one another.
Facing the Fire
On a former palm oil plantation, a community rebuilds.
Metal Milk Sugar Silk
Depicting our messy agricultural present.
GraftKings
Against the spread of the casino economy.
Sky Blue Connexion
We know that Coventry is synonymous with suffering.
Trans-Pakistan Zindabad
Imagining a revitalized Trans-Pakistan Adventure Services.
Land of Seven Huts
The Khasis are a matrilineal community residing predominantly in Northeast India, in the states of Meghalaya and Assam, as well as in neighboring Bangladesh. According to Khasi cosmology, the community originated from the seven families who remained on earth when the tree ...