Relational Cartography: Photographing the Landscape of Redlining
By Visual Art Issue 110
We get the crap… If you get white people over here, then they’ll start making the produce look worthy… It shouldn’t be like that. This is our city… We care just as much about our kids, just as much as the white people out there in Williamsville, Amherst, and other surrounding areas… Why can’t our kids see the same things?
Read MoreMausoleum for a Scorpio
By Poetry Issue 107
‘Speak to us of poetry and politics,’ / he said to me from his seat in the audience / as I was on stage.
Read MoreSeeing through Idols: Art and Imagination at the Border
By Visual Art Issue 106
Long before authorities are prepared to tear down walls, artists help us see through them.
Read MoreRadiant Power: Authority and Violence in New Egyptian Fiction
By Essay Issue 89
The Televangelist by Ibrahim Essa, translated by Jonathan Wright (American University in Cairo Press, 2016) The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette (Melville House, 2016) “The Boy Jihadi” by Youssef Rakha (Guernica, 2015) IN THE EARLY HOURS of January 1, 2011, a bomb was set off among New Year’s Eve worshippers…
Read MoreSome Questions about Politics and the Imagination
By Essay Issue 89
Q WOULD YOU MIND if I asked you some questions about the current political situation, given the upcoming presidential election and turmoil in Europe? A. I do mind, as a matter of fact. I have nothing to say about such matters. They’re far too complex. Not to mention depressing. And crazy-making. Besides, I left politics behind…
Read MoreAlways Now
By Essay Issue 62
ARE YOU CONVINCED that everything is going to hell in a handbasket? Down the tubes? Or are you possessed of a more sanguinetemperament? Do you feel that life is getting better every day in every way? Do you believe in progress or regress? What would the make and model of your handbasket happen to be?…
Read MoreThe Myth of Independent Film
By Essay Issue 66
IT STARTED with a phone call. “Sweet D, I’m coming to California. I want to interview you for my new book.” Nobody ever called me “Sweet” except my Davidson College roommate, John Marks. Evidently he was on the prowl, in search of his next story. I was intrigued. “Why me?” I asked him. “Because you…
Read MoreRecognizing the Stranger: The Art of Emmanuel Garibay
By Essay Issue 68
ART MAY BE CONCERNED with the creative manipulation of images, but words are always part of the picture. When we encounter a work of art, a load of labels and captions, categories and explanations always works to help or hinder our better understanding. Some are printed on the wall beside the work; others we carry inside…
Read MoreWritten in the Book
By Essay Issue 80
The Road Ahead Voices for the Next Twenty-Five Years Many gifted artists and writers of faith working today were just learning how to read and hold their crayons when Image was founded. They never experienced the culture wars of the eighties that weighed so heavily on an older generation; theirs are a different set of…
Read MoreFar as the Curse is Found: The Art of Scott Kolbo
By Essay Issue 80
The prophet is a realist of distances, and it is this kind of realism that you find in the best modern instances of the grotesque. —Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners SOME MONTHS AGO, while traveling, I walked full-force into the sloping ceiling of the unfamiliar guest room where I was staying. The blow to…
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