Issue 1
Hybrid: Three Pieces by Monique Quintana
I hate the sound of Judy Jetson singing melodically in an elevator. I once cursed on the elevator in a parking structure on the Fourth of July, said they were scary as fuck, and my mother banished me from her sight long enough to find femininity in a neon garden.
Hybrid: “Ana-Apalar: The Kazakh for Forbearance” by Özgecan Kesici
A hybrid piece by Özgecan Kesici.
Hybrid: “A Bare Landscape, Simply Recorded” by Jenny Wu
The power of images is that they’re inextinguishable, endlessly generative.
Hybrid: “[thread, cotton, and cyanotype on cut paper]” by Isabel Ries Neal
A hybrid piece by Isabel Ries Neal.
Hybrid: “On Lionfish” by Julia Chen
Came to think of that crack as a canyon, and made a bed in its lack.
Hybrid: Three Pieces by Alison Zheng
He was only nineteen and there were multiple mouths to feed. It didn’t seem to matter which direction he turned— in China, they all felt like dead ends.