Hayley Cranberry: Platonic Intimacy

Hayley Cranberry: Platonic Intimacy

Hayley Cranberry Small is an urban planner, ceramicist, and disability justice advocate. She is the founder of Lutte Collective, a space and community for disabled and chronically ill artists.

Read our interview with Hayley here

Caring for the Upbringing of Young Adults Holds Up Tomorrow’s Sun by Amanda Ba

Caring for the Upbringing of Young Adults Holds Up Tomorrow’s Sun

Amanda Ba

Caring for the Upbringing...

An original figurative oil painting by, artist Amy Hughes who has exhibited in New York, titled Submerge II

An original figurative oil painting by, artist Amy Hughes who has exhibited in New York, titled Submerge II

Amy Hughes

Submerge II

Amanda Ba

Amanda Ba

She is aware of the precariousness of her own identity. This gives her permission to occupy, more comfortably and more productively, the liminal space that is what Ien Ang would call in-between-ness—for Ang, hybridity is a welcome respite from the boundaries that children of the diaspora are often confined within. The self-generated idealization of her far-away “foreign” childhood hometown is often glaring, and the hybrid woman finds herself at once escaping to and challenging her possibly-confabulated halcyon memories, the psychic remembrances of an apparent “motherland”. (One gazes at her homelands with weary lucidity and any illusory pane shatters.)
Amy Hughes

Amy Hughes

What do a juicy fillet of salmon and a body half-submerged in bath water have in common? Through soft-colored, naturalistic paintings, Amy explores the beauty of female bodies in everyday life - the beauty of vulnerable, soft flesh itself safe from the glare of cameras and gloss of magazine pages.