signals

This issue explores the myriad uses of paper – a medium at once literal and symbolic, fragile and dogmatic, portable and burdensome – to translate and regulate life, love, and legality.

This issue explores the loss of the wetlands and those things that we come to find or (re)discover about community, ecology and history as we face unimaginable environmental changes.

This issue is an investigation into humankind’s manipulation of earth, water, air, fire, and metal as a creative, architectural, scientific, spiritual, or social practice.

This issue traverses the haunting crossroads of beauty and horror, including exquisite ghastliness, leaky cemeteries, transcendent funeral traditions, toxic beauty treatments, and predatory flowers.

This issue revolves around the themes of Displacement, Migration, and Dissociation, including explorations in voodoo, water, birds, ventriloquism, and the effects of extraction industries on southern Louisiana.

This inaugural issue of Signals explores the theme of Miniature through small art, micro organisms, short films, tiny houses, one act plays, Bonsai Trees, and micro brews.