By Damon McLeese, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Curation & Identity In her opening statement at the recent Tilt West roundtable on Curation & Identity, prompter Jane Burke stated there was a “burden of representation” in her work as Curatorial Fellow of Textile Art and Fashion at the…

By Hassan Khan, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Masks & Facade One of the greatest barriers to moving outside your comfort zone in life is the fear that you’re not worthy. Feeling like an imposter — like you’re not good enough and other people are going to see…

By Miranda Lash, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Art & Sound “We are listening,” was a refrain that sounded from nearly all quarters of American commerce during the summer of 2020. Across the United States, for-profit and non-profit institutions alike pledged to listen harder, learn more, and become…

By Jennifer Ho, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on The Semiotics of the Stay-At-Home We are a nation divided — this much seems clear no matter what part of the political spectrum you hail from. And it has me worried, not because I think we all need to believe…

by Autumn T. Thomas in response to Tilt West’s virtual roundtable on Art, Trauma & Resistance In March of 2020, the country was forced into introversion at the onset of a worldwide pandemic. A “safer at home” mandate was put in place to save as many people as possible from…

by Josh Mattison, in response to Tilt West’s roundtable on Curiosity & Deceleration There’s a new podcast I just started listening to called Field Recordings. They describe their show as, “A podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields).” And whatever you’re…

How to Be A Witch, Wizard, or Warlock in Today’s Economy by Noel Black Those who sought the illusion — it is done Outdated bones impose the mundane To discover the True Do so with nothing Seek not belief to remain Hang up on people in real life the way they hang up on people in movies Raise your right hand to the heavens and bring down lightning…

We, Patron Saints of Troubled Times by Paulie Lipman We bang our heads in a whisper, screaming to a lord We don’t think maybe might be out there All of our altars rendered hollow wind candles blown out, waiting despite heaven’s backlog for so many candidates to finally be canonized Reaching for the language of ordainment its distance further all the time not realizing We are all already…