I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
—
Li Young Lee
from rose miniatures by Navid Sinaki
- Rest in Paradise, Jonas Mekas by Marianne Shaneen
- El Cine Quema: The Films of Raymundo Gleyzer by Will Noah
- Beatriz Colomina’s X-Ray Architecture by Ashley Simone
- Abbigail N. Rosewood’s If I Had Two Lives by Yasmin Roshanian
- Frederic Tuten’s My Young Life by Thomas Bolt
Editor's Choice
- Titus Kaphar by Jason Stanley
- Young Joon Kwak by Charles Long
- Kazuo Hara by Ken Jacobs
- Bill Jenkins by Joe Fyfe
- Ligia Lewis by Catherine Damman
- William Basinski by Lea Bertucci
- José Roberto Cea by Daniel Flores y Ascencio
- Barry Lopez by Taylor Larsen
Interviews
- Portfolio by Dawn Clements
- Hardening by Danielle Sosin
- A Throw of the Dice by Lucy Ives
- The Genuine Alacrity of Things by Evelyn Hampton
- Bernard: A Character Study by Peter Orner
- Settler/Unsettled by Oliver Baez Bendorf
- Three Poems by Timothy Donnelly
- from rose miniatures by Navid Sinaki
- Unreadable Comic by Tsukue Akimoto
First Proof
- A View of Vesuvius by Daniel Poppick
Journal
- End Page by Alison Kuo & Williamson Brasfield
End Page
Navid Sinaki is a writer and artist from Tehran who currently lives in Los Angeles. His video art has been exhibited in venues including the British Film Institute, Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.
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Originally published in
BOMB 147,
Spring 2019
Featuring interviews with Young Joon Kwak, Kazuo Hara, Bill Jenkins, Ligia Lewis, William Basinski, Titus Kaphar, José Roberto Cea, and Barry Lopez.
