My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
—
Yayoi Kusama
Super-Vault by Lee Lai
- Adrienne Truscott by Erin Markey
- Amit Dutta by Shambhavi Kaul
- Lucy Ives by Tan Lin
- Nina Katchadourian by Mónica de la Torre
- Lisa Sanditz by Kanishka Raja
- Suzanne Bocanegra by John Haskell
- Marcus Steinweg by Yasmil Raymond
- Anoka Faruqee and Michelle Grabner
- Mike Wallace by Phillip Lopate
Interviews
- Portfolio by Renee Gladman
- Mumbai by Kristen Gleason
- Super-Vault by Lee Lai
- Supermán by Achy Obejas
- Three Poems by Alan Gilbert
- Two Poems by Sarah V. Schweig
- from Adjunct Island by Joanna Howard
- The Mattress by Viken Berberian
First Proof
- Teju Cole’s Blind Spot by Claire Lehmann
- Warmer: A Collection of Comics About Climate Change for the Fearful & Hopeful by Matthew Thurber
- Mathieu Lindon’s Learning What Love Means by Andrew Durbin
- Eduardo Coutinho’s Man Marked For Death/ Twenty Years Later by Will Noah
- Paul Kingsnorth’s Beast by Tyler Curtis
- Mark Fosson’s Solo Guitar by Daniel Bachman
- Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins by Hilary Leichter
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Lee Lai is an artist from Melbourne, Australia, currently living in Tio’tia:ke (known as Montreal, Quebec). Her comics and illustrations are part fiction, part memoir, part emotional journalism.
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Originally published in
BOMB 141,
Fall 2017
Featuring interviews with Amit Dutta, Lisa Sanditz, Nina Katchadourian, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Suzanne Bocanegra, Adrienne Truscott, Marcus Steinweg, Mike Wallace, and Lucy Ives.
