Flight 23.3 rises like visions before an oracle: a horse dives into the ocean and a balloon fills with saltwater; Thoreau is erased into meaning and a grandmother lives on through a recipe; a brother is the clothes he left behind and the entirety of history is blood in the first lady’s hands; Lazarus’s wounds are wrapped, while frequencies rise to silence in Beethoven’s ears; children smoke in the trees as a mother, half a world away, considers the life growing inside her; the future is read in footnotes, as instructions for survival come in the form of moving images.
Roberto Jamora’s vibrant art asks us to remember that “people, places, and icons are often coded by color in overt and also invisible ways.”
There is a prescience to the pieces in this flight that gestures in the direction of forever. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Read more about the contributors for v23n3 here.
