Writing Wanda Jaynes
BY Bridget Canning
PREVENTATIVE CANCER surgery, Kathy Dunderdale’s twitter account, and mass shootings as regular news: these random happenings came together to shape the idea of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes. Wanda Janynes’ unlikely heroism and its personal fallout took shape only as I drew connections between those three things.
How do you deconstruct a sneeze?
BY Ellen Curtis
“I’M TRYING TO STRETCH out a small moment, one that only takes a second, and examine that. I’m looking at subverting traditional representations of women. Basically, looking at the expected behavior and appearance, and unpacking that.”
Seeing Through Glass, Plastic and Ice
BY Matthew Hollett
When I signed up for my first photography class in art school, my dad rummaged around in the basement and placed a heavy leather case in my hands. I unbuckled it to find his old 35mm camera, a Zenit EM. It had an enormous dent above the lens, as if it had deflected a bullet, and its selenium light meter, mysteriously, did not require batteries.
Setting, Sawing, Shooting, Boiling and chiseling
BY John Graham
“THAT’S THE LAST EVENT that you do to complete the circle of events that take place in the Labrathon. And that is probably one of the big challenges at the…
Canada on The Rails
BY Melissa Barbeau
SHE CARRIED A POCKETKNIFE, of course. A multi-tooled contraption with a blade, but also a fork and a spoon, a corkscrew, a tiny fold-out ruler, a level, a bottle opener….
The Codfish Splitting Machine
BY Matthew Hollett
IN THE FALL 1922 ISSUE of Newfoundland Quarterly, anchored between a lament for the drowning of a local businessman and a brief history of Puerto Rico, I found a curious article titled “The Iron Splitter for Dressing Codfish.”