Essay

A Brief Examination of Age as a theme in Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun

A Brief Examination of Age as a theme in Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun

What is your approach to ageing? Are you desperately keeping the grey hairs and aches at bay or are you anticipating the embrace of a slower paced life, possibly in retirement, or faster paced life completing the bucket list. This brief look at ageing in Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun nudges at these questions.

Black Joy - An Essay by Theophina Gabriel on the culinary mapping and seasoning of joyful memories through souse

Black Joy - An Essay by Theophina Gabriel on the culinary mapping and seasoning of joyful memories through souse

“My essay uncovering the history and festivity around the dish from my mother’s eyes explores not just the celebratory joy it holds, but also the delicate ways of seasonal food preparation and preservation that are becoming increasingly lost to the diaspora”

Energy and the by-products of creativity by Richard Nattoo - Discussion Essay

Energy and the by-products of creativity by Richard Nattoo - Discussion Essay

This week’s discussion essay by visual artist Richard Nattoo dives deep into the shadows to resurface as whole—tapping into the dark and light, honouring all energies for an authentic rendering on the literal and figurative canvases with which we work. His image—An extract from Teeth Grid I—draws you visually into this conversation.