Le bateau ivre is a poem by the French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. It’s famous, but I didn’t know it before Martin Essl’s book of the same name, so I can’t claim to know why. It’s about a boat that becomes…| c4 journal
I always think of Jean-Vincent Simonet’s work in verbs. It seems easier that way, and how else do you talk about photographs that make it feel like you’re tripping (a verb) on mushrooms?| c4 journal
“Evans’s subway photographs of 1938-41 are a bundle of contradictions. They describe people as individuals, and in that fundamental sense the pictures are portraits. But each person is presented as a…| c4 journal
In her essay ‘Should Artists Shop or Stop Shopping’, writer Sheila Heti describes one of her shopping lists: “a spiralizer, running shoes, vitamins, books, a pregnancy test, white t-shirts…| c4 journal