The Iskra Journal

art | politics | community | connection

Category: Art and Alchemy

  • How many times have I heard someone say I don’t follow politics, it’s got nothing to do with me—? I always want to ask these people what they think “politics” is. My definition is simple: politics is people I don’t know with more power than I have making decisions that control my life or the…

  • August, more than anything, is defined by the color of grass. City lawns have turned ochre, weedy, crewcut, no longer “lawn” so much as a prickly protectorate embedded with the swords of dandelions, across which no one dare walk barefoot. It is a landscape of exhaustion, where play is reduced to dereliction and the toys…