We’ve all heard the postmodern war cry that nothing is original. Everything has been done, everything an appropriation. Despite this, authorship, time, and culture can impose meaningful change on even our most enduring stories… Artists across the issue model how new stories can be made from the remnants of the old ones—the familiar moving past the prosaic to become a starting place for reinvention.

Lindsay Preston Zappas
Founder & Editor-in-Chief

This issue features writing on artists Niki de Saint Phalle, Pipilotti Rist, Haena Yoo, Devin Troy Strother, Katherina Olschbaur, and more.