Wealth fuels sprawl. It can also buy a false sense of being away, guarded from reality. In one such fictional … More
Author: Jamie Atherton
Jay Simpson
I found a weighty, rectangular stone about one meter long and half a meter tall and thick. Marina saw me … More
beach holiday in indonesia by Oscar Gaynor
a grain of sand meets another rolling in a swell: plom plom plom tink plom plom plom whoosh. beaches are … More
Euan Macdonald
Volcano, 2008, single-channel projection (still). Originally published in Failed States issue no.1: island, September 2017. Photograph courtesy of the artist … More
Jasleen Kaur
A thing that was a thing that was a thing, 2017, porcelain casts of kaolin* rock, each covered in a digital … More
Loomings by Sam Williams
This body will become an island. These bones will fracture and erode to sand; and this flesh will float in … More
TGI Friday by Paul Clinton
Can one desire foreign islands and ‘the other’ without falling into the trap of exoticism? Michel Tournier’s 1967 novel Vendredi (Friday) offers … More
