The Halcyon Days zines and the surreal

and the surreal

Written with Richard Layard’s characteristic clarity

Iraq surrounded by music

contemporary politics

and Tom McDonough look at the way García Torres’s work addresses ideas of failure

The Halcyon Days zines and the surrealIsabellas and Lucas images have always had a flirtatious relationship in my mind. I dont find the darkness in these images to be forced or anti something. I feel like they both get some sort of satisfaction in being visitors in someone elses past, sometimes changing it by interacting, sometimes just observing from a distance. What I had found to be vibrating in the core of these images had something to do with memory, but I cant quite remember it This