Correspondence
A few things people keep asking before they send something in.
There's no submissions form on this site, which means most of what lands in the inbox starts with a question. Rather than answer the same three things over and over, we wrote them down here.
What actually gets used?
Process, not products. Work-in-progress, studio detail, the mess in between — that's what tends to fit. A photo of a finished piece on a white wall usually doesn't, and we'll say so plainly if you send one.
How long does it take?
There's no queue in the usual sense. Some things run within weeks, others sit for a season before they fit an entry — that's just the pace of the journal, not a judgment on what was sent.
Will you edit what I send?
Lightly, if at all. We trim, we don't rewrite. If something needs heavy editing to make sense on its own, that's usually a sign it isn't quite ready rather than something for us to fix on your behalf.
Do you credit people?
By first name, sometimes with a city or studio. Staying unnamed is also fine — a fair number of entries over the years have run with no byline at all.
From last season
Someone sent a set of photos of a palette left out over a long weekend — paint gone stiff and cracked in the wells. It never became its own entry, but it shaped how we thought about the material notes for a while. That happens more than the archive shows.
No contact form here, on purpose — it keeps the inbox slower and more deliberate. Ways to reach the people behind the journal are listed on the archive page.