Spike Art Magazine #88

For our Summer 2026 issue, amid SPIRITUALITY’s current resurgence, Spike asked: What are people reaching for beyond what can be measured? The answers are eclectic, emphatic, and most of all personal: an essay about the human voice’s part in the divine; portraits of mystic artists Lee “Scratch” Perry, Santiago Yahuarcani, and Natasha Tontey; a psychoanalytic look at Renaissance painting’s body of Christ; a spiritual history of perfumes; a soulful reading of America’s perhaps greatest living author, Joy Williams; queries of Gen Z’s search for God, the disappearance of atheism, and a new form of contemplation; and lifestyle recommendations to purge the soul, sometimes devilishly. Plus, some backpage words of wisdom: “Devotion and humiliation are holy.” Feat. Johanna Hedva, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Isis Semaj-Hall, Santiago Yahuarcani & Miguel A. López, Natasha Tontey & Riar Rizaldi, Lamorna Ash, Steven Phillips-Horst, Aodhan Madden, Patrick McGraw, Joy Williams, Jamieson Webster, Shana Moulton, Fabian Schöneich, Mark Leckey & Martin McGeown, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Nicolas Bourriaud, the memory of Koyo Kouoh, Jesus Christ, Tea Hačić-Vlahović, and more!