{"product_id":"blue-moon-magazine-issue-11","title":"Blue Moon magazine - Issue 11","description":"\"Materiality as a conduit to the immaterial is a long-standing conundrum. We look\r\nat a flower, and see the face of God. We scrawl our names on a wall to remind\r\nourselves we were here for a fleeting moment. Pressing the keys of an organ can\r\ntransport us into ineffable realms. In this issue, we discover how the featured artists\r\nuse their concrete mediums to impart meaning, love, and transcendence.\r\nOur cover artist, Steven Shearer, uses immaculate technique in his oil paintings,\r\nmerging past, present, and future. One can make out a reference in a painting\r\nfrom the canon of the art historical past, but his portraits seem to come from\r\na timeless location, brought into the world by the now. We see love and devotion\r\nthrough the writing of Francesca Lia Block and the paintings by Joanna van Son.\r\nWe see a reverential adoration of nature in Brian Merriam’s sculptures,\r\nand iris yirei hu’s paintings.\r\n\r\nKali Malone, Molly Nilsson, and Joy Crookes take us through their production\r\nof perhaps the most direct channel into the mystical realm: music. Pablo Jomaron\r\nand Ryosuke Tanzawa lead us through the labyrinth of city infrastructure, traversing\r\nthrough tunnels and skyscrapers.\r\n\r\nLastly, there is the work of the late Noah Purifoy, whose allegiance lay with the\r\ndiscarded. The detritus of human creation, material ‘junk’. Purifoy repurposed scraps\r\nof metal in the desolate landscape of Joshua Tree, forming monuments to the sun.\r\nI am reminded of the ancient Egyptian sun god Aten, a glowing disc, hands reaching\r\ndown to the earth. Under the ruling Pharaoh Akhenaten, it was thought one only\r\nneeded to venerate the sun to achieve divine union.\r\n\r\nThe convergence in subject matter here inspires an upwards gaze. Perhaps we\r\nare searching for nourishment through the ground to make it into the sky,\r\ntravelling slowly through our traces left behind, ascending towards the sacred.\"","brand":"Antenne Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53720956567890,"sku":"AB8872","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0822\/0062\/5490\/files\/ab8872-blue-mooon-issue-11-03_7ba7458b-79a2-449e-8c30-433e7fb186e5.jpg?v=1782810934","url":"https:\/\/antennebooks.com\/fr\/products\/blue-moon-magazine-issue-11","provider":"Antenne Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}