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Balloons | Desiree McClellan

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 Photography: Oskar Gyllensward

We interviewed illustrator Julianna Swaney in Issue 8.

“My mother read to me all the time when I was little and those are some of my best and clearest memories. I was an only child and spent a lot of time playing alone, so I would make up lots of stories by myself. Fairy tales always brought up strange feelings in me, a mixture of fear and comfort. I think I understood the world in a different way when I was little. The strangeness of things like talking animals and endless forests totally made sense to me. I’m trying to capture that feeling I got back then in my drawings, even if the world looks very different to me now.”

Indigo | Artist: Becca Stadtlander

mounts:

Guim Tió & Amaia Arrazola (by Chamo San /// illustration)

mounts:

by Andre Petterson.

Photography: Yann Faucher

In Issue 8 Rosanna Durham asked people about their tattoos.

Mengxi: When I was a kid, I lived in the countryside of northern China for three years. I can’t remember much from that time, but my mum told me a deer used to come around to our house very often and we would play with him. So the deer is a symbol of my early childhood and all the faded memories.

Photographer: Nagano Toyokazu

In Issue 8 Lisa Jarmin spent a day obeying a two-year-old’s every word.

“I’ve got a brilliant idea now,” he said. This was worrying - his last ‘brilliant idea’ involved trying to pop a piece of bubble wrap between his bum cheeks. “Let’s have ice cream!”

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Photographer: Stefany Alves

In Issue 8 we discussed our secret crushes.

“At school I fancied the head boy. Harbouring a crush on him was a team sport: half my class shared the infatuation. “I really fancy you,” I told him one day after lunch, all heart in mouth, hair in ponytail and skin decorated not with make-up but with acne. “That’s so nice of you,” he said, and then after a pause added, “We don’t even know each other.” Despite his polite put-down, it felt good to be a spokesman for my heart.” - Rosanna Durham