Detailed view of the top of a blue, hexagonal ceramic rattle with a wooden handle, revealing the image of a line drawing of a coiled snake on the top of the rattle.

One day I will make a mace, but for now I have a mouth

Elana Mann makes protective talismans for our truth-challenged times

Detail of a book spread from Imaginary Explosions, page 35. Above black-and-white graphic of mountain topography, text reads, “This distance I arranged so you would not have so far to fall to Earth.”

Fault Lines and Fractures: A Conversation about Imaginary Explosions

Is there life after annihilation?

Color video still of performer Monique Jenkinson performing as her drag persona, Fauxnique. She wears heavy makeup, devouring an image of a hand wearing a large bracelet that appears to have been cut from a fashion magazine; magazine cutouts of other body parts are stuck to her forehead.

Diva Maw

Drag performer Fauxnique exalts in humanity, vulnerability, and decay