Irreantum 20.1 : Daily Crises

 

The editor’s job is not just to accept the good pieces and reject the bad ones. I suppose that’s part of it, but not all good pieces are accepted, for instance, and “good” and “bad”—what do they even mean in the context of art? So the editor’s job has to be something else: to curate an issue, a collection that makes sense on its own merits. How do the pieces play together? What do they say as a group?

Sometimes making this discovery is startlingly easy. I first read all the pieces you’ll see below within a couple weeks of each other; as they eagerly joined forces to become Daily Crises, it made me wonder if there’s something going on in the zeitgeist. And just what that might be.

Anyway, everything’s great here. How are things at your house?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images by Fir0002/Flagstaffotos, PublicCo, and Neal Herbert of the Department of the Interior