The first issue of The September Issues and I was asked by the editor and photographer Mary Rozzi to create a visual response for their pages.
The September Issues gives women creatives the opportunity to express themselves freely, explore their identities, and build a community without any constraints—a place where art, beauty, fashion, and topical issues can be discussed from a purely feminine perspective; a community that reflects the diversity and power of global femininity. The magazine aims to share ideas of identity, discover ritual and ceremony; celebrate and champion women pioneers of the past and present, and those yet to come—exchanging the story of women’s lives through visual and intellectual vocabularies.
Politically, the world is fragmented. Recent events have demonstrated that change is most definitely the only thing we can be sure of in this moment. The September Issues want to be an active part of that change. We want to empower women by celebrating their achievements, and strive for the creation of an influential voice of equality in our future society.
There was no brief. It was a magazine completed by women about women. A speculative tribe, linked invisibly by one common thread. I chose to continue the series of photographs shown at The Stanley Picker Gallery in The Liquid Game that follows the objects of and close to the earth as symbols and representations of the body. A codified place. Future memories. Abstract resistance. And this was the text to accompany the two images.