RQ Vol. 3 // Issue 1 // THE WILDS
RQ Vol. 3 // Issue 1 // THE WILDS
THE WILDS
As we begin to reopen, how are we experiencing art? Is going to a museum going to be like the first time? Bodies. Landscapes. A fractured populace, and an unknown future. Far-flung locales and internal exploration. The wilds await.
THE WILDS
OPENING SALVO
“Girls Gone Wild” // Editor’s Notes // by Heather Shayne Blakeslee
STREETVIEW
Recommendation /// The Good Goods /// “A New View – Camden” is a site-specific art installation that reclaims land from dumpers and uses recycled materials.
Destinations /// Special Places /// Reconnecting with the wilds of Tinicum, and a reminder that it was almost lost to development.
Constellations /// Guiding Lights /// Sea moss emerges from the murky depths of the ocean to feed and nourish, and has fueled commerce for centuries.
ART & IDEAS
Exploration /// ‘Carrying a Torch in the Wilds” /// In its only U.S. appearance, Soutine / de Kooning showcases paintings of these two modern icons in dialogue with one another across decades, focusing on abstract portraiture, landscape, and portraiture-as-landscape. A third artist should be entered into that conversation: breakout painter and Philadelphian Jonathan Lyndon Chase. Exploration by Contributing Editor Jared Michael Lowe.
Poetry /// ‘This Strange Order’ /// Poetry Editor Joshua Mehigan explores two versions of nature, and our own nature, in poems by William Cowper and Mary Meriam.
Creative Nonfiction /// ‘Rites of Passage’ /// Jacquelyn Jordan reflects on her former daily routine in a Philadelphia Public School, and what or who exactly the chain-link fences and padlocks are protecting students from.
Essay /// ‘Human Frailty Comes to Roost”’ /// What happens when you’ve decided to give an animal a dignified end, and don’t succeed? Reflections on homesteading and the animals that feed us, by Sarah Hartman-Caverly.
Connection /// “Spider in His Peaceable Kingdom” /// A rower on the Schuylkill River encounters a fellow traveler who lives in an encampment on the river. A conversation—and a painting—results.
SWITCHBACKS
Essay /// ‘People Mountains Majesty: Nature in the Age of Instagram’ /// Writer L. Lu has traveled around the world, but now questions the imperative to catalog our experiences in social media posts, and what environmental impact these trips have on wild spaces. Is it better to be in the moment, and cultivate community at home? Photos by Matt Weed.
On the Cover: “Soapy Shower” by Jonathan Lyndon Chase, 2020
Spray foam, acrylic, marker, watercolor on cotton sateen
24” h x 18” w