The city moves fast. People are always on the go. No one stops and takes a breath, except for those who light up. Who are the suckers?
No.1: The City
In this issue: What is the city? The city is a place, and the city is an idea. The city is a real, and the city is a metaphor. The inaugural issue of Punctum Magazine is a meditation on the City. ...
Love + Loss
Just over a year ago, I re-met Jim at the Knitting Factory. We talked timelessly for hours on bar stools. He had a few PBRs and I found myself wondering if he was slurring. I also wondered if his friend judged me for being younger and if my friends judged him for being older. But, [...]
Growing Together
We walk everyday through the streets of NY. We travel in the subway, ride buses and trains. Around us there is thousands of stories. Somedays we walk like Newyorkers, like running a race, lost in our own world. We don’t realize who can be walking next to us. Sabrina is one of those mothers that [...]
Fallow Drift
The wind on the peninsula is a constant presence. Northeast. Northwest. Southwest. Some live by these directions. Isolation is present. Bridges are like long fingers scratching to hold on. Playland. Lenape. Irishtown. Tangible memories to some, simple words to others. Change is visible. Neglect is familiar. Time slows down in the Rockaways. It’s right there [...]
I am Light
“I am too free for society” – Ingar Aasen For the past twenty years, Ingar Aasen has lived on a communal area called Øra, Norway, in between a sanctuary for migrant birds, large industries and a garbage-recycling factory. Ingar’s belief in freedom has excluded him from participating in society in any ordinary way. He lives [...]
New York Fear Inc.
21th Century, the so called capital of the world runs fast, talks loud, shakes his hips. Communication, it is said that we are living in the era of communication but some are living in an era of fear. Isolating fear. Some media is using communication to scare us. Fear as a business. Surveillance cameras, prohibitions, [...]
Still Trying
The city is the place I would never want to leave. It is the place where things are not what they look like. It is where you are being tricked. The city is the place where love turns into fight and murder turns into dance. I depend on the city and the city depends on [...]
What Lies Underneath
This journey is based on the emotional response that Times Square initially provoked in me. It captures the inexhaustible energy of New York City through its madness, its frenetic pace and its unique diversity. All the clichés of the US drift are gathered: high consumerism, advertisement ubiquity, junk food, sex market mixed with a dense [...]
Giraffe Behind The Door
“God loved the birds and invented trees, Man loved the birds and invented cages.” – Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien Man lived in the wild before building cities – skyscrapers made with metal and glass. We built walls, set boundaries and kept the wild out. In out efforts to connect back with [...]
