October 2025 update
We’ve decided to make a second issue of our “book-a-zine!” Watch this space for updates. Meanwhile, our first issue, crafted in Porto, Portugal (can you spot our title there on those painted Porto doors?) and printed in Lithuania, can now be experienced online: Immerse yourself in bejeweled botanical art, Ugandan fashion, old books riddled with beautiful holes, and essays about wandering lonely streets, mending socks, and witchiness. (Readable on a phone, but much better on a computer!)
About Us
Alex Hart (aka Bella Tristan) is a self-taught multicreative, learning (and un-learning) as she goes. If it's something that uses her hands — writing, cutting & pasting, knitting, treasure-hunting, arranging flowers, massaging, sandwich-making, hair-cutting, yo-yo'ing, high-fiving — she's there and up to her elbows in concentrated work. Or should we call it play? Motto: Where possible, unplug that dubious brain. Also: Trust, and go on hoping (Edward Lear). Some of her personal gurus: Vivienne Westwood, Beatrix Potter, Alexander Calder, Yayoi Kusama, Alice Neel, Maurice Sendak, Louise Bourgeois, Amy Sedaris, Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Pee Wee Herman I mean Paul Reubens, Reggie Watts............!!!Jon Lackman is a journalist and the author of the (mostly) nonfiction graphic novel The Woman With Fifty Faces, about the unjustly forgotten artist’s model / con artist Maria Lani. He’s covered politics, science, and the arts for Harper's, The New Yorker, Slate, and Wired. He completed a PhD in art history from NYU and a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. He's represented by Mary Krienke of Sterling Lord Literistic. Currently at work on two books, one on why we shouldn’t force kids to go to school and another on the underappreciated potential for sport to transform the lives of adults.