SHAKEN
unicorn hunter: perfect pregame fuel / sip dry sherry / aperol and lemon / shaken with rosemary / gain confidence / spend the evening with a tinder couple / (but really just lust after her)
black out days:1 booze that doesn’t taste like booze is the best / worst kind / wake up in parkville or riverside in nothing but a thong / served with a two in five chance of forgetting your bra there too
filthy love: pink and glitter until it’s not / a pleasure you wish you felt guilty for
SPIRIT-FREE
dry county: what hydrates more than water? / whatever it is / will it bring back feeling in your limbs / will it stay in your stomach during the august photoshoot you showed up to woefully hungover?
STIRRED
pawn shop heart: deeply bitter / (brace your palette) / finishes sweet to make up for it / masochists only / one second of sugar is all you’re ever gonna get
caught in the crossfade: quantity over quality liquor / pair with a lungful of smoke in a stranger’s apartment for best effect / no substitutions
manhattan: styled after cat power / drink until you don’t look at the moon tonight2
game changer: recipe varies / does not matter / blurs vision / pulls the top of your bra up above your low scoop neck tank / slides straps off shoulders / sloppy
home alone: served only to parties of one / exactly what you’d pour in your bedroom on a saturday / as such it’s also up to you to know your limits here
1 inspired by the Phantogram song of the same name
2 italicized is a lyric from the Cat Power song “Manhattan”
NAT RAUM (b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer from baltimore, md. they hold a bfa in photography and book arts and are currently a first-year mfa candidate in creative writing & publishing arts. nat is also the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press, a queer literature and art publishing space. past and upcoming publishers of their writing include Trampset, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Warning Lines Magazine, and Delicate Friend. nat is an avid fan of ambient music, the witcher 3: wild hunt, noise-cancelling headphones, and bisexual lighting, preferably all at once. natraum.com
JULIET MARTIN is an interdisciplinary artist working with handmade textile and digital media. Her work incorporates handspun and hand-dyed fibers woven with illustrations printed on fabric. In 2012 she discovered weaving on a Japanese loom and the Saori school of philosophy that insists “there are no mistakes.” By embracing that free-form process, what might be considered “mistakes” in traditional weaving encourages unique experimentation. She uses the improvisational nature of this kind of weaving to escape restrictions and rules. She challenges the function of the fiber medium. Her process focuses on aesthetics instead of rules. She cuts up and puts back together her weavings, taking something precious and recontextualizing it. By adding drawings to the weavings, a door is opened. Each illustration becomes a legend to the tapestries, refining the message of each piece. Unifying the weaving and the drawing results in a unique combination of emotion and representation. julietmartin.com
