ISSUES
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ISSUES ✯
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ARCHIVE / a constellation of fragments, a chorus of strange bright voices / a celebration of what we’ve gathered, lost, and carried forward / memory breathing through paper, word, photograph, scar, sound (2 year NGC anniversary edition)
prompt circa November 2025
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RITUAL. Here we ask: what are the ceremonies you build for yourself? What offerings, what repetitions, what strange little dances shape your days into myth?
prompt circa October 2025
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EROTICISM… not sex, but the charge around it; the filament between body, mind, symbol…
prompt circa September 2025
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✯ FIND WONDERLAND ISSUE HERE ✯
C’mon, Alice, you know this one. WONDERLAND: A land or place full of wonderful things. WHAT WILL YOU FIND DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE?
prompt circa August 2025
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DELIRIUM… a disturbed state of mind or consciousness… especially an acute, transient condition associated with fever/intoxication… WRITE FROM THE FEVER, NOT THE CURE
prompt circa July 2025
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HOMESICK… a longing with no coordinates, a bruise shaped like a house.
prompt circa June 2025
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SPIRAL… A SHAPE, A DANCE, A PROPHECY. TAKE ME ON YOUR CONTINUOUS PATH. TELL ME: WHERE DOES IT END, WHERE DOES IT BEGIN?
prompt circa May 2025
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FOLKLORE is the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth.
prompt circa April 2025
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A simpleton, a jester, a vessel of absurdity. THE FOOL is mocked, yet often free in ways the wise are not. He stumbles, he laughs, he risks. Whether foolhardy or fearless, he is a creature of chaos, dancing on the knife-edge of wisdom.
prompt circa March 2025
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✯ FIND FOLIE À DEUX ISSUE HERE ✯
FOLIE À DEUX…MADNESS OF TWO… A SHARED DELUSION OR PSYCHOSIS BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE IN CLOSE ASSOCIATION.
prompt circa February 2025
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✯ FIND DEAR DIARY ISSUE HERE ✯
DEAR DIARY… THE ONLY CONFINEMENT OF THIS PROMPT IS EACH SUBMISSION MUST PERTAIN TO THE FORMAT OF A DIARY ENTRY. THINK UNTRADITIONALLY.
prompt circa January 2025
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PARACOSM: a detailed imaginary world constructed in one’s mind, often in childhood, of infinite fantasy.
prompt circa November 2024
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✯ FIND MELANCHOLIA ISSUE HERE ✯
MELANCHOLIA: THAT GAPING HOLE BENEATH YOUR RIBS, IN YOUR DIAPHRAGM, NO, JUST BELOW IT - THAT CREVICE, THAT LABYRINTH OF NOTHINGNESS, THAT FESTERING AND WEEPING WOUND WITH NO APPARENT GASH, NO EXIT WOUND, AND INHERENTLY, NO ESCAPE.
prompt circa October 2024
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✯ FIND PEN VERSUS SWORD ISSUE HERE ✯
PEN VERSUS SWORD / “Pens do not do battle, nor swords poetry. Mighty is the hand that knows when to pick up the pen, or pick up the sword.”
prompt circa September 2024
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✯ FIND PLATONIC INTIMACY ISSUE HERE ✯
PLATONIC INTIMACY; the foundation that harbours deep and affectionate connections that are not based on or centred around romance or eroticism. A homage to friendship.
prompt circa August 2024
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✯ FIND CONFESSION ISSUE HERE ✯
CONFESSION / noun / a disclosure of one's sins in the sacrament of reconciliation. Or, in Nowhere Girl terms: an exercise in artistic exhibitionism. CONFESS TO ME. CONFESS TO THE WORLD.
prompt circa July 2024
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✯ FIND SURREALISM ISSUE HERE ✯
SURREALISM was a 20th century avant-garde literary, philosophical and artistic movement which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind - championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.
prompt circa June 2024
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PRIMEVAL, adjective, of or belonging to the first ages. If you strip human beings/the planet/the universe/existence as we know it back to its primeval core, what will you find? What is left? What remains the same? For what is our purpose, the crux of our very being?
prompt circa May 2024
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✯ FIND ARTIST & MUSE ISSUE HERE ✯
ARTIST & MUSE / an exploration on the complex and controversial relationship between the artist and the muse / the creator and the creation / the inspired and the inspiration.
prompt circa April 2024
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RUNAWAY / noun / a person who has escaped or abandoned something, somewhere, someone. Think: leaving it all behind and not looking back.
prompt circa March 2024
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✯ FIND APOCALYPSE ISSUE HERE ✯
The complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation… APOCALYPSE, an ode to the end of the world.
prompt circa February 2024
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✯ FIND BILLET-DOUX ISSUE HERE ✯
BILLET DOUX / noun, French / a love letter or sweet note. Love (or maybe not-love, or something in between), sealed with a kiss and wrapped in a bow and tucked in a pretty little letter.
prompt circa January 2024
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✯ FIND FAUSTIAN BARGAIN ISSUE HERE ✯
To strike a FAUSTIAN BARGAIN is to be willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge or power. Faust, in Goethe’s legend, traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.
prompt circa December 2023
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OUROBOROS / noun / a circular symbol that depicts a snake or dragon devouring its own tail and that is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth.
prompt circa November 2023