Seven Magazine
Issue Two: Havoc | 160 Pages
Role: Co-Founder, Co-Editor, Art Director
Seven Magazine breaks out of the rigidity of corporate systems, allowing our creative processes to evolve as we do. For the second issue, our approach included an open call to artists around the globe.
We identified themes throughout the 1,200 submissions that represent a collective response to our recent history and present culture. By analyzing the visual motifs, words, and emotional implications, we created four sections of 160 pages featuring over 70 artists, photographers, and writers to chapter the narrative.
Section One: Domestic Tradition
Domestic Tradition examines our post-COVID reality, tracing how inherited roles and ideals of home, marriage, family, gender, and responsibility have been deconstructed and redefined. The shifting of these cultural norms offers an opportunity for reclaming domestic space as a site of choice, instinct, and desire rather than obligation. In hand with these new possibilities, comes confusion and uncertainty as individuality becomes a mandate.
Section Two: Nostalgic Under-development
Nostalgic Under Development positions a pressure to mature next to a desire to remain open, playful, and undefined.
Marked by decision fatigue, accelerated ambition, and the seductive efficiency of AI, our inner emotional landscapes grapple with “immaturity” as a representation of a deliberate resistance to rigid models of society.
Section Three: Natural Fantasy
Natural Fantasy explores a contemporary return to nature as retreat and rebellion. Against a backdrop of communal burnout, a new generation’s definition of success measures not by speed or accumulation but by alignment with slow rhythms. Our desire to step outside—literally and metaphorically–offers whimsy not as escapist, but as a recalibration toward sustainability.
Why wait to rest and play?
Section Four: Community Performance
Community Performance investigates community as both sanctuary and stage. To operate socially is to navigate the exposure of showing up as you are while also allowing people a role in your evolution. It is to hold the discomfort of being seen, the weight of expectation, and the confusion of boundary-setting as the necessary labor required to build relationships over time.
Community can be a sharp, sometimes painful mirror showing the gap between what we claim to value and fail to uphold–a space where self-definition is publically measured against our behavior, consistency, and care.
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