Carnation Vol. 3 (Fire)
Carnation is a submission-based, self-published zine that shares artwork and writing created through a lens of diaspora and displacement by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of colour). Based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory, Carnation was established as a collaboration between artists and friends Christina Hajjar, Luther Konadu, and Mariana Muñoz Gomez.
In this issue: Molotov cocktails. Altars. Vigils. Fire incites action and passion in the face of destruction and injustice. Fire as in anger; fire as in taking refuge; fire as in escaping war. Fire as in too hot to touch and too thick to see through the smoke—a smoke that once cleared, reveals burnt flags, burnt bridges, and the skeletal remains of colonial institutions.
Fire is the beginning and the end, and can blur the distinction between these stages. When the earth expels lava and forms new land, does this cycle have an ending? Can we mark its beginning? Fire can mark finality with perceived definitiveness: a wildfire may wipe a land barren, yet be found to continue months later as a winter burn. Even in its finality, fire can prompt regeneration as the land responds to its dangerous qualities in brilliant ways.
Carnation, Vol. 3 (Fire) includes artwork and writing on themes of destruction, passion, ritual, resistance, and transformation.
Winnipeg, Manitoba; 190mm x 240mm; 101 pages; Gold foil detailing!