Elastic #01
Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, which is to say that we publish visual artwork and writing that bends time and genre and perspective, blurs waking and dreaming life, magnifies the senses, multiplies and distorts the possibilities of narrative, and otherwise breaks form. The first psychedelic era was a period of radical artistic innovation and yet, in the popular imagination, "psychedelia" conjures little more than Day-Glo mandalas and contorted mushrooms. These pages conjure a truly expansive vision of psychedelic culture, bringing together a vast, diverse body of contemporary psychedelic work and paying tribute to an overlooked archive.
From the Elastic Magazine team on their inaugural issue:
Our inaugural issue is on the theme of dying, which we've interpreted widely and playfully to include all kinds of endings, all kinds of new beginnings, transitory states, portals, and processes by which the self is shattered and transformed and transcended. It contains 176 lush pages and fifty illustrious contributors, including Matthew Palladino, Aimee Bender, Venita Blackburn, Dadu Shin, Somnath Bhatt, Melissa Broder, Henry Hoke, K-Ming Chang, Samantha Hunt, Wardell Milan, Devan Shimoyama, and many, many more.
USA, 240mm x 210.5mm; 65 pages; Elastic No. 1: The Dying Issue (Spring 2025)