SplashLand Magazine

http://archive.pov.org/thirst/holy-water/ : “a pool is… a symbol of… control over the uncontrollable”...art and water have a lot in common. Control is what lots of collecting and a lot of art is about, and that’s also why this footnote is here. Narratives, visual and literary, are an exercise in control.

Dear Reader,

A heartfelt thank you for jumping into our pool without knowing what you’d find below the surface. You’ve landed in SplashLand.

https://www.printedmatter.org/ catalog/58280/ : “The alienation [inherent to interactions on the internet] is real, as a surfeit of weak ties suffocates stronger bonds, yet stronger bonds seem available only through the online tools that have diminished them.” (I’d buy this book if I were you, you’d buy this book if you were me)

SplashLand is a magazine, an independent publishing house, a string telephone between the world we create online and the world we create on paper, a space for creative expressions to be shared, printed out, and posted up. Our journey as editors began with a feeling, or several: joy, confusion, déja-vu, love, alienation, intrigue, & profusion. These feelings inspired wants: to explore together, to meet people, to have some fun, to throw parties, to be loved and to give love. SplashLand will be the bulletin board upon which these feelings and wants are gathered (submitted) and pinned (shared); our agora, our collective scrapbook, ever growing, changing and learning, our queer bookmaking hub where the digital and ephemeral planes are blurred. In the lens of our creative vision, we aim to be the conduit that brings your voices to light through a variety of mediums. SplashLand is yours and it is ours.

alienation, intrigue, & profusion. These feelings inspired wants: to explore together, to meet people, to have some fun, to throw parties, to be loved and to give love. SplashLand will be the bulletin board upon which these feelings and wants are gathered (submitted) and pinned (shared); our agora, our collective scrapbook, ever growing, changing and learning, our queer bookmaking hub where the digital and ephemeral planes are blurred. In the lens of our creative vision, we aim to be the conduit that brings your voices to light through a variety of mediums.

https://www.cjr.org /language _corner/ queer.php : queer is a queer word

SplashLand is yours and it is ours.

We are kind of fans of Old Boy’s Network / 100 anti-theses, read them here : https: //obn. org/obn /reading_ room/manifestos/ html/anti .html

We keep in mind that nothing in this world is made alone, in a vacuum. That this informs that. SplashLand is not, and will never be, ours alone. The ability to work in union, across digital and physical landscapes, drew us to the world of bookmaking in the first place. SplashLand is not an amusement park. It is not a country nor is it something to eat. Splashland, as a magazine and independent publishing house, is not something new: this part is important. SplashLand has been a labor of love informed by those who are already here and those yet to be born. Sometimes with footnotes like these, or sometimes with chocolates and love letters, we will try to pay homage to those ideas we are listening to, borrowing, and remixing. Nothing is new anymore. “New” is not the point. There is power in repetition, in practicing, in representation, in opening more space, in lifting people up over and over and over again.

But you could always go here : https://www .facebook.com/ p/Splashland-LLC-Hot-Springs-Swimming-Pool-1000647 38984369/ Read Rachel O’Dwyer’s essay in https://torquetorque .net/wp- content/uploads /ArtistsReThinking TheBlockchain.pdf this book to be convinced that digital culture wants to be free

SplashLand might feel like a little bit of everything, because it is. Sydnie, our Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, has always been interested in everything, and she means that. After being told over and over again to pick one interest they began to feel pulled in different directions, and in college found it increasingly difficult to be interested in anything at all, let alone one thing. Sydnie eventually picked photography, but quickly became unhappy and transferred to Printmaking/Bookmaking. Suddenly a whole world opened up. “You can put anything in a book” Sydnie thought, “an entire world is in there.” Lucky to be at Bennington College, where you create your own major, Sydnie graduated with a degree in Printmaking with a concentration in Bookmaking. SplashLand was born out of this journey, out of Sydnie’s interest in everything.

but quickly became unhappy and transferred to Printmaking/Bookmaking. Suddenly a whole world opened up. “You can put anything in a book” Sydnie thought, “an entire world is in there.” Lucky to be at Bennington College, where you create your own major, Sydnie graduated with a degree in Printmaking with a concentration in Bookmaking. SplashLand was born out of this journey, out of Sydnie’s interest in everything.

https://www.are.na /block /22459546 : this still matters to us

For us, art is the power to represent and remember. Art as an archival impulse and as serendipity. Images and words have the ability to take on the shape of water; art in all of its forms, like water in all of its forms, is slippery. It’s a collective force made up of uncountable discrete molecules. It is something scarce and sacred. Even so, it is something ubiquitous, something we find everywhere when we look inside and outside of ourselves. It is something to play in and to play with. It is not something to take for granted and it is not something to take seriously. It is the thing that we need, the thing that we can use as a mirror if we stand before it. We hope to fill this pool called SplashLand with you, and your art, and the collaboration and community that comes with it.

inside and outside of ourselves. It is something to play in and to play with. It is not something to take for granted and it is not something to take seriously. It is the thing that we need, the thing that we can use as a mirror if we stand before it. We hope to fill this pool called SplashLand with you, and your art, and the collaboration and community that comes with it.

Mmmm https://isea2022.isea-international.org/event/artwork-liquid-views/

And we’re taking submissions! For publication here, online, in print, or a combination. If you make things, we want to see them. From a photograph, to a poem, to a baked potato. We want to talk to you, answer your questions, and ask some back. Click here for our submission form. If you want to get in touch email us at info@splashlandmagazine.com.

form. If you want to get in touch email us at info@splashlandmagazine.com.

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cheers,

Sydnie Hyams,

Rylee Hickman,

Sarah Knight,

Clara Drimmer