memwa
Memwa is a bi-annual magazine that explores the physicality of memory through memorabilia, found objects, and the stories they carry. Rooted in the question what makes something worth remembering?, each issue invites readers to engage with personal essays, photography, and interviews that attempt to render the intangible weight of memory into something tactile.
For the first issue of Memwa, we’re exploring Trash: as object, insult, environment, aesthetic, memory. We want the sacred and the gross, the hilarious and the heartbreaking, the things you meant to throw away and the things you didn’t. The kind you haul to the curb. The kind you date. The kind you talk when you’re winning. The kind you accidentally carry with you for years.
We’re looking for personal essays and interviews grounded in memory and tied to a physical artifact. That physical artifact or piece of ephemera should be something you can scan and send to appear alongside your piece. Think: a receipt, a broken object, a note passed in class, a photograph you ripped in half and taped back together.
We’re also looking for art of any medium. Think: obsessive photo diaries of trash, objects made anew from something that should have been thrown away, paintings made using unconventional tools, a collection of bread tags.
Click submit below for more info; we can’t wait to hear from you. -`♡´-