No. TWO

AUGUST 2025

LETITIA QUESENBERRY

JORDAN RAMSEY ISMAIEL

SATYA BHABHA

IAN LEWANDOWSKI

SANTIAGO JOSE SANCHEZ

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Dear reader,

Though you may be convinced that the season has already passed, this is your Other Swans summer issue. We—the five artists interviewed here and myself included—have been busy in our sundry ways: painting, teaching, moving, filming, poodling, directing, dancing, writing, gallivanting, frying fish, sanding wood that needed sanding, swimming on fortunate days. I have been reading William Bronk, who wrote in his 1955 poem Midsummer: We are here. We are here. / Set this down too, as much / as if an atrocity had happened and been seen. / The earth is beautiful beyond all change.

Thank you for being here, amidst all change.

—John Brooks