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My Personality

                           


Welcome to My Personality, our longest issue yet. It was important to us that this issue be My Personality—not Personalities or Persona. The fact that the enunciator declares the personality as their own, asserting its presence and yet reenacting all the doubt and irony in the space between My and personality. 

In the issue Phil Davis presents ten drawings of the same image of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, a persona long imbued with the exoticism and monstrosity of pre-modern, non-Western sexuality. Davis’s economical hand renders Lugosi’s figure childlike and ambivalent. Michelle Darling’s airbrush paintings of pouty cat undies reveal disgruntled cat undies beneath, nodding to both the Wojak Mask meme and various personalities of the bedroom.

We’re over the moon to include an entire curatorial project, Internet Personality Quiz, curated by Karla Zurita, a show that follows similar questions to ours but in an altogether different style—prompting us to consider the curatorial personality itself.

This issue also features three interviews: Alex Tatarsky, Mika Kol (trustfundgoth), and Laurel Nakadate. Here, the interview form is essential, as what people project onto these artists often precedes their work, complicating the autonomy of art from its maker. My Personality can be read as a bundle of feelings pointing in various directions. Like our cover artist Evan McGraw’s calligraphy, it is a set of visual marks which ought to indicate identity—yet ultimately, you’re looking at flourishes upon flourishes, on sheets upon sheets of paper.

Kisses darling, XOXO, mwah, … from our personalities to yours— 

Ivy, Adrian, Avery, and Julian 

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