Friday Five: Sept 19

1. Martin Tomsky's laser cut woodcuts: 2. Lenka Simeckova's illustrations... slinky menace - reminiscant of Sandman covers...

3.  This week's drink is the Radical Cure from the Alchemy Bar on Carnival CruiselinesBombay Original Gin, lavender essence, fresh lime juice and Maraschino Liqueur.

Strong, floral, and sweet without being cloying. (Photo @Willhollis)

4. Seung-Hwan OH combines photos with emulsion eating bacteria... literally letting life happen to the art...

5. Warsan Shire - Ugly

Your daughter is ugly.She knows loss intimately,carries whole cities in her belly.As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.She was splintered wood and sea water.They said she reminded them of the war.On her fifteenth birthday you taught herhow to tie her hair like ropeand smoke it over burning frankincense.You made her gargle rosewaterand while she coughed, saidmacaanto girls like you shouldn’t smellof lonely or empty.You are her mother.Why did you not warn her,hold her like a rotting boatand tell her that men will not love herif she is covered in continents,if her teeth are small colonies,if her stomach is an islandif her thighs are borders?What man wants to lay downand watch the world burnin his bedroom?Your daughter’s face is a small riot,her hands are a civil war,a refugee camp behind each ear,a body littered with ugly thingsbut God,doesn’t she wearthe world well.