This issue of SAND is a fire with a slow burn. From the desolate landscape that Shane Michalik creates in “Untitled (Notes for Jack Schaefer)” – a country so dry it feels as if the whole thing is about to go up in flames – to Olivia Parkes’ layered artwork, where each calm façade contains a secret fire threatening to erupt, the pieces in Issue 8 ask: How hot does it need to be before the world begins to burn?
