issue 02

Issue 02

137 pages · out 23 August 2026

Issue 02 runs 137 pages. It opens on Ed Templeton and the long practice of making work for decades, and it moves through computational photography, the rap scenes of Houston, the Bay, and New Orleans, ageing skaters, and the coastline of Aotearoa. It closes, like every issue, with Radiohead.

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Velvet Oracle Issue 02 cover

inside

  1. 12dreams from friends
  2. 14everyone is having the same dream
  3. 17the joy archives
  4. 19kate, everywherewith Kate Seljaas
  5. 20poetry promptswith Kate Seljaas
  6. 29the long practicewith Ed Templeton
  7. 37the zipper
  8. 39medicine for the chest
  9. 42the art of doing nothing
  10. 55the buildings you don't think aboutwith Gentry Colvin & Taz Watson
  11. 57ki te kore: the sweetness of the coast
  12. 65nature is litwith Dr. Krystal Monique Toney
  13. 6924 gramos de caféwith Diego Osuna Rodríguez
  14. 81careful what you wish forwith The Captain Levi
  15. 88the fixable partwith Keenan Taylor
  16. 97nobody knew your name
  17. 102death of the snapshot
  18. 109the shore remembers
  19. 114the underground was a position

Contributors to Issue 02: Kate Seljaas, Ed Templeton, French Fred, Taz Watson, Gentry Colvin, Aaria Reedy, Dr. Krystal Monique Toney, Diego Osuna Rodríguez, The Captain Levi, and Keenan Taylor.

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