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Editorial| June 01 2022 From the Editor Karen (Ren) vanMeenen Karen (Ren) vanMeenen Editor afterimageeditor@ucpress.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2022) 49 (2): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.2.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Karen (Ren) vanMeenen; From the Editor. Afterimage 1 June 2022; 49 (2): 1–2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.2.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Welcome to the June 2022 issue of Afterimage (Volume 49, no. 2). This issue begins with two engaging essays. In her wide-ranging and well-illustrated piece, Kathy Johnson Bowles explores the aesthetics of spontaneous (or “makeshift”) memorials. Through an examination of their relationship to various artistic genres and practices, the author supports the contention that these memorials, along with serving as expressions of loss, grief, and remembrance, are singular works of art. In our second essay, Holly Willis delves deeply into the work of photographer, writer, bookmaker, and Instagrammer Moyra Davey. Willis writes that in Davey’s work of autotheory the “day-to-day comes forward for consideration, not as aesthetic object so much as a record of process, movement, and exchange, an affective circuit of shared references and the communities we create among the living as well as the dead, who sustain us through thick and thin.” All of this issue’s peer-reviewed articles... You do not currently have access to this content.