Coming together for the first time in my tenure without a prompt, the following issue nonetheless feels as though it is circling something specific, even if that something is difficult to name.
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The screenshot interrupts the flow, capturing a fleeting thought within the machinery of creation. It is a time stamp, a photograph, or an idea jotted down in a notebook. The act of capturing a thought gives a fleeting moment a platform to become something.
Each screenshot captures a moment of pause within the flow of making, a small act of noticing amid continuous motion.
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42.3 – Patterns
BlackFlash Winter 2026 “This issue marks a transition for BlackFlash. We’re sunsetting thematic framing (for now) and moving toward a less categorical way of assembling each…
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Alongside the launch of the Ender Gallery Resource Pack Pack, curators Sarah Friend, Cat Bluemke, and Jonathan Carroll reflect on Ender Gallery: an exhibition space and artist residency that took place within the game Minecraft.
From the archives
Guest Editor of BlackFlash issue 38.3, Nadia Kurd, talks to Jamelie Hassan about her past work, her influences, and how she has researched and interpreted the visual traditions found in Muslim-majority nations.
