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Issue 64 changing patterns

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Issue 64

Changing Patterns

A Curated Collection of Work by Writers and Artists

This open call invited artists, writers, and makers to consider change, both personal and collective. What does it mean to shift, to adapt, to reconfigure ourselves and the worlds we inhabit? Can we loosen the grip of performativity, the scripts and masks that are written for us by culture, tradition, and expectation?

Michel Foucault once remarked that “Power is everywhere.” It flows through us as much as around us, we participate in it, reproduce it, resist it, and are shaped by it. From birth, we are entangled in systems of knowledge and control: schools, institutions, laws, communities, and the seemingly natural "norms" that bind us. These patterns run deep, structuring how we see ourselves and how others see us.

Yet, the question remains: within such structures, how much freedom is possible? Can we ever truly slip the net, or do we only shift its weave? Perhaps change is not a clean escape, but a re-patterning, subtle mutations, ruptures, and improvisations within the grid of power.

This issue of Changing Patterns gathers responses to these questions: works that search for possibility, that imagine breaks and deviations, that map out the delicate balance between constraint and transformation.The Editors

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This month’s feature is Artist

Blair Martin Cahill


This issue’s resident creatives include our Graphic novel bookworm Mildred Burchette-Vass, critical art writer Michaela Hall, our wordsmith poet Peter Devonald, and our editors and creators Nichola and Jenna

!! Calling Artists & Writers!!

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The next open call for Issue 65 is Themed

Memorabilia

 HAUS-A-REST is now accepting submissions for our next issue of the online zine and our Instagram gallery. We welcome work in any form—visual art, photography, digital media, collage, painting, sound pieces, video stills, poetry, essays, fragments of text, short fiction, experimental writing, and beyond.


For this open call, we are seeking art and writing that explores this theme links below.

 Follow this link to enter our next free call out …

Feel free to get in touch via the form below with your Ideas & Questions.

 
 
// OPEN CALL - Issue 65 - Memorabilia // HAUS-A-REST is now accepting submissions for our next issue of the online zine and our Instagram gallery. We welcome work in any form—visual art, photography, digital media, collage, painting, sound pie
// OPEN CALL - Issue 65 - Memorabilia // HAUS-A-REST is now accepting submissions for our next issue of the online zine and our Instagram gallery. We welcome work in any form—visual art, photography, digital media, collage, painting, sound pieces, video stills, poetry, essays, fragments of text, short fiction, experimental writing, and beyond. We welcome work in any form—visual art, photography, digital media, collage, painting, sound pieces, video stills, poetry, essays, fragments of text, short fiction, experimental writing, and beyond. Memorabilia are not only objects—concert tickets, photographs, letters, keepsakes—but also fragments of memory, gestures, words, and feelings that we cling to, reimagine, or transform. For artists and creative thinkers, memorabilia often becomes raw material: the ephemera that bridges past and present, personal and collective history, lived experience and artistic practice. In times of constant digital turnover, memorabilia challenges us to think about what we hold onto, what we archive, and how we reframe personal or cultural histories through creative practice. From nostalgia to critical reflection, from intimate souvenirs to ironic collectables, this theme opens a wide space for interpretation. We invite artists and writers to send us works that explore memorabilia in any sense—whether material, emotional, digital, or imagined. To apply head to www.haus-a-rest.com to the opportunities page. Closes: 5.10.2025 Image courtesy of @jennafoxartist #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #archives #memorabilia , including visual art, photography, digital media, collage, painting, sound pieces, video stills, poetry, essays, fragments of text, short fiction, experimental writing, and more @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns is now LIVE // “Changing Patterns" invited work that engaged with the concepts of whether it is possible to change or adapt ourselves and others, and break free from performativity and the discourse that su
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns is now LIVE // “Changing Patterns" invited work that engaged with the concepts of whether it is possible to change or adapt ourselves and others, and break free from performativity and the discourse that surrounds us. Michel Foucault stated that "Power is everywhere", and that we are part of the discourse, influence it and are influenced by it. If we are entrenched within knowledge systems that affect us from birth, through our schools, institutions, laws, communities and societal 'norms', then is it possible to break free and change our pattern? How much wiggle room do we have if we are intrinsic to the power structures we live within? The exhibition and written pieces explore this theme www.haus-a-rest.com Our featured artist is Blair Martin Cahill @blairmcahill Image courtesy of @jennafoxartist #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Michaela Hall @michaela_hall_artist Do it with Jest’ (2024) Analog collage  ‘Do it with Jest’ is an exploration of our changing and fluid identities and how we often present ourse
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Michaela Hall @michaela_hall_artist Do it with Jest’ (2024) Analog collage  ‘Do it with Jest’ is an exploration of our changing and fluid identities and how we often present ourselves in differing ways or think differently in different situations while still remaining fully ourselves.  It’s the exploration of things not being black and white and straightforward but full of complexities and change. Full of camouflages that are bold and bright, clashing and juxtaposing yet add to a whole image. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Nadia Kissel @kisselevanadia Description: In “Stripped”, the canvas becomes more than a surface, it becomes a site of transformation. Through acts of removal rather than addition, the work une
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Nadia Kissel @kisselevanadia Description: In “Stripped”, the canvas becomes more than a surface, it becomes a site of transformation. Through acts of removal rather than addition, the work unearths what was once buried beneath layers of time, memory, and cultural displacement. This is not just painting, it’s a quiet rebellion against the pressure to present identity in fixed, palatable terms. Having moved through Russian, African, and European contexts, I carry within me a geography that is anything but linear. These inherited landscapes often contradict, collide, and coexist. Rather than resolving them, my work sits within the tension. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist name Obiaje Andrew Ejiga @obiajes_.art Description: Lin is a mixed-media work combining oil paint and textiles, inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ theory of Double Consciousness. The piece explores themes o
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist name Obiaje Andrew Ejiga @obiajes_.art Description: Lin is a mixed-media work combining oil paint and textiles, inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ theory of Double Consciousness. The piece explores themes of code-switching, assimilation, duality, and intersection. Much like Changing Patterns, it asks whether we can adapt ourselves and others, and whether it is possible to break free from performativity and the discourse that surrounds us. The work reflects on how individuals juggle society’s perception of them against their own self-perception, presenting a duality of identity expressed as both traditional and modern. It challenges the viewer to consider: which version of the self is authentic, which is constructed, and whether the ‘true’ self is one we have always known or one shaped—and perhaps predetermined—by society. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Fumika Tani @fumikasuri https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/RJnegicqMhrOk TSUGI: Everyday Dyes – Avocado & Coffee Description: Patterns change when materials, techniques and daily habits shi
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Fumika Tani @fumikasuri https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/RJnegicqMhrOk TSUGI: Everyday Dyes – Avocado & Coffee Description: Patterns change when materials, techniques and daily habits shift. TSUGI—meaning “to join, to patch, to inherit”—reimagines kasuri (Japanese ikat) through those changing conditions. Historically, kasuri coloured the everyday clothing of ordinary people with indigo: abundant, inexpensive, and tied to regional identity. This work asks what our “ordinary” materials are today. Handwoven at kimono width in British wool, the piece is dyed with avocado stones and coffee grounds collected from daily life. By turning food waste into colour, the textile links ecological practice with a contemporary sense of place, translating kasuri into a UK context. Japanese, twill in Britain—the same weaving technology has evolved in distant traditions, making those parallels visible in the textile. By transforming overlooked waste into colour and re-weaving historical motifs, TSUGI proposes that tradition is sustained not by replication but by relevance. It maps changing patterns of material, technique and identity, offering a model for how endangered craft can adapt—grounded in local resources yet speaking across cultures. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Cheng Xie @galileojade No One Asked, I’m Still Frying Description This project begins with a quiet, often overlooked desire—“No one ever asks me how I like fried eggs.” Through the
// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Cheng Xie @galileojade No One Asked, I’m Still Frying Description This project begins with a quiet, often overlooked desire—“No one ever asks me how I like fried eggs.” Through the repeated documentation of eggs from my daily meals, it responds to the persistent, reductive questions I face in social settings about my Asian identity. These seemingly identical yet subtly different eggs reveal an emotional space somewhere between comfort and obsession, and invite a deeper attention to the individual experiences, quiet differences, and longing to be truly understood that each image quietly carries. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// OPEN CALL - Issue 65 - Memorabilia // HAUS-A-REST is now accepting submissions for our next issue of the online zine and our Instagram gallery. We welcome work in any form—visual art, photography, digital media, collage, painting, sound pie // Issue 64 - Changing Patterns is now LIVE // “Changing Patterns" invited work that engaged with the concepts of whether it is possible to change or adapt ourselves and others, and break free from performativity and the discourse that su // Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Michaela Hall @michaela_hall_artist Do it with Jest’ (2024) Analog collage  ‘Do it with Jest’ is an exploration of our changing and fluid identities and how we often present ourse // Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Nadia Kissel @kisselevanadia Description: In “Stripped”, the canvas becomes more than a surface, it becomes a site of transformation. Through acts of removal rather than addition, the work une // Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist name Obiaje Andrew Ejiga @obiajes_.art Description: Lin is a mixed-media work combining oil paint and textiles, inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ theory of Double Consciousness. The piece explores themes o // Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Fumika Tani @fumikasuri https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/RJnegicqMhrOk TSUGI: Everyday Dyes – Avocado & Coffee Description: Patterns change when materials, techniques and daily habits shi // Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Cheng Xie @galileojade No One Asked, I’m Still Frying Description This project begins with a quiet, often overlooked desire—“No one ever asks me how I like fried eggs.” Through the