Zoetrope Magazine Spring 2021 Vol 25/#1 Jeffrey Gibson

For the design of this issue of Zoetrope: All-Story, I opened up my studio’s image database and my collections of objects and materials. I wanted to pack it all in—to allow it to mix together into an extended collage and let the edges bleed into one another. It’s all related. When I choose an image, a print, a textile, a pattern, someone to photograph, I am working toward building an archive of images and information that dismisses the narrow lane offered to those of us who are often referred to as a “minority.” I hate that word.

Let this issue of All-Story serve as a trigger for readers to imagine what it would look like if we were the majority. Let us be greater than the sum of our parts. Let us not be frightened by change. -Jeffrey Gibson