JULY 2025 FEATURES
San Francisco local Eric Joyner is a lifelong master artist known for his fantastical dreamscapes where wires meet wonders. His journey from drawing in kindergarten to working in commercial design post art school propelled him to the independent artist that he is today. And most importantly, his signature subject — robots and donuts.
Though he paints what entertains him, part of his mission is to spread joy to others and provide an oasis with his works through a lens of comedy, fantasy and absurdity. But at the core of these whimsical robots, sweet baked goods, iconic monsters and nostalgic characters is the essence of what it means to be human — our search for belonging, for being understood, our inherent desire to find meaning in life as we know it.
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In the mid-1990s, Mother Superior Ruckus ran a convent-slash-rec-center where troubled kids learned scripture, how to properly pronounce “RZA,” and how to believe in themselves. Just like Wu-Tang, she is for the children. She wore a massive gold Wu-Tang chain over her habit to show the kids she was the coolest nun in the neighborhood.
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Last year, when my life was falling apart, my friends let me talk for hours about my problems. Now that things are going really well in my life, no one wants to hear about that shit.
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Perhaps the next time we visit the zoo, we should spend some time before the bars of the ape enclosure and beg their opinion on the West Bank, where their more advanced relatives murder women and children and the elderly by the score over Bronze Age myths to prove whose god is holier by the number of holes shot into hospitals.
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Video collage by Jonny DeStefano | Featured artists: Peter Kornowski • Ryane Rose • Ray Young Chu • Jack Estenssoro • Mark Mothersbaugh • Jorge Mascarenhas • Derek Knierim • Jash Tracey • Jason White