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PRINT’S NOT DEAD. JUST LOST.
On the release of Homemade Magazine: Volume 002.
Ever tried to imagine where your misplaced stuff goes without you? Or discovered parts of yourself you feared may not be there? Or landed on something you never knew you’d always been searching for?
Well, today, you’ve stumbled upon exactly that: The latest addition to The Combine’s budding magazine stand, Homemade Vol. 002: Lost and Found is a collective tribute to both elusive categories-- the lost and the found-- as interpreted by artists from in and around our creative community.
Published in late-2024 after a year’s labour of love, the 140-odd page arts and culture periodical is sure to add some heft to any coffee table– and is available for you to order right now. Like Homemade Vol. 001, it contains a potent mix of fiction, photography, illustration, design, sculpture, essays, poetry, interview, humour, and more. And, this time, readers can also look out for audio and augmented-reality features, among other embodiments of this issue’s timeless theme.
If you joined us at The Combine in November when we celebrated its launch, you’d have seen some of these features blown out to mind-bending proportions and dimensions. For example, our dedicated contributors spent weeks leading up to the launch, wrestling with papier-mâché, painting, and programming to cook up creations like this monster. (Behold in terror its noodley appendage). But putting it on display is only part of the fun.
Making– the loving resurrection of lost arts and crafts– is essential to the nature of a homemade magazine. In the same way, the launch party meant more than just a chance to ogle the artwork. Beyond weaving together a beautifully finished product, it's also a project of drawing people together from the fringes of a big creative orbit into one living, breathing space.
Contributors from across the magazine’s table of contents, who’d each created or curated a piece of its final form got to connect face-to-face, many for the first time. For one night, we were transported into a strange, shared world they’d been creating together all along. And now the team behind it is sharing that world even further.
The pages of Homemade Vol. 002 hold a little something for everybody. Because everybody knows the human experience of losing things— whether big, small, intangible, or irreplaceable. Of course, we can’t promise this issue will reunite you with any missing or stolen articles. But you might just find a new way of looking at them.