Arcane - Issue #2 2024 public space Already more than a hundred

Already more than a hundred years ago

from everyone’s obsession with Dracula’s paprika to the origins of New Mexico’s signature chiles and the bloody story of nutmeg

and how can this relationship be assessed

Told through one side of an epistolary exchange

When Obiefuna’s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family’s apprentice

Arcane - Issue #2 2024 public space Already more than a hundredAware of a vibrant artistic material, Arcane is a potential space for bringing forth imagined exhibitions, artistic devices buried within minds; a landmark for unearthing materials that the concretization of reality would have diverted from our gaze or prevented from existing. By trying to give a possible space for art in its pages, Arcane has at heart to spread the word about artworks that exist, not yet or will never be. Each issue brings together