Original stories, interviews, and visual essays from the Creative Collective on what helps ideas grow.
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Letter from the editor
The fifth issue of Superbloom’s zine starts with gardening, then quickly gets into the dirtier parts of creative life: bad ideas, reinvention, failure, community, and the conditions that help original work grow. It’s lush, strange, and a little feral, with essays, interviews, and visual stories from the Creative Collective.
As the editor puts it: “Investing in the people, places and things that enable ideas to grow freely in the wild feels more than fertile at this moment.”
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Jealous Much?
For comedian, actress, writer and professional cultural ranter Joanna Hausmann, no garden is too sacred to skewer. Here she tears through society’s most infamous cultivated spaces with her sharp wit, side eyes and gloriously unfiltered observations.
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Who Gets the Light?
Why some careers flourish in full sun, while others are quietly kept in the shade.
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Water Your Corpses
Terrifying musings from Michael Wolf, with artwork by Caitlin Hickey.
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Made to Bloom
Ideas. Talent. Creativity. Reinvention. So much of it depends on the environment, the people around us, the timing, the space we’re given to evolve and sometimes growth means re-rooting entirely. In this interview series, we explore this idea through the people who embody it best: creatives who’ve continued to evolve, reinvent, and flourish across different seasons of life and career.
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1-800-Flowers
Meet the botanical stewards who keep the Wild Flower Hotline ringing.
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Rare Blooms
A celebration of eccentric creative specialists, flamboyant tastemakers and niche artistic minds whose peculiar rituals, processes and perspectives reveal the beautifully strange mechanics of creative work.
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Photo Series: Mika Ninagawa
A botanical photo series by Mika Ninagawa.
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