issue 6
// art
Title: Hollywood Is Burning // Artist: Macaulay Woods
about the piece
| Hollywood Is Burning (Chapter whereby the Crocodiles are repulsed) 48″ x 60″, acrylic on canvas, ©Macaulay Woods 2025 Painted as the hills of the Pacific Palisades burned while tent cities in Gaza were engulfed in flames, Hollywood Is Burning holds two infernos in a single field of vision. Headlines lingered on California as images from Gaza — children running through fire, families incinerated in makeshift shelters — were censored or erased on social media. One image was indelible: a small girl, no older than three, moving alone through flames. The painting gathers these devastations into a shared atmosphere of heat, grief, and departure — thousands of souls leaving the earth at once. |
about the artist // Macaulay Woods
| Macaulay Woods is a contemporary American painter. In her recent body of work, Lazarus Ball (2024–2026), blocks of paint become narrative: biomorphic forms—the sprites that populate her canvases—enact loneliness, war, surveillance, and grief in ecosystems under pressure. |
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