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Young man in a corridor washed in red emergency light, exhaling smoke, pale shirt, eyes closed

The corridor has decided to be red. There is a fixture above him doing this on purpose, and the longer we look the more the red stops feeling like color and starts feeling like temperature.

Eyes closed, jaw soft, smoke leaving the mouth without urgency. The shirt is pale and is taking the red and giving it back to us as something close to skin.

We picked this for the cover because it answers the magazine in a single look. Generated. Curated. Felt.

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