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Joshua Santospirito

A panel from Joshua Santospirito’s Islands and Ships (which is an excerpt from his work Swallows Part Two). A volcano; a swallow hopping from island to island; a swallow transforming into a plane, then a ship, then an anchor.

By the Guest Editor: Islands and Ships

Joshua Santospirito, Island, Issue 157

This special graphic edition of The Circular was brought to you by Joshua Santospirito. In closing, we’d like to share his piece on making sense of his and his family’s place among the islands and continents of their migrations past and present.

I contemplated family I’d never known. How can I track them across space? And across time? Also. I’ve been thinking I’m not certain…that islands are like ships at all. If flitting from place to place is your normal state then perhaps moving from continent to continent is easier for you.

Ships are like birds
Islands are like nests

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