MATTE Magazine issue 57: 𝘐 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 features photographs by Leor Miller interspersed with texts by the artist and writer Linden Crawford. The work that expands, stretches, celebrates, and confuses the potential of what a body can be. With the closing of 2020, a year that individually and communally warped everyone’s lives in new and unprecedented ways, this magazine offers a pause. A moment to reflect on nature. A spiritual turn inward. A visual offering to contemplate magic. Because in the words of Terence McKenna, “You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.” ⁣
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Leor Miller is a photographer, writer, and musician from Evanston, IL currently based in New York’s Hudson Valley where she received her BA in Photography from Bard College. Using the control of staged self-portraiture and digital manipulation, as well as the element of chance that is inherent to the photographic medium, her work deals with themes of selfhood, mystical and ecstatic experience, altered states of consciousness, the Other and the unknown, and the search for meaning.⁣