Paradigm #4

Issue four of Image's Paradigm arrives with a cover by Jeremy Haun that feels quietly unsettling — a brooding young man peers out from a torn strip of painted imagery, his expression guarded and introspective, framed above and below by a stark black-and-white checkerboard pattern that suggests a world of sharp, disorienting contrasts. The torn-paper effect gives the composition an almost confessional intimacy, as if something hidden is being reluctantly revealed. With Matthew Cashel's story "The Stillest Hour" waiting inside, this 2002 Image series continues to promise something thoughtfully off-kilter.