Flat Out Issue 3 Smalltime Books Anna Bates and Peter Maxwell

Anna Bates and Peter Maxwell

trees are cocooned into sculptures

The resulting images offer a rare glimpse into this subculture

Her background in sociology informs how she thinks about her artwork: it’s about the relationship between culture and fashion

Flat Out Issue 3 Smalltime Books Anna Bates and Peter MaxwellBased in Chicago Flat Out is a bi annual print magazine focused on architectural criticism. Through recurring, fictional characters, issues, exposs, conversations and letters surrounding architecture and the built environment are teased out and deconstructed. Flat Out 3 plots an escape from the incessant demands and feedback loops of the present, calling forward alternative futures via flat earth conspiracy theories, productive working relationships,