In between her many travels, Nina Katchadourian sent us a missive in the form of an answer to a question. The image shown above, A Day at the Beach, 2001, is from a series entitled Sorting Shark as part of the Sorted Books project Katchadourian has been working on for several years. Like the rest of the contributors to Mold: Ebb, Katchadourian joined us last October on S/Y Shearwater for the Re-Current event. She wrote a special sea shanty and had all of us onboard perform it

Hannah Whitaker, one of our six contributors to Mold: Ebb, sat down with us (ie. graciously returned our email request) to answer a few questions. If you're in NYC this summer, Whitaker is currently participating in a terrific group show at Taymour Grahne-on view until 6 September. You can see more of her work here. You admirably wear many hats in your artistic practice. Do you see a connection between the work you do commercially, for example the recent portraits you shot fo