No. 26 - Summer 2022

Prepare to sink your teeth into our meatiest issue yet, inspired by the work of artist Francis Bacon who blurs the lines between man and beast. Feast your eyes on 200 pages of flesh in all its manifestations, set against a backdrop of the full spectrum of human skin tones. Fall under the spell of mythical creatures, half-man, half-beast, deities whose connection to the natural world reveals something otherworldly. See All This #26 explores our loving relationship with other animals, and is a necessary reminder that, ultimately, we are all meat.

In this issue:

- A short sci-fi story about aliens who are amazed by creatures from another planet that are made of flesh and can therefore talk and think: 'Thinking flesh! You ask me to believe in thinking flesh!' 'Yes, thinking flesh! Conscious flesh! Loving flesh. Dreaming flesh. The flesh is everything! Can you see it?'
- People who prefer a pet over a partner or child: 'About 44% of people would rather cuddle their pet than their life partner.'
- Francis Bacon and his mind possessed by animals, flesh, and the color of blood.
- Mermaids, sphinxes and centaurs — mythical and heroic human animals: 'Picasso embraced the centaur as his new avatar.'
- Partridges, pheasants and wild boars are featured in 17th-century still lifes, but what about the meat of the future?
- The sizzling celebration of skin on skin that we need to be reminded of more often these days: 'I hadn't realized how much I needed that touch, how hungry my skin was.'
- The poem The Touch by Anne Sexton
- Exhibition tips for this season
- Book tips
- The colours of the pages in this issue are inspired by Humanae, a work by artist Angélica Dass, in which she depicts human skin colours.

Double-thick, bilingual (EN-NL) issue.