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T he Palanca-winning art critic recounts her path from writing to running a bookstore and shares some wisdom on how to engage with difficult topics through art. Upon closer inspection, I notice that the sign sits behind glass, revealing the inside of a quadrangle room. On one wall, twelve photographs are spaced out in a meditative rhythm.

On another wall, floor-to-ceiling shelves carry rows of books, a few houseplants, and framed prints. Their inventory includes paperbacks from independent and commercial publishers, editioned artist books, and artworks. Most importantly, Stuart Santigo shares some wisdom on how to engage with difficult topics through art.

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I was an art critic and Oliver worked with galleries around the same stretch that I was writing about art. We moved around the same circles in the literary and art worlds. When we collaborated on that—he as the designer and I as a producer of the book—we realized we wanted to do the same things. We wanted to make the same books and we liked the same authors.

But also, we wanted to see if there was a model we could try for bookmaking, publishing, and writing that was more fair for those involved.

Bio: Katrina Stuart Santiago is an independent writer of the essay in its various permutations, from art reviews, cultural criticism, and popular iconographies, to political commentary and opinion, Missing: married.

We both come from the independent and marginal self-publishing space. We wanted to find a halfway point between that and mainstream publishing. When we decided to do the bookshop, the space came to us. Oliver was just walking down the street and found it. He was just walking through the park because he lives nearby.