Spike Art Magazine #88

For our Summer 2026 issue, amid SPIRITUALITYs current resurgence, Spike asked: What are people reaching for beyond what can be measured? The answers are eclectic, emphatic, and most of all personal: an essay about the human voices part in the divine; portraits of mystic artists Lee Scratch Perry, Santiago Yahuarcani, and Natasha Tontey; a psychoanalytic look at Renaissance paintings body of Christ; a spiritual history of perfumes; a soulful reading of Americas perhaps greatest living author, Joy Williams; queries of Gen Zs search for God, the disappearance of atheism, and a new form of contemplation; and lifestyle recommendations to purge the soul, sometimes devilishly. Plus, some backpage words of wisdom: Devotion and humiliation are holy. Feat. Johanna Hedva, Lee Scratch Perry, Isis Semaj-Hall, Santiago Yahuarcani & Miguel A. Lpez, Natasha Tontey & Riar Rizaldi, Lamorna Ash, Steven Phillips-Horst, Aodhan Madden, Patrick McGraw, Joy Williams, Jamieson Webster, Shana Moulton, Fabian Schneich, Mark Leckey & Martin McGeown, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Nicolas Bourriaud, the memory of Koyo Kouoh, Jesus Christ, Tea Hai-Vlahovi, and more!