MiCHAELMAS 2012

Mi SC.

MiSC.

Michaelmas 2012, MiSC. is back.

A publication open to students across the university, MiSC aims to provide a space to share

and document the creativity of the student body at Oxford. From poetry to photography, fine

art to short stories, MiSC is, in short, a bit of everything.

The MiSCellaneous bunch of editors:

Alex Tyndall, Lily Green and Evie Hicklin

Contributors:

Lily Green, Ieva Maniušytė, Christina Kruse, Aleks Klosk, Alex Tyndall, Beatrice Xu and

Lucinda Toole

arts.spc The hub for art at St Peter’s College, Oxford

MiSC is funded by St. Peters College Arts Fund

Hidden Spaces.

In this edition of MiSC. we’re sneaking around and looking into places we perhaps shouldn’t

be. Anyone who’s got lost one afternoon amongst Oxford’s colleges can tell you our town is

full of small alleyways, leading nowhere, but all hiding something. Anywhere you look,

whether it be in the library in the gap between two copies of Taylor’s Macroeconomics or the

curious trapdoor in the KFC on Cornmarket Street, we find hidden spaces looking to be dis-

covered and explored. But we don’t need to get our marching boots on to do it; we all hide

something within ourselves, in our own minds. Surely that’s a hidden space as much as any-

thing else?

Alex: Editor

photograph: ‘3518’ Ieva Maniušytė

The curtains around the Latner room are closed. Not a sound is heard but the curious

scratching of pencils on paper. Is there some kind of pre-school crèche drawing cats

with crayons? No, it’s life drawing. It’s strange that it should happen behind closed

doors because in many ways, life drawing is a massive exhibition of things that

you’ve been hiding yourself. You pose on a chair and wait whilst a group of people

capture your likeness and, hopefully, part of yourself at the same time.

article: Alex Tyndall

sketches: Beatrice Xu

"That's the way to do it, the grown up voices whisper. Wear your

skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret."

photograph: ‘BEE’ Lucinda Toole

"That's the way to do it, the grown up voices whisper. Wear your

skeleton on the inside out, and keep your insect heart secret."

Karen Russel, ‘St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves’

Mi SC.

MiCHAELMAS 2012

photograph: ‘light shaft’ Lily Green