Kate Parfet, Milking a Duck Photography the sea becomes rougher and

the sea becomes rougher and more uncomfortable

Alex Fiorentino

Illiberal Arts is a search for forms concerning an artistic “Lebensarbeit” (“life’s work”

and takes to heart the need to work with kindness

and an extensive appendix with many useful tips and an overview with the best Dutch writings complete the issue thematically

Kate Parfet, Milking a Duck Photography the sea becomes rougher andMilking a Duck is a visceral experience declared loudly through ideas of healing and trauma, power dynamics and autonomy, self reckoning and being silenced, betrayal and trust. We are given an intimate accounting of Parfets journey towards becoming a mother; an attempt to understand the world through memory, loss, and moving forward. Parfet imagines a future just out of reach. Seemingly straightforward tasks prove more difficult than milking a duck.