Mexican artist Carlos Amorales has over the years created a visual archive of vector images—which he calls ocarinas—taken from books, magazines, films, and the Internet that he incorporates into his multifaceted practice. In Esopus 24 (Spring 2017), he created the project Music for Talking Ocarinas, which comprised 16 pages—and a removable poster—of ghostly xeroxed images and musical scores that wove together these mysterious and haunting forms. Carlos also sent me some photographs (taken by Nicolas Mastracchio) of his hand with some ocarinas he had cast in metal to use as musical instruments. One of them inspired this drawing, and another became an opening spread in the issue.