Magazine Vandalism as High Art

You know the impulse—a phone call drags on, there’s a magazine within reach, and before you know it you’ve given some celebrity a handlebar mustache and a cock drawn in ballpoint pen. Hattie Stewart has built a career out of exactly that instinct. She takes covers from Playboy, Rolling Stone, and whatever else crosses her table, and buries them under explosions of illustrated eyes, tongues, flowers, and general psychedelic chaos until the original photo is nearly an afterthought. The result isn’t vandalism—it’s a conversation the magazine didn’t know it was having.