~after Edgar Kunz
Two hundred and sixty seven miles southwest, my mother breathes in
ventolin in a state sponsored facility in southern Illinois. A silver cross clasped
in her soft palm. She has a Washington Redskins throw blanket
furled into …
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The Museum of Unused Hours & After the Lake Broke Its Promise
The Museum of Unused Hours
In the west wing, a glass case
holds the afternoon you never answered the phone.
It smells faintly of dust and oranges.
Visitors linger there,
heads tilted,
as if waiting for something to move.
Down …
Translation Definition
“translation
/tranz-LAY-shuhn/
noun
1.“the art of failure,” -John Ciardi
2. The vietnamese words thuong and yeu are often translated to “love.” But the reader would never know that where thuong is generous, yeu is selfish and unbending. Yeu owns the …
Jeneen
“At the rooftops of multiple homes, you can see the holes they dug out of the walls to make a place for the sniper. As you see here at my feet, hundreds of ammunition shells left behind. And of course, …
Landless & Eye in the Sky
Landless, Oil on Panel
The image for this painting came to me after reflecting on the idea of being landless. What would it feel like to be forcefully unanchored? I painted a Palestinian child resting on a fluffy cloud …
Sometimes at my Window
Sometimes at my Window, textile
Introduced to embroidery at an early age by her grandmother, Sandrine TORREDEMER has never stopped embroidering, a passion that became almost a necessity when her life was turbulent. Over this long period, her artistic …
The Union of Black Brothers
The Union of Black Brothers
As an artist, I am deeply inspired by the complexity of human emotion and the interplay between light and shadows in our everyday lives. My work draws from both personal experiences and universal themes of …
Walk of Life 1
Galal Yousif draws to feel that he is effecting change in his life, no matter how small. His worries, concerns, and interests stem from the periphery of his existence…
Inspiration strikes him from both grand and minute details—the intricate decorations, …
AJ Haynes
AJ Haynes
Ruby Zlotkowski
A.J. Haynes is an award winning interdisciplinary enchantress from the deep South and leader of the acclaimed soul power band Seratones. Her work spans performance, songwriting, and immersive storytelling, rooted in the belief that art is …
Cat-Sitting
Grace walks through a door and finds a man staring at a long-haired cat. She’s at a party where she knows almost no one—hardly knows the host—but she knows this cat. She once spent five …
