Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale
What we are attracted to can sometimes intimidate or unsettle us. In the case of art and writing, the work we find powerful demands our attention, sometimes even a second encounter. Poets may shock us … [Read more...]
Mining the Ruins: Andrea Burgay
My work elevates the overlooked and the mundane through a process of cutting, reconfiguring and unifying a variety of handmade, found and discarded materials. Using paper ephemera whose original … [Read more...]
Behind the Scene: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
We can see the lights in the distance. Through the thin papers coated with Linseed oil. The Lumière brothers said, "The cinema is an invention without any future". The cine projector continues to … [Read more...]
Four Paintings and a Poem by Stephen Lee Naish
Untitled a Coke machine a smile a casual "hi" a walk barefoot in cut grass a door a gas station a pencil a paperclip a desire to be anything you want a bed a … [Read more...]
On Henry James: Four Erasure Poems by Andre Bagoo
Minimizing Monetization Earth: Agnes Denes’ Art
Is there truly any art that can surpass the beauty and majestic power of nature itself? Wasn’t it Neil Young who said “Nature is a monument to be preserved,” or words to that effect? The earth is … [Read more...]
In Goya’s Dark Room
I wish we could stand behind the man who is painting over the old paintings, whose clothes are covered with ochre, in his atelier where many candles are lit. Though he doesn’t like being watched, if … [Read more...]
Two collages with found poetry, by Alessandra Bava
In the past few days, as I am experiencing a whole new life in quarantine, a friend asked me to join a collage group on FB. I had stopped making collages when I was in primary school. I am enjoying … [Read more...]
Kombinations: Four collages by Kon Markogiannis
Collages on old book covers influenced by dadaism, constructivism and surrealism. … [Read more...]
To Ride a Horse: The Art of Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Perceptions of Nature in an Age of Decline
Think of seeing a horse. How often do we see a horse as something we can ride, and can we learn to look at horses without ever thinking about how humans can use them? When we see mountains, how often … [Read more...]
Nine Mixed Media Collages by Kelly Schaub
Visual poetry by Kon Markogiannis
Experimental work combining scrap papers, collage, photography, found text, and fragments of poetry. … [Read more...]
Screaming To Escape From All Limitations: An Interview with John Digby
John Digby was born in London in 1938. He began writing Surrealist poetry from the early 1970s. He was influenced by Breton, Eluard, Arp, and Desnos. Although he was living in England, the first … [Read more...]
In Our Veins: Paintings by Amy Guidry
The premise of my series “In Our Veins” is to explore the connections between all life forms and the cycle of life. Through a psychological, and sometimes visceral, approach, this series investigates … [Read more...]
Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo
Akbar del Piombo — illustrious subterranean luminary, mysterious, pseudonymous author of six darkly comic, wildly satirical collage novels. Akbar del Piombo — preposterous, portentous name, once … [Read more...]
Thought Notes From My Open Side: Mixed-Media Work by Michelle Firment Reid
A multidisciplinary artist, I choose the medium I feel best conveys my concept and intent. I express my emotions as a visual narrative open to interpretation; not at all fixed, but with the desire to … [Read more...]
Blanc Casse: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) It is a memorable line in The Great … [Read more...]
Everything is Zero Calorie: Watercolors by Yen Yen
My work is an imaginary world that starts from my obsession with food, especially sweets. Growing up in Taiwan, I remember going to supermarkets and bakeries with my parents and longing for all the … [Read more...]
geographies by Mark Young
The visual geographies are manipulated art works, sometimes derived from the actual place named, sometimes not. They're aligned with the text poetry produced under the same umbrella title, but … [Read more...]
