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Dream Images by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

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Carlyle Baker’s Dream Journal

Carlyle Baker

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I am in a market scene, some city of the middle east, talking with the son of the local bomb-maker, he is poor, diseased with nothing to lose. And dark childhood memories, finger nails scratching … [Read more...]

New Digital Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

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Artist's statement: carlyle has been included and excluded in(from) various fictional tapestries, the early work is thought to be extinct, this collection is a special offering to EM and was … [Read more...]

New Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

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Artist's statment: these are most innocent perceptions, returned from another location of space/time, somewhere lost in recognition of way-out dreaming, a close examination of one day and the … [Read more...]

Collages by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

Kathmandu (detail) by Carlyle Baker

Artist's Statement: we are here to go we had to do what we did or we couldn't do it. … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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