Patricia Van Lubeck
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaIn a din chamber Mother sets my vice Little bed of needlescontinue reading this poem
Patricia van Lubeck is a self-taught artist. In recent years her visually dynamic, pattern-oriented works show landscapes and weird plant species which she calls her psychedelic gardens.
David Maisel
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaMy parents are still here due to the snow That's falling fatly on us in Cheyennecontinue reading this poem
David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both.
Rebecca Campbell
Tags/ Posted by Christopher ArisFlunking a breast exam one week after womb removal I get the call that something’s showed up and I go back to be prodded, probed and sonographed.continue reading this poem
Rebecca Campbell “Right now in my work I am exploring aspects of memory, nostalgia and time”
Marischa Slusarski
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaThe big fat Italian guys with the Chinese characters tattooed onto their man titties sit in the steam room with me and say Jimmie and Hey Jimmie and Jimmie Jimmie.continue reading this poem
Like a version of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights reconsidered in a nursery school idiom, Marischa Slusarski’s wavering hills and valleys of flattened dirt are excavated and trampled by a host of humanoid babies, pie-eyed animals and other accidents of nature — the skin, bones, sinews and artifice that comprise her enchanted freak shows.
Tessar Lo
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaI see fireflies instead of stars, stars instead of meteors.continue reading this poem
Tessar Lo has been influenced by artists such as Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara and by Japanese ukioyo-e printers and other traditional Asian techniques. He juxtaposes these traditional influences with current pop culture and music to create his own unique view of the world around him
Luke Ramsey
Tags/ Posted by Carmelita CaruanaIf you want to discover your mind burn your house to the groundcontinue reading this poem
“I meditatate my heart with what I feel is pretty art.” – Luke Ramsey, 30 year old artist and illustrator living and working on Pender Island, Canada.
