Issue #14 ~ Winter 2024
Artwork
COVER IMAGE: “FOCUS” by K.A. Wesly
“The exit seems far away, yet it’s close. You don’t know where the path starts, yet it seems simple. You try to follow a path there, but there’s a lot of dead ends. Part of the path seems to end at the exit, but the start of it is hidden. This is how trying to focus often is with ADHD.”
“Within the Oak” by Kate (Junehyo) Choi
Cover ~ Issue #5, 2023 Best of the Net Finalist
“Scarred Beauty” by Gerburg Garmann
Cover ~ Issue #10, Best of the Net Nominee
“Painting is yet another foreign language for me and allows for aesthetic expression in form of color, shape, thought, and passion. It is a language, which can be shared by many, verbally and non-verbally. Because paintings (just as other forms of art) provide symbolic as well as real meeting grounds of the spiritual and our day-to-day experiences, they solicit our reaction no matter whether our engagement with the actual piece of art ends up in affection or dislike, in affirmation or disapproval. In the end, all artwork manifests a story.”
“Braided Platte” by Kim Sosin
Cover ~ Issue #7,023 Best of the Net Nominee
Kim McNealy Sosin is Emerita Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska Omaha and in retirement enjoys creating and publishing photography, poetry, and flash fiction. One morning she was on a rural bridge in Nebraska over a braid of the Platte River, when this sky materialized.
“The impressionist treatment the image was given echoes how that morning felt.”
“Inheritance” and “And Yet” by Ann-Marie Brown
“Painting in a garden in a time of shifting ecologies is a celebration of resilience shadowed by knowledge. When Dutch painters in the 17th century painted fruit, they were in contemplation of the transience of human life, firm in the conviction that the seasons would continue to unfold even as the eyes looking at the painting would turn to dust. To paint fruit now is to think about the ephemeral nature of all things.”
“Among Sparks and Scions (Night)” by Aaron Lelito
Aaron Lelito is a visual artist and writer from Buffalo, NY. His images have been published as cover art in Red Rock Review, Peatsmoke Journal, and The Scriblerus. His poetry chapbook, The Half Turn, was published in 2023, and his work has also appeared in Barzakh Magazine, Novus Literary Arts Journal, SPECTRA Poets, The Primer, and Santa Fe Review. He is editor in chief of the art & literature website Wild Roof Journal. Instagram: @aaronlelito
“Fish Tail” by Leslie Brown
Leslie Brown lives in the Washington DC area. She has a MFA in Creative Writing from American University. Her published work includes: short videos, short stories, and creative non-fiction, and digital design. Her digital work has been accepted for publication in Closed Eye Open, Zoetic Press, and NBR: World Tour. Her work has also appeared in Phoebe Literary Journal, Beyond Words, and Burrdowning Press.
She is enjoys the freedom in the way that digitized editing of photographs prompts the imagination and creativity.
“Fish Tail” is my imaging of the Deepwater oil leak flame chasing a fish.
“Chartreuse Woods” and “Baby Breath” by Vian Borchert
Vian Borchert is an established artist. Borchert exhibits in museums and key galleries in major cities and their artwork has been on display in Times Square on Broadway, United Nations, and The National Liberty Museum. “Notable Alumni” from Corcoran George Washington University, Borchert’s work is in world marketplaces “1stDibs” and “Artsy”. http://www.vianborchert.com.
“Ocean of Stillness” and “Where Two Infinites Meet” by Shrishti Tassin
Best of the Net Nominee
Shrishti Tassin is an artist based in India. Her body of works includes abstract landscapes, installation art and murals. She feels compelled to capture emotions evoked by nature’s inherent numinous quality, juxtaposing the beauty of a physical landscape to the hidden embers and expanse of our consciousness; her works explore nature as simultaneously containing an instant and the infinite.
“Like Sand Through An Hourglass” by Yuchen Shi
Yuchen Shi is an artist based in Singapore from the United World College of South East Asia. Inspired by collage art, her work mainly revolves around metropolitan lifestyles and the way they contribute to the construction of one’s identity. Although oil is her primary medium, she also experiments with installationand video art to present her thoughts regarding the rapid development of our world.
Unnamed by Malia Nahinu
Issue #8 Cover
Malia Nahinu is a Los Angeles, CA artist who loves to create art as a form of healing and has been published worldwide.
“East Side Gallery, Berlin” by Jeremiah Gilbert
Jeremiah Gilbert is a college professor and award-winning photographer and travel writer based out of Southern California. His travels have taken him to nearly a hundred countries and territories spread across six continents. His photography has been published internationally and has been exhibited worldwide. He is also the author of the collections Can’t Get Here from There: Fifty Tales of Travel and From Tibet to Egypt: Early Travels After a Late Start. He can be found on Instagram @jg_travels.