Issue #20 ~ Summer 2025
Artwork
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“Zephyr” by Mary Amato
Mary Amato is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and musician. She creates work to explore meaning and to honor the transcendent, and her art and writing has appeared in many publications. She teaches both online and at the Montclair Art Museum, specializing in helping people to identify and overcome inner obstacles and to use meditation practices as artists. www.maryamato.com
More by Mary Amato…
Roger Camp:
Artist Statement: I am interested in thelittle thing,some object or scene that might offer some insight into the place I am photographing, perhaps offering an epiphany.
Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002. His documentary photography has been awarded the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, American Chordata and the New York Quarterly. He is represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NY.
Milena Makani:
Milena Makani, born in 1984 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a German contemporary artist based in London, UK. Makani’s deeply psychological paintings depict inner landscapes characterized by layered textures, fluid forms and gradients. Employing acrylics, watercolours and inks on mineral stone sheets, she blends control and spontaneity through the interplay of organic process and manipulation. Makani lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome – a source of constant pain. Her works channel the mindfulness, gratitude and energy of her lived experience, as she investigates themes of resilience, serenity, isolation, joy, stoicism and fragility. The German artist has exhibited her work in the UK, Bulgaria and Iceland and her paintings are featured internationally in various private
collections. Instagram:
www.instagram.com/milena.makani
Website & catalog of available works: www.milenamakani.com
More by Milena Makani…
Ferris Jones:
Ferris E Jones is an award-winning, internationally published poet, author, artist, and screenwriter living in Manchester Connecticut. He has published 13 collections of poetry. His art can be seen in Gulf Stream magazine, and his poetry has appeared in both print and online magazines including as the featured poet for Creative Talents Unleashed. Ferris has twice received honorable mention awards from the Writer’s Digest annual screenwriting contest.
Nataliia Burmaka:
Nataliia Burmaka (Ukraine/Finland) is a poet and artist. Her works have been shown in exhibitions in Finland and Ukraine and published in magazines such as Welter, Phoebe, Rednoisecollective, Arboreal, 805 lit, Full House Literary, etc. She compares creating visual art to writing a poem, except that she uses images instead of words. Her favorite art mediums are coffee and acrylic.
In her series “Future in the Past” she explores the concepts of alternative histories and possible climate change. This series invites the viewer to explore a world without dry land, where towering vertical lines symbolize alternative growth and evolution, and unusual shapes serve to illustrate how water could shape different forms of life.
Britnie Walston:
While nature inspires me, I find ways to also incorporate it with other subject matters that personally influence my work such as racial and social injustice. Though my diverse range of work requires different creative processes and mediums, they are influenced by the same subject matter: freedom. Some of my processes are experimental, as I use unconventional tools and mixtures of silicone and acrylic paint to achieve a variety of different results.
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