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Watching Over the Horizon

By D. Arifah

D. Arifah is an aspiring photographer who is fascinated by the silent stories the world tells. Through her photography, she seeks to preserve these delicate narratives and share with others the depth of human experience and the quiet power of our interrelation with our environments. Much of her work is an invitation to pause, listen, and see the world around us a little more closely.

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Respect

By Rachel Turney

Artist’s Statement
I am an educator who works in two roles. I coach and supervise new teachers and teach immigrants and refugees. Education as a general theme influences my work. I write a lot about my childhood, which I call suburban dramatic. It is a rose: alluring, sweet, but thorned. Growing up in the Midwest, and now living in the beauty of Colorado, shapes my view and interactions with society. I have also lived, worked, and traveled abroad a fair amount over the last twenty-five years. This influence is particularly clear in my visual pieces. Passionate love for my spouse is a new theme of much of my work. That goes along with sexual freedom and pride in body image, which are important causes to me. The most crucial and prevailing lens and reach of my work is based on my identity as a woman and urgent protectorship of other women globally. I took this photograph in the Khan Market in Delhi in 2019. I captured this sign because I found the representation of women striving to gain respect relatable, a global struggle. My understanding of why the Venus symbol is inverted may be two fold. First, it may represent the lack of balance between the masculine and feminine. The second is that the inversion may be a signal to include other marginalized communities. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have more knowledge of this particular symbol’s use within India. These are my conjectures after some research, but have not been sufficiently verified nor validated—@turneytalks on Instagram.

Rachel Turney is an educator in Colorado. Her poems and prose are published in The Font Journal, Red Rose Thorns, Ranger, Through Lines, Blink Ink, Bare Back, The Hooghly Review, and Teach Write Journal. Her photography appears in San Antonio Review, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Prosetrics, Vagabond City, Dipity, and Ink in Thirds Magazine. Her artwork appears in Cosmic Daffodil. Blog: turneytalks.wordpress.com. Instagram: @turneytalks

Suffrage or Suffer

By Kristin Fouquet

Artist’s Statement
In a world seduced by artificial intelligence, I assemble my collages more traditionally. I use my original printed photographs on archival paper with pigment ink, cut them, glue them on foam board, and embellish them with gold paint.

Kristin Fouquet is a photographer, collage maker, and writer in lovely New Orleans. Her photography appears in online journals and magazines, on chapbook and book covers, on album artwork, and in galleries. When not behind the camera, Kristin writes literary fiction. She is the author of seven books. One of her collages was included in a recent New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery exhibit. Visit Le Salon.

Disappearing Into the Flesh Market VII

By Mary Stebbins Taitt

Artist’s statement: This painting, part of a series, is a resistance statement against the misuse of girls, boys, women, and others by flesh markets of prostitution, child pornography, and sex trafficking. The first painting in the series was a response in oils to an art installation by Tyree Guyton at Detroit’s Heidelberg Project using dolls and vacuum cleaners to represent violation. In this version, a shadow creeps over the disintegrating faces of the lost girls.

Mary Stebbins Taitt writes and paints and walks outside in the sun, wind, rain, and snow. She was chosen to be an artist in the Scattered Ecstasies program linking Detroit and Windsor during COVID-19. She has shown at galleries in the greater Detroit, Michigan, and Syracuse, New York, areas. Her artwork has been published in Third Wednesday, Vox Populi, and Mixitiini; on the online cover of Hopper Magazine; and in two books.

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Skull Fries

By Janis Butler Holm

Artist Statement: Fast food, a multi-billion-dollar industry, is slowly killing Americans and others. French fries and what they accompany are not harmless.

Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K. Learn more at www.janisbutlerholm.com and www.laplaywrights.org/member/Janis-Butler-Holm, and follow her on Facebook.

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America, America

By Howie Good

Artist’s Statement

My handmade collages are intended as a rebuke to the lifeless perfection of Photoshopped images. They are also intended to provoke an authentic response by combining images in a way that challenges old habits of seeing.

Howie Good is a poet and collage artist on Cape Cod. His latest poetry books are Famous Long Ago (Laughing Ronin Press) and The Bad News First (Kung Fu Treachery Press).

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Vacuum

By Guyon Prince

Artist’s Statement: This collage takes a smiling, vacuuming lady from a 1950s LIFE Magazine advertisement and recontextualizes her. As we know, in the 50s it was largely (and incorrectly) assumed that most women were happy to stay home and tend the house and kids every day, while men went out into the world. But in the new context the lady is now a superhero of sorts, vacuuming up ethical toxicity in the setting of our time—social media. However, I like to believe that her smile in the new context is sincere.

Guyon Prince, raised on the cotton farms of the West Texas Plains with Choctaw blood flowing through his veins, spent his formative years hunting arrowheads and carving makeshift arrows out of roofing shingles with his stilt-walking grandfather, his namesake. Eventually, the Texas winds carried him to the desert storms of Iraq as Sergeant Prince, leading troops in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom and subsequent campaigns. Upon honorable discharge and restless with patriotism and disillusionment, Guyon enrolled in West Texas A&M University under the G.I. Bill, studying under Dr. Bonney MacDonald and Dr. Monica Hart, scholars of American and British literature, respectively. Renewed by Whitman’s verse and Emerson’s prose, Guyon obtained his teaching certifications in English and Fine Art. He currently commutes 30 miles a day to teach senior English to at-risk students. He lives with his partner, Sarah, their two children, and various domesticated mammals in Canyon, Texas.

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Defiance

By Ethan Cunningham

Artist’s Statement

For me, the true beauty of this image is that it suggests a powerful story with very little. But for each person, that story can be very personal and very different. The silhouette acts as a stand-in for the viewer.

I like to imagine this is a woman who has recently received terrible news, perhaps her husband has left her or she was diagnosed with cancer, and so she drives to the coast to process this in solitude, and here she is, having battled the raging sea and herself, standing resolute against the tide, determined to resist being crushed and fight onward, head held high.

Even though I was there when I took the photo and I know its silhouetted subject well, and I know the true story of this photo, for me personally, this is the story told in this image.

Ethan Cunningham prefers to create without artistic labels. His short works appear in print, on-screen, and on the stage. Most recently, his poetry, short fiction, and photography can be found in Abstract Elephant, Lotus-eater Magazine, Ygdrasil, New Plains Review, and others. Among his writing credits are three award-winning short documentaries featuring international nonprofit endeavors. He lives in California.

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Crime Scene

By Mark Blickley and Nancy A. Kiel

Mark Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. His latest book is the text-based art collaboration with fine arts photographer Amy Bassin, Dream Streams.

Nancy A. Kiel lives in Sydney, Australia, where she’s an award-winning musician, songwriter, writer, and founding member of the New Zealand band Baby! and the Australian group Party Girls. Nancy is the founder and Managing Director of Miss Nancy’s Dried Berries.

Ten Commandments from the Book of MAGA

By Chris Maiurro and Remy Dambron, an artist-author collaboration

I. I alone am your news, you shall not have other news besides me.
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee global waming or covfefe.
III. Thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord, your vain president.
IV. Remember which came first, the wheel and the wall.
V. Honor thy twitter and fox.
VI. Thou shalt not kill unless invoking the second amendment.
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery above one hundred thirty thousand.
VIII. Thou shalt not be caught stealing.
IX. Though shalt only bear witness to false and alternate facts.
X. Thou shalt only covet thy partisan goods.

Remy and Chris met in Portland, Oregon during March for Our Lives 2018. They have since teamed up to advocate for equal rights, attending community-led events that promote social justice and collaborating on poetry, prose, and imagery that denounce political corruption.

Untitled art by Beth Levine

Beth Levine shares her life with two dogs. She is vegan and an animal rights activist, believing that the root of all injustice is the idea that some lives matter less, and no living being should be exploited. She is a psychotherapist, writes poetry, creates visual artwork, and feeds the birds, squirrels and raccoons who live in her backyard. Her website is www.ArtByBethLevine.com.

Translated from the Portuguese

By Mark Blickley

Artist’s note:

This past fall, I co-curated an exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal, Tributaries, that opened on Sept. 30th and ran for ten weeks, under the auspices of the international artist’s cooperative, Urban Dialogues. While in Lisbon, I went into the oldest continuous bookstore in the world, Chiado Bertrand Bookstore, which was founded in 1732 (the year of George Washington’s birth). I found this Portuguese published book about Donald Trump that I immediately bought because a redacted title of the book jumped out at me, O Me Too, (which piggybacks nicely on the Me Too movement)). When I got home I was able to also redact “A Pee Poem” (alluding to the Steele dossier about the salacious incident of Trump hiring Russian prostitutes to pee on the bed where the Obamas slept in Moscow). And, as I progressed down the book cover, I was also able to redact Go More Anal and then I placed DJ-45 in front of a golden wall.

Mark Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center as well as the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Scholarship Award for Drama. He is the author of Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press), Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes from the Underground (Moira Books) and the forthcoming text based art book, Dream Streams (Clare Songbirds Publishing). His video, Widow’s Peek: The Kiss of Death, was selected to the 2018 International Experimental Film Festival in Bilbao, Spain. He is a 2018 Audie Award Finalist for his contribution to the original audio book, Nevertheless We Persisted. Visit his website to learn more about Mark.

Street Art by Jennifer Meneray

Jennifer Meneray (Jenn) is best known for her participation in feminist resistance. Witnessing the injustice that took place in her hometown of Hinkley, California, encouraged her to focus on documenting stories less heard in the mainstream. As an artist, she explores how social movement is a way to demand social justice. Now, based in Washington, DC, Jenn has documented forms of resistance, starting with the No Dakota Access Pipeline (No DAPL) water protectors. She continues her work in the city today.

Storm Front

By Judith Skillman

Artist Statement

In “Storm Front,” oil and cold wax on canvas, 12” x 12”, the artist used a rag in equal measure to paint and wax. A paint scraper was employed to etch out the trees at the bottom left. Nature provides solace during times of affliction, whether that affliction be physical or political. One can imagine that those who have been targets of fascism and racism—dreamers who deserve their amnesty, “illegal” Mexicans who perform heroic jobs American refuse to do, and the poor from whom government support has been taken and put into the pockets of the very rich—these people still and always remain citizens of the natural world.

Perhaps not surprisingly, given the German term Sturm and drang (transl. as storm and urge, or action and high emotionalism—in the German usage, however, against 18th century norms in literature and music)—a website by the same name, “Stormfront,” which had its domain name “seized for displaying bigotry, discrimination, or hatred,” has become a growing force for white nationalists and neo-Nazi’s. To call this site troubling would be euphemistic. Inherent in the attitudes of those who patronize this site lies a disturbing reality. Not only is the current administration bent on making the rich richer and the poor poorer, it is determined to sacrifice nature in the bargain.

Regulations of vehicle greenhouse gas emissions implemented under the Obama administration have been undone; FEMA has stricken the term “climate change” from its plan book and “climate change” websites have been likewise censored; the Trump admin has decreed that accidental bird deaths, in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), are legal.

To date, the actions of this administration have broken with a tradition of environmental protection—the result of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), and other like-minded literature that focuses on understanding the impact humans have had on the earth. The actions taken by Trump and his cronies undo measures to safeguard the only place we have to live. They are shocking; they fly in the face of science, spirituality, and God-given rights for plants, animals and humans.

“Storm Front,” then, can be seen as what has happened since the Trump administration came to power, and what is to come. Viewing the painting requires an admission that this is not the time to sit idly by. Both the natural and the human world require concrete forms of protest—resistance—in order to survive the onslaught of such a dangerous and powerful ignorance.

Judith Skillman is interested in feelings engendered by the natural world. Her medium is oil on canvas and oil on board; her works range from representational to abstract. Her art has appeared in Minerva Rising, Cirque, The Penn Review, The Remembered Arts, and elsewhere. She also writes poetry, and her new collection, Premise of Light, is published by and available from Tebot Bach. Judith has studied at the Pratt Fine Arts Center and the Seattle Artist’s League under the mentorship of Ruthie V. Shows include The Pratt, Galvanize, and The Pocket Theater, in Seattle. Visit jkpaintings.com.

Behold the Anti-Trump March in London

Illustration reportage by Ollie Hayes

Demonstrators with statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London

Demonstrators with small Trump Baby balloon, near Parliament Square, London

Demonstrator with flag of the European Union, Regent Street, London

Young woman with statue of activist and suffragist Millicent Fawcett
Parliament Square, London

Demonstrators at the Bring the Noise march, Regent Street, London

Demonstrators, one with Trump mask, Piccadilly, London

Ollie Hayes is an MA Illustration student based in Sheffield, UK. He can be reached at oliver@hayesillustration.co.uk, you can see more of his work at hayesillustration.co.uk, and you can followed Ollie on Twitter, @ohaaayes.

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Stand Up, Kneel Down

By Israel Francisco Haros Lopez

Artist’s statement: “Stand Up, Kneel Down,” digital art, was made to speak to the historical connection of Colin Kaepernick’s act, to speak to the issues that continue to plague our communities. His kneeling and those actions that have followed suit will stand in history as a moment when a peaceful quiet act spoke fiercely, loudly, to the greater political reality that is begging for change.

Israel Francisco Haros Lopez was born in East Los Angeles to immigrant parents of Mexican descent. He is a recent recipient of the Kindle Project’s Makers Muse Award for his community work. He brings firsthand knowledge of the realities of migration, U.S. border policies, and life as a Mexican American to his work with families and youth, as a mentor, educator, art instructor, ally, workshop facilitator and activist. Even with a 1.59 high school G.P.A., Israel managed to go back to community college and raise his grades to get accepted into U.C. Berkeley and receive a degree in English Literature and Chicano Studies followed by an MFA in Creative Writing. At formal and informal visual art spaces, Israel creates and collaborates in many interdisciplinary ways including poetry, performance, music, visual art, video making and curriculum creation. His work addresses a multitude of historical and spiritual layered realities of border politics, identity politics, and the re-interpretation of histories. Visit the artist’s website at www.waterhummingbirdhouse.com.

The Wall

A Poster by Tomaso Marcolla

Tomaso Marcolla was born in 1964, in Trento, Italy, where he currently lives and creates. Graduated from the Art Institute of Trento, he began work as a graphic designer in 1985.

He began to experiment his passion for art with watercolors, “applying them on non-traditional backgrounds, from Japanese paper to chalk.”

Later, his works became a fusion of graphic, pictorial, digital art and illustration, creating an interesting relationship, a technical and communicative interchange between the professional and artistic activity.

Marcolla finds digital art is well suited to the frenzy of the current times: “I choose it for its immediacy and the speed of realization. In addition, of course, for the effect. However, I don’t neglect other techniques such as pen, acrylic, figurative.The effect of the digital art is immediate, including the possibility to post it instantly on the web.”

The right to employment, the economic crisis, solidarity, nonviolence, the preservation of the environment: the subjects and inspirations of Marcolla’s cartoons come from the current news. “Watching television, talking to people, listening to a joke” this is how the artist from Trento finds an opportunity to grab the pen (and the mouse) and represent the reality “in a way that makes people think, and also smile, although sometimes I deal with very serious issues.”

His posters, created by assembling graphic techniques, photography and computer graphics, have received international awards. He’s a member of the AIAP (Italian Association for the Planning of Visual Communication) and the BEDA (Bureau of European Designers Associations).

Read more about Marcolla and “The Wall” here and visit his website here.

Untitled

By Tara Williams

Artist’s note: My concept for this painting is the feeling of being disconnected from America, like a neighbor you catch glimpses of, but still don’t know. I wanted it to reflect the moment one finally realizes the appalling things that occur in this nation on a daily basis. While creating this painting, I also realized that it could take on other interpretations. Some viewers have expressed their own to me on social media.

Tara Williams is an illustrator and works primarily with gouache and watercolor. Her background is in graphic design. She is known for her vivid colors and rich attention to traditional techniques and fine detail. Follow her work on Tumblr and on Instagram.

Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground

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Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground, a chapbook, is my collaboration with fine arts photographer Amy Bassin. I matched quotes from many of history’s most infamous tyrants to Amy’s funereal sculptural portraits to produce spins by DJ Trump surrogates from Genghis Khan to the Koch Brothers. Each quote (report) echoes a distinctly Trumpian thought, issued forth from the weathered patinas of plein air cemetery sculptures. We consider the Trump administration to be a graveyard where each day we are forced to attend daily burials of American moral conscience and civil liberties.

– Mark Blickley

Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground can be purchased via Lulu, here.

Free PDFs of the book can be downloaded here.

The creators gratefully acknowledge Trump surrogates:

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Idi Amin
John Wilkes Booth
Osama Bin Laden
Caligula
Roy Cohn
Jefferson Davis
Muammar Gaddafi

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Saddam Hussein
Judas Iscariot
Jezebel
Genghis Khan
Koch Bros.
Charles Manson

Joseph McCarthy
Josef Mengele
Benito Mussolini
Pol Pot
Vladimir Putin
Josef Stalin

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New York fine arts photographer Amy Bassin and writer Mark Blickley work together on text-based art collaborations and videos. Their series, Dream Streams, was featured as an art installation at the 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival, and excerpts have been widely published including in Columbia Journal of Literature and Art. Their video, Speaking In Bootongue, was selected for the London Experimental Film Festival. They recently published a text-based art chapbook, Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground (Moria Books, Chicago). The publisher has sent their resistance book to the White House. Bassin is co-founder of the international artists cooperative, Urban Dialogues. Blickley is the author of Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press) and proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center.

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Boy Bye

Boy Bye

By Lauren Marie Scovel

Lauren Marie Scovel is a Boston-based bookseller and editorial assistant. She graduated from Emerson College with degrees in Writing, Literature, Publishing and Theatre Studies. This photograph was taken with a Promaster 2500PK Super film camera at the Women’s March in Washington D.C.