Author: Inklette

Two Pieces

Artist Statement: “We still live in a world where women so often don’t have a voice. Exploring feminine power and energy is integral to all that I create as an artist. I feel that energy and power everywhere in nature, which is one of the reasons why I am drawn to flora and fauna imagery in my work. The feminine is natural and good and we must honor it. We must let it speak. We must give it equal importance in every conversation. We must also recognize that it is multilayered and multifaceted. Perhaps that is why I so often render my visions and thoughts in collages, whether in traditional paper form, photography, or mixed media. I work in layers, just as the female mind and the female experience work in layers. And as I work, I often choose colors and materials that remind me of the multiple aesthetics I grew up knowing as the daughter of a Salvadoran mother and a New Yorker father who was raised in the Washington, D.C. area and traveled the world before settling in Brooklyn.”

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‘Altar and Mermaid No. 10,’ Photography, 2017

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‘Altar and Mermaid No. 20,’ Photography, 2017

CHRISTINE STODDARD is a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer and artist who lives in Brooklyn. Her visuals have appeared in the New York Transit Museum, the Ground Zero Hurricane Katrina Museum, the Poe Museum, and beyond. In 2014, Folio Magazine named her one of the top 20 media visionaries in their 20s for founding the culture magazine, Quail Bell. She also is a Puffin Foundation grantee, Artbridge winner, and Library of Virginia REMIX artist.

Knife Town

Artist Statement: “These photos are from a series taken in Japan last winter.

It was hard to tell if things rusted more frequently here or if the tone of the rust’s canvas just made it more obvious. The palette of the houses’ paint gave the impression that they had been designed to rust, as if time and oxygen were their final adornments.”

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‘Knife Town,’ Photography, 2016

KELCIE is a student living in the northernmost city in the contiguous United States. She has been shooting film for the last ten years. 

The Red Hill

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‘The Red Hill,’ Oil on Canvas, 2017

REBECCA PYLE is both painter and writer.  She has lived in Alaska, London, New York, and Kansas, among other places:  she now lives at the foot of many mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Poems and stories of hers appear in Healing Muse, Stoneboat, and, soon, Wisconsin Review.  In Salt Lake City, she is a member of the writing group, The King’s English, and the writing / performance troupe, Simple Simple. Images of her artwork appear in Raven Chronicles, Hawai’i Review, Inklette, and New England Review.  She is an oil painter.  More of her paintings can be seen in rebeccapyleartist.com.

The Little Prince

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‘The Little Prince’ Photography, 2017 

AVA BORTE is a rising senior at Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia and at The Governor’s School For The Arts in Norfolk, Virginia where she has taken classes in figure drawing, art history, screen print, fibers, ceramics, book making, mold making and glass casting, neon, and mixed media. She is a member of the National Honor Society and has accumulated over 500 community service hours since 2015 while leading a team of artists in creating a large scale neon glass installation from her original design. Ava has been recognized for her art by multiple organizations and in juried exhibitions. Ava currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia and her in-progress neon installation will be completed, unveiled, and featured in the 2017 GAS conference which will be located in Norfolk, Virginia. 

Cave of Hands

 

Pinturas Canyon, Argentina

 

Like the blind

signals of bats

 

echoing

against naked cliffs,

 

these rust-

red silhouettes

 

of palms,

fingers fanned,

 

must mean

to tell us something.

 

Maybe hearts

are like this

 

when they flit into the dark

of woods, hover over

 

rock outcroppings,

find homes

 

in crevices

among the scraggy

 

brush, cling

to rough dust-

 

covered sandstone—

to feel and feel again.

MARTHA KALIN has received awards for her poetry including a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan and several fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recent publications include poems in Anastamos, Don’t Just Sit There, and Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century, published by University Press of New England. Her chapbook, Afterlife and Mango, was published by Green Fuse Poetic Arts in 2013. She lives in Denver, Colorado. 

Ranch Window

Artist Statement: “Home means many things. To an architect, it is about human scale, budget, and purpose. To a an individual, home is safety, family, personal space. But the setting looms large too, framing one’s view and perspective. Am I looking inward, or outward? Do I want to enter or escape? Is this a home a place from which to launch myself each day anew, or is it a repository of my past?”

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‘Ranch Window,’ Photography, 2017

JOHN MARK JENNINGS is a contemporary landscape and architectural photographer based in Far West Texas. His images focus primarily on the American West and Latin America, with an emphasis on sites where the land and history intersect in dramatic ways. John has studied at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Arizona Highways Photography Workshops, Laney College, and with individual photographers throughout the west. He has exhibited during the East Austin Studio Tour and other venues in Austin, as well as online. John splits his time between homes in Marfa and Austin, Texas.

Coming Home From The Airport

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ELIZABETH CZER is a comics artist and writer from Toronto. She recently graduated from Concordia University, where she studied English and Creative Writing. Her work has been published in magazines such as Soliloquies Anthology, The Void, and Bad Nudes Magazine. She likes to write about things she is afraid of.