by Jack Bordnick

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JACK BORDNICK’s sculptural and photographic imagery is a reflection of his past and present forces and the imagination of his life’s stories. They represent an evolutionary process of these ideas and how all of life’s forces are interconnected, embraced and expressed through creative art forms. These works represent what has accomplished with this art form. They reflect this quantum and metaphoric moment, the changing from one form to another. They express and implement these thoughts and feelings, and take risks, without any guarantee of their success. To be reflected through these present works, is his goal. The predominant imagery deals mostly with faces of both living and non-living beings and things. They are expressed in many forms and images, speaking to us in their own languages.

Bordnick has been a part of this creative world since he can remember, beginning as a product designer and establishing his own design business in New York, SantaFe and Europe. These present sculptural images incorporate surrealistic, mythological and magical imagery, fabricated in textural metallic mixed media assemblages. They are assembled, disassembled and reassembled. They are heavily textured surfaces that become abstractions unto themselves, and he seeks them to revert back to their origins. Enjoy their stories.

Artist Statement

My collage work is an amalgam of vintage graphics, mixed media, and photography, arranged within photoshop. I tend to be drawn to exploring negative space & color. This particular series, ‘The Terrible Practice,’ (2021-2022) is an exploration of ego death and what lies beyond that.

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JESSE CAVERLY was born an hour outside of Boston but he and his mother quickly became nomads. He doesn’t remember much about Tucson and everything about Hawaii. There, he had a small white terrier as a pet. There, he collected comic books and ate guavas fresh off the branch. Then they moved to California, high school was all right, college didn’t happen but life did. He is now a storyteller, proud father of a wilding, and an occasional poet. He resides in Arcata, Humboldt County. He can be found here.

by Michael Moreth

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MICHAEL MORETH is a recovering Chicagoan living in the micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.

by Donald Patten

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DONALD PATTEN is an artist from Belfast, Maine. He is currently a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Maine. As an artist, he produces oil paintings and graphic novels. Artworks of his have been exhibited in galleries across the Mid-Coast region of Maine. His online portfolio is donaldlpatten.newgrounds.com

Artist Statement

We have a strange relationship to photographs, in that we overlook the artifice. Conversely, in paintings all we see is the artifice. In my paintings, I have attempted to create hybrids that have elements of photographs (such as the color scale) and elements of paintings (in that they are brushwork). The goal is not to create realism, but to pull the mediated and mediation so close together that they nearly touch.

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KARL ZUEHLKE is an artist, translator, and teacher. Zuehlke’s artwork has appeared in The Penn Review, Cream City Review, Adroit Journal, Reed Magazine, Tint, Peatsmoke, and elsewhere.

Artist Statement

I was sitting in a cafe with an acquaintance when I asked if I could draw her. She read something from her phone as I drew. The wallpaper behind her looked like the inside of a microchip. Instead of a menu, there was a QR code printed on the table. I incorporated elements of the QR code into the wallpaper around the subject. I also let the tip of her eyelash intrude upon the design. Finally, I embedded a heart shape into the wallpaper so that it appears to float by the subject’s lips. This drawing vibrates with interactions between the human mind and the technology it has created.

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SAMANTHA STEINER is a writer and visual artist. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Saltonstall Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Find her on social media @Steiner_Reads.

by Uzomah Ugwu

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UZOMAH UGWU is a poet/writer, curator, and multi-disciplined artist.  Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.