COELACANTH By Arna Miller Published Issue 081, September 2020 Why did you rise from the sea? Coelacanths are real fish, who exist today, and they are also mythological creatures we’ve assigned to represent evolution. For this coelacanth, the sea was certainly home, but land was an intoxicating adventure waiting to be explored. There was food […]
WAY BACK By Visions Collage Published Issue 081, September 2020 Steve Haney — aka Visions Collage — is a visual collage artist and a percussionist for Jungle Fire, a Los Angeles-based TropiFunk juggernaut that digs deep into Afro/Latin Funk with an approach that is authentic and highly explosive.
THE PACK Originally printed in The Journal: A Literary Magazine By Amy Guidry Published Issue 081, September 2020 ABOUT THE ARTIST: Amy Guidry (b. 1976, Jacksonville, N.C.) is an American artist residing in Lafayette, Louisiana. She grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. Guidry comes from a family of artists including the
THE SOUND OF SILENCE By Curtis Bergesen Published Issue 081, September 2020 Curtis Bergesen — aka Collage The World — was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Bethesda, MD. He is a vegetarian, only child, Eagle Scout and nature lover. Curtis has spent much of his adult life working in the music business.
NIGHTHAWK-9 By Mike McKenney Published Issue 081, September 2020 Mike McKenney aka @the_real_theory is Artist, Founder & CEO @artgrab.co. Originally from Manchester, CT, he went to school at the University of Vermont. His wife Michelle, daughter Olivia, and boxer Alpine reside in the Salt Lake City area where they enjoy skiing and the mountains. His “real
GENERAL GRIEVOUS SKETCH By Kevin Waltz Published Issue 081, September 2020 Kevin Waltz is an illustrator and graphic artist living in Denver, CO. He is an alumni of the University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in drawing and graphic design. His work entails anything design and illustrative
TEA FOR THE ETERNAL EMPEROR By Joel Tagert Art by Dylan Fowler Published Issue 081, September 2020 Despite the thin air and the cold, Pleven and Emma spent nearly the entire eight-hour flight across the Cauldron on the observation deck, talking together and looking eagerly at the roiling clouds below them, lit intermittently by flashes
MAKING IT THROUGH: QUINN IN QUARANTIMES Interview By Carsen Greene Photos courtesy of Quinn Tincher Published Issue 081, September 2020 The Meow Wolf artist talks miniatures, mountains and making art through COVID-19 Quinn Tincher, founding member and Senior Artist at Meow Wolf, is still making and creating from his home. He’s been in quarantine, along
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BOOK CLUB By Hana Zittel Published Issue 081, September 2020 Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (2020) Poet, translator and essayist Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s newest book takes his enchanting and poetic language into the realm of memoir. Castillo details growing up undocumented in California after his family crosses to the United States from Zacatecas, Mexico.
QUEEN CITY SOUNDS By Tom Murphy Published Issue 081, September 2020 Blackcell – Burn the Ashes Denver-based EBM/IDM band Blackcell returns with its first full-length album since 2013’s In the Key of Black. Matt Jones’ processed, distorted vocals sound as ever like a dispossessed human resisting an ever-increasing mechanization of life. These dark dance songs