Sonder Seclusion #7 See Faizan Adil’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7 digital photograph Sonder Seclusion is an opinion-based presentation of how I envision human emotions, so that the viewer can interpret them within the frame of their own personal references as chaotic nature. The majority of these works are stacked images, reminiscent of Alexey…
Literary Spotlight: Robert Klose
From WTP Vol. VI #7 Sisters By Robert Klose If all the Russians in my small Maine town were planets, then Galina Sergeivna would be the star they orbited. In good times and bad, in joy or need, she was their center, their stillpoint. Nothing they said or experienced could surprise her. Having survived the…
Art Roundup: Los Angeles
Summer 2018 Highlights By Emily Nimptsch, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Notions of representation and diversity lie at the very heart of…
Art Roundup: New Hampshire/Vermont
Summer 2018 Highlights By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. By design—or by happenstance—Vermont and New Hampshire galleries were showcasing…
Site Review: Jean Sbarra Jones
Dresses as Poetry and Metaphor By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Jean Sbarra Jones is an award-winning artist living and working in Salem, Massachusetts, whose series of acrylic paintings of women’s dresses has earned significant critical acclaim. On her site, she documents the painting of this dress over the period of a decade: first worn by…
Site Review: Laurie Borggreve
Innovative Use of Everyday Materials By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Laurie Borggreve is a mixed-media sculptress who delights in discovering new ways to use conventional materials. Hundreds, if not thousands, of individual components that alternate between precise assembly and fluid composition characterize the work on her website. Her ambitious compositions are informed by current events,…
Art Spotlight: Khaled Akil
Inversion See Khaled Akil’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7 Diasec mounting print 55” x 39.5” This modern society that we have created for ourselves is like a fishbowl. We have forgotten our natural relationship to the world by limiting ourselves to this artificial habitat. For each work in this series, I started by scanning…
Literary Spotlight: Jeff McRae
See more of their work in Vol. VI #7 The Heart’s Bones By Jeff McRae The birds, I’ve heard them a thousand times before but they are still exotic to me. It’s not fair, all the ways you can hate someone by loving them. A twist, as they say. One that breaks the heart’s bones.…
Inside the Studio: Emily M. Rangel-Cascio
See Rangel-Cascio’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7. Inside the Studio offers a behind-the scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer At Northern Illinois University, ceramic artist Emily M. Rangel-Cascio turned a windowless, plain studio into a…
Inside the Studio: David Criner
See Criner’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7. Inside the Studio offers a behind-the scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For David Criner, a basement studio has become his sanctuary. There, in his Chicago home, his…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A HISTORY OF SILENCE: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT DAY by Alain Corbin, translated by Jean Birrell (Cambridge, UK & Medford, MA, USA: Polity Press, June 2018). 160 pp, paperback $19.95. Also available as hardcover and e-book. French edition: Paris: Éditions…
Art Spotlight: Juno Morrow
Hypnagogia See Juno Morrow’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7 digital photograph I am intoxicated by beautiful light and dramatic contrast. I am captivated by structure, geometry, and pattern. By decontextualizing mundane subjects, my hope is to expose emotionally raw undercurrents, instilling wonder. Visually, my work is used to deconstruct spatial relationships and explore dimensionality.…