Art Issue #9: Open Call November 19th, 2021 November 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Alan Bern hotographs often capture and present moments. To collect these moments and for the great good health of body and mind, I take walks—yes, I walk my neighborhood streets daily and also beyond—and I capture moments, sometimes with the camera on my iPhone, sometimes with a few words, and sometimes with both. Snap snap. I regularly walk in my neighborhood where ...

Art Issue #9: Open Call November 19th, 2021 November 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Maroula Blades From Darkness to Light by Maroula Blades ince the pandemic has taken hold, I have wandered much around wooded areas. To see green and light nourishes me, body, mind, and soul. As I visited the Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände in Berlin, Germany, where this photograph was taken, I was almost overwhelmed by the suffocating darkness and coldness of the tunnel. It was suppressive ...

Art Issue #9: Open Call November 19th, 2021 November 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Jerome Berglund Trek by Jerome Berglund hen I first got sober close to a decade ago, then later after I moved back to Minnesota from California with what little I could carry and stuff into my rust-buckety old Mazda, which still somehow continues running to this day, I found all of a sudden that I had no interest in photographing people any longer. ...

Art Issue #9: Open Call November 19th, 2021 November 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Emanuela Iorga Cover Image: The Spine 2 believe my drawings have to do with searching for a physical and spiritual balance—the unconscious pursuit of equilibrium. I began drawing late at night, while processing a range of tangled thoughts and emotions. I found it easier to sort them out once I translated them into dots and lines. In time, my dots and lines ...

Art Issue #9: Open Call November 19th, 2021 November 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by James Wojno Aquinna Beach, Martha’s Vineyard ne of the most healing and relaxing experience I know is to gaze out at vast expanses of water, ocean and sky, letting go of thoughts, and just breathing in the constant motion of waves and clouds. As a landscape photographer, I attempt I make images not to record a scene as it appears, but to compose ...

Art Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Cindy Phan Bellevue Botanical Garden by Cindy Phan apanese shrine captured on Nikon D5500 digital SLR with 18-55mm lens. Natural lighting was used and very minimal editing was done.Cindy Phan is an ice skater, inline skater, and outdoor adventurer. She prides herself in being that one friend you’ll never get bored around, as she’s full of ideas and always tries to get ...

Art Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Tracy Whiteside Drowning My Sorrows by Tracy Whiteside rowning My Sorrows was born from so many emotions. The feeling of failure, of hopelessness, of sinking. The girl is not fighting. She has surrendered. I think there are moments when we all feel like giving up. We are just tired of trying to climb out of the sand pit. But when she hits ...