Nonfiction Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Walking the Labyrinth by Cindy Carlson ive years have passed since I last visited the tiny park in Newport News, Virginia, that’s nestled between a branch of Lake Maury and the Riverside Regional Medical Center. The area is wooded, remnants of a mixed forest of loblolly and oak that used to surround the slow green water of the lake. Stone walkways wind through a landscaped area ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Fiction Editor: Art and the Universality of Pain by AM Larks “Pain doesn’t have a face and pain doesn’t have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.” —Aunjanue Ellis While everyone else was still sleeping off the revelry that accompanied the last days of 2008, I was at the Getty with my future husband. I walked through the exhibits more quickly than Mark, who ...
Read MoreEditorial Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Letter from the Editor: Caring for One Another by Tracy Granzyk ’m encouraged to report that in only our second issue, our submissions have tripled. I can’t help but wonder if this issue’s theme of Pain is what drew so many people in. We chose this theme believing we would receive work that relieved suffering through art, work that assured readers they were not alone in their ...
Read MoreArt Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Artist’s Statement by Uday Dhar Architecture of Pain by Uday Dhar his series of work was developed in 2019, and was my attempt to come to terms with a mysterious ailment that afflicted me starting in February 2018. Over the course of the year, I had to undergo various invasive medical procedures, and was admitted to hospital twice with near-death situations. Even now, the doctors cannot decide ...
Read MoreArt Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Artist’s Statement by Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb Golden Rope by Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb Girl in the Galaxy by Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb Double Up Intentions by Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb ach piece in this series employs a different medium—mixed media, a silkscreen on a monotype, and acrylic with ink. They come from a found photograph of a woman in a tree, and it isn’t clear what her intentions ...
Read MoreArt Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Artist’s Statement by Sarah Basha Pain May Be Inevitable but Suffering Is Optional by Sarah Basha his photo is of Edith, one of the 13 residents of an Alzheimer’s ward in an independent nursing home I visited during 3 years, capturing her portrait—on Polaroid because Polaroids fade. I had this idea one day when reading that people who work with Polaroids do all sort of things to ...
Read MoreArt Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Artist’s Statement by Jodie Filan lil peep by Jodie Filan he title of the work is lil peep. The drawing started as an RIP for the recently deceased singer of the same name, who died last year of an overdose. This art is 18x24 mixed media on watercolor paper—primarily acrylic paint and prismacolor markers, with details done in colored pencils. In fact, my own blood was used ...
Read MoreArt Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Artist’s Statement by Regina Holliday Cover Image: The Upside Down by Regina Holliday his painting was created during a live conference session at the Telluride Patient Safety Summer Camp for medical and nursing students and resident physicians held in Turf Valley, Maryland, in July 2019. It reflects the importance of the secondary narrative that is often representative of the harmed patient’s perspective in health care. The hot-air ...
Read MoreArt Issue #2: Pain September 19th, 2019 September 19th, 2019 Artist’s Statement by Audrey Jackson The Fast by Audrey Jackson Oil and acrylic on canvas, 26" x 18" his piece is just one of many pieces I've made having to do with eating disorders. The Fast is essentially a self-portrait, I've been battling with anorexia since I was just a child and I wanted to paint something that conveyed what anorexia sometimes felt like to me. In the ...
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