Table of Contents: Issue 8
Hart
Kate Garrett
Prevention is better than the cure
Kate Garrett
To Waste a Whole Heart in One Kiss
Carys Crossen
*Accompanied by artwork by Aurora*
Every Inch
Juliette van der Molen
First Blot
Juliette van der Molen
Mineral Bouquet
Lindz McLeod
World Building
Lucy Whitehead
The Wayfarer
V.C. McCabe
The Little People or Reflections on Driving Past Murdock McInnis
J.S. MacLean
Aunt Arran
Lia Robles
Next of Kin
Kristin Garth
They Did Not Know
Kristin Garth
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward John Ford
Daniel Ellis
Josef Mengele Song
John Wall Barger
The Collection
Myna Chang
Multiverse theory
Jasmina Kuenzli
Dark Passenger
Ryan Norman
Kicking Up A Stink
Aviva Treger
Racing a Fever Dream for Pinks
E. Samples
On a Bench by the Waters of Oblivion
E. Samples
Hands Clasped
Alice Godliman
gray as melancholy
Linda M. Crate
Sleeping Beauty
Christina Ciufo
Every Scar Has a Story
Laure Van Rensburg
The Light That Shone Here
Ciéra Cree
Six Seeds
Alicia Fitton
Mission Bell
Rory Tanner
Crow Barn
DC Diamondopolous
My Hips: Myrtle Beach Pavilion, Circa 1978
Carol Parris Krauss
Reflective Surfaces
Ryan Purcell
A Peculiar Count in Time
The First Installment
M.K. Beutymhill
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Issue No. 8 Cover Artist: Aurora
Title of Artwork: Aurora Dances
Her artist name is Aurora after the Goddess of Light, the Bringer of Dawn after the dark night of the soul. She’s an Amsterdam-based artist, all her works are oil paintings on canvas as she paints images in the tradition of magical realism with loads of symbolism and using the traditional oil painting techniques of the old Dutch masters. From 1995-1999 she followed a four-year drawing and painting education at the Drawing Academy Three of a Kind in Amsterdam. Thereafter, she had various exhibitions where she received emotional reactions to her art. People identified themselves in her paintings and somehow felt supported; her work is universal. Not only do her paintings convey her life-story in pictures, color and emotion, they tell the story of humanity at large. A few years later she craved a deepening of her technique and in 2006 she took a two-year schooling of Traditional Painting at the Free Academy of the Arts in Amsterdam. Here she was educated in Dutch Golden Age painting, painting like the old Dutch Masters of the 17th century, learning techniques like underpainting/dead-coloring, Chiaroscuro, and glazing to bring out the vibrancy of color and the delicate interplay of light and darkness.
In Symbolism art represents absolute truths that can only be described indirectly. Its sole purpose is to express the Ideal in a perceptible form by endowing images with symbolic meaning. The symbolist uses mystical, mythological, visionary, otherworldly and dream imagery which are intensely personal to represent particular states of mind, heart and soul. The imagery originates from her deep, intense feelings that want to be portrayed. Everything in her work is symbolic, the use of color, nature, the posture of the figures, facial expressions and apparel as you can thus display great truths in a gentle, yet direct way. She blends her style with Magical Realism, a direction in art which connects this reality to a higher reality by painting a realistic view of the mundane world while adding magical elements like fables, myths, legends, parables, or the supernatural, so visionary images and dreamlike effects occur. And she ads both Fantastic Art which explores fantasy, imagination, visions, mysticism, myths, folklore, the dream state, and the supernatural, and portrays these themes representational and naturalistic rather than abstract. And Religious Art which depicts supernatural, religious or miraculous subjects in a naturalistic way intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual.
Furthermore, she’s writing a spiritual memoir and presiding over Stichting De Mussen Toevlucht, a charity that preserves an endangered bird-species in the Netherlands.
You can find her at; www.aurora.exto.nl, www.stichtingdemussentoevlucht.nl, https://aurorasekhmet.jouwweb.nl/


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