Visual Art

The Language of Water

Lana Eileen is a musician and visual artist currently based in Australia. Through painting, photography and sculpture, Eileen’s work fuses abstract elements with fine details. In 2019, she undertook an artist residency in remote Iceland. Previously based in New Zealand, Eileen currently resides on the island of Tasmania, where she attends the School of Creative Arts and Media. More can be found on her website: http://lanaeileen.com

Mors Iustia

M. Patrick Riggin is an artist, writer and musician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician while studying journalism and history for his undergraduate degree. M. Patrick has been a writer and artist for many years and is just starting to enter the publishing and commercial art world. He also is skilled in leathercraft and antique restoration that includes typewriters and antique tools. For information on his literary and artistic journey, and more of his works, he can be reached at mpatrickriggin.com.

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Both a freelance cartoonist and writer, Berin Aptoula (@pilldroid) is a graduate of the High School of Art and Design and Hunter College. Awarded a Creative Excellence Award, she is working on an MFA in Creative Writing at Adelphi University. If you're ever looking for her or find yourself in need of miscellaneous new wave facts, check your local discotheque—she's that Balkan androgyne grooving under the alias "Balkan Villain."

In the Town of Diners and Pomegranates

Yarden Tsfoni is an Israeli painter and archaeologist from the town of Modi’in. Her artwork focuses on the built world and the humans who occupy these spaces in relation to lived dailiness. Her deep understanding of material culture and its reflection of the human experience, expression, and emotion finds its way to the canvas as it does to the history page. Reach her by email : Yarden.j.tsfoni@gmail.com or on Instagram: @Yarten._ 

The World - Tarot Card from the Sapphic Enchantress Tarot Deck

Ayshe-Mira Yashin (she/her) is an 18-year-old illustration artist from Istanbul, Turkey, and Nicosia, Cyprus. She is based in London, England, and is an art foundation student at UAL (Camberwell). She is of Jewish and Muslim heritage, and is a practicing witch. Themes of the occult and spirituality are often incorporated into her art, one of her most recent projects being the Sapphic Enchantress Tarot Deck, a tarot deck representing queer and femme bodies, exploring divine femininity. You can find the tarot deck, as well as her other zines, handmade notebooks and art prints, on her independently managed shop, or on Etsy (see links below). She is currently working on an illustrated poetry zine, to be published by Zines and Things (Portland, OR) in 2022. Her art has been exhibited at The Holy Art Gallery (Hackney, London) and at M. A. D. S. (Milan, Italy). She was awarded the Power of Creativity award (by Contemporary Art Creator Magazine) in 2021. Reach her via her Website/online portfolio/shop: https://www.ayshemira.com Etsy: @theillustrationwitch
Instagram or TikTok: @illustrationwitch Facebook or Upwork: Ayshe-Mira Yashin or by email: ayshemirawrites@gmail.com

The Polar Meltdown

Bryan Kim is a 15-year-old sophomore attending Seoul International School in South Korea. His other hobbies include playing basketball and watching action movies. He is currently preparing his portfolio for university.

Cursive

Kiha Ahn is a tenth grader attending Walnut Hill School of the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. He is currently putting together his art portfolio for university.

she was last seen leaving Jeffrey Epstein's upper east side mansion

Katelyn Kopenhaver is a photographer and multimedia artist originally from Doylestown, Pennslyvania. Kopenhaver's conceptual works and performances investigate and expose atrocities that society has been conditioned to accept or has come to ignore. She attempts to bring the viewer into those untold, quieted narratives and the lives they represent while simultaneously forcing the viewer to question their role as witness. Pulling from buried investigations, omitted corruption, and everyday spontaneous acts of violence along with personal fears, experiences, paranoias, and anxieties - the result is one of  experiential and unavoidable moments of isolation. She disrupts and interrogates manipulations surrounding information, predation, power, violence, and trauma while simultaneously examines and reveals how culture and society handle such topics. Kopenhaver is preoccupied with societal oversight, crucial moments that are seen but forgotten, the glimpse of an act between two people that alarms us, an instant where we ask ourselves, "should I intervene?"

Katelyn Kopenhaver received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She has been a guest lecturer at Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts and has participated in panel discussions at Pen + Brush and Plaxall Gallery in New York. Kopenhaver has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally, including New York Magazine, Netflix, ABC News, and The Brooklyn Rail. She has recently completed her first book, "During the Day But Mostly At Night," a compilation of haunting text and visuals published and commissioned by Pen + Brush. She has also had the honor of being awarded the 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work this year. Kopenhaver can be contacted at Katelyn.Kopenhaver@gmail.com and also found on Instagram @KatelynKopenhaver

'Artist of The Beautiful' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Maithili is a full time student and illustrator pursuing her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She enjoys working with a combination of inks, watercolour and digital mediums. Her work tends to draw from her personal experiences. She is also continually inspired by her Indian culture.

Letter No. 20 from the Series Letters from Utopia

Erika Kassnel-Henneberg is a concept artist, designer and web developer. She studied at the University of the Arts in Bern / CH and at the University of Augsburg / DE. Today she lives and works in a small village in Bavaria / Germany. Her works are visual-conceptual thought constructs. They move between new media, video, sound, collage and printmaking. The focus of her interest is the human being with his subjective perception and his ability to remember, forget, associate and - consciously or unconsciously - create his own utopia. Her artistic works are shown internationally in exhibitions and festivals, such as the International Video Art House Festival in Madrid / ES , Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo / BR and others.

"We are the narrative of our own memory and the memory of others about us. This is how our identity is formed in a chronological context. But today we know that memory is neither true, nor objective, nor complete. In the digital age, cloud archives with huge storage volumes are our memory. They forget nothing. I see in this an existential doubt: can I trust my memory? Who am I really? If I leave no trace, did I ever exist?  - Or has not forgetting perhaps become an obsession?" (Erika Kassnel-Henneberg)

Get in touch via her website https://eri-kassnel.de , https://vimeo.com/designbewegt , https://www.works.io/eri-kassnel or Email: look@eri-kassnel.de

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Nicoline Franziska is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Parsons, The New School for Design in 2019 with a BFA in Fine Arts. She grew up between Munich, Toronto, and Virginia, and is fluent in English and German. Her primary focus is in oil painting and pastel drawing, with a growing interest in stop motion animation. Drawing from the tradition of storytelling as an act of sharing and passing down information, Franziska’s paintings investigate language. In our present world, information is transmitted instantly and constantly but rarely preserved outside of almost entirely intangible lines of codes dictating the functions of information. Franziska’s paintings and drawings are heavily process based and study constantly evolving relationships between biomorphic forms which dance, float, and intertwine in often macabre spaces as they search for home. A procession of figures often behaves like a series of characters in a theatrical performance. Varying personalities enter and exit the frame as they seek their sense of place. Her paintings establish a sense of permanence and tangibility. As her work is heavily influenced by ballet, jazz, and theater, each of which exists in time and relies on sensitive collaborations between dancers, instruments, and actors, her work not only embodies movement and conversation but also indicates a passing of time within the two-dimensional space. Reach her via her website: www.nicolinefranziska.com email: nicolinefranziska@gmail.com or social media: @nicofranziska