K. L. Johnston

July 2021 | visual art

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Fortress IV

 

L. Johnston

L. Johnston first realized an interest in photography after she managed to wrangle seven kids to adulthood. Traveling with the SC ETV Endowment gave her the opportunity to explore wider environments, and her first published photos appeared in that organization’s in-house magazine. She is an opportunistic photographer and the only planning that goes into her photography lies in taking her camera with her wherever she goes. That being said, the photographic urge has led her into some strange and wonderful places. The majority of her subjects are environmental, and she looks for images of details, places, or things that may be overlooked.

Nathan Gentry

July 2021 | visual art

Sunsets Ending

 

Nathan Gentry

Nathan Gentry is a visual artist and writer who primarily works with the photographic medium and is interested in highlighting the relationship humans have between each other, as well as their relationship with the world in which they live in. Exposing the way in which the living world interacts through communication and physical use is a common visual portrayal that Nathan intends to create through photographic processes. His work often requires experimentation and manipulation to create the communicative experience that is often personified in real life.

Ann Fischer

July 2021 | visual art

Alone

Spring

Trees

 

Ann Fischer

Ann Fischer is a writer and photographer living in Toronto, Ontario in an Artscape community on the lake. Her photographs are often of women, girls, flowers, and landscapes. During the pandemic she’s been experimenting with blurring her photos to describe the way so much of our lives have become less sharp and more blurred as the pandemic marches on.

Protection

July 2021 | poetry

A year ago if somebody had said AstraZeneca

I would have thought

South African tennis player, German sports car

the hot AK47 toting freedom fighter

that was my imaginary, Nazi slaughtering, girlfriend

in a war I was never in

 

Even the smugly lensed boffins in Oxford

dipping their Hobnobs, hypothesising

over the powerfully entitled thrust of

Boris Johnson, their sly Megan phantasies

would have calculated a blank.

 

I was lucky to get it

walked into the no name pharmacy

between anonymous suburbs

on an early spring day

 

for a grumpy old white man like me, to

stab me with a needle

then mass stab a line of other old white dudes

perhaps thinking, I hope, like me,

 

we had given another chance, this entitlement

will give us time to understand, what it is to live.

 

Alan Hill

Alan Hill is the former Poet Laureate of the small City of New Westminster in western Canada. He came to Canada in 2005 after meeting his Vietnamese- Canadian wife to be whilst they were both working in Botswana.

Featured Artist: Michael Hower

July 2021 | visual art

The Instrumentalists

The Muckers

The Precisionists

 

Michael Hower

Michael Hower is an artist and photographer from Central Pennsylvania. His work focuses on historical themes. He photographs historical and abandoned places, depicting human objects and structures in modified environments now devoid of human activity. For him, the artwork is always more than the photograph. It is also about the research, the place-seeking journey and the telling of forgotten stories after the capture is made. His artwork has been displayed in galleries, museums, and publications around the country.