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art & poetry by lilith kulp

9/18/2017

 
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Lilith Kulp is a 22 year old non-binary trans womxn living in Philadelphia. When she's not under selling her labor to the capitalist machine, she's writing poetry or sketching up a portrait.You can follow her for updates about her projects to come on her Instagram @shimanthajones or on Twitter @goldstarbi

glitter erasures by sara adams

6/16/2017

 

WAFFLES

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DEAD-END ROADS

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KIDS

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Waffles: A found poem from: King, Stephen. Cujo. Viking Press, 1981. P. 105.
Dead-End Roads: A found poem from: King, Stephen. Cujo. Viking Press, 1981. P. 296.
Kids: A found poem from: King, Stephen. Cujo. Viking Press, 1981. P. 27.
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Sara Adams (kartoshkaaaaa.com) is the author of two poetry e-chapbooks: Think Like a B (SOd Press) & We All Have to Keep our Heads (Ghost City Press) and two print chapbooks: Poems for Ivan (Porkbelly Press) & Western Diseases (dancing girl press). Sara has work in publications such as DIAGRAM and Queen Mob's Tea House. She lives in Portland, OR.

peeling by jourden v. sander

6/9/2017

 
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Jourden V. Sander is a bookseller, writer and the EIC of lit zine Feminine Inquiryin Austin, TX. She’s been published a few places including The Fem, Five2One, The Rumpus, Ghost City Press, Maudlin House, the Austin International Poetry Festival 2015 anthology Di-Vêrsé-City, and others. She wears a different color lipstick every day of the week and finds you suspicious. She says hello! Follow her on twitter @jourdensander.

girl plus ___ project by emma banks

1/18/2017

 

WHAT IS GIRL PLUS ___?

"girl plus ___ is a project that aims to explore spaces & the women that live there. i started this photo series as a way to share my girl gang with the world. all of my friends were doing really incredible things, spreading light in their own way and fulfilling creative endeavors that spoke to them, and it felt like someone outside of our circle should know. it’s a cool thing to create a little corner of the internet for “your kind of people,” and then make connections beyond that. definitely something i had not taken advantage of prior to this project! 
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i really hope that with these photos and interviews, readers/viewers can visit the world of each person, make connections, bridge the gap, and hopefully see a little bit more of their own potential in the process. what started as a fun side project has become much more purposeful, and i’d love to keep moving in that direction. as always, i’m super thankful for each visitor and whatever impact (if any) these stories have on their lives. my beginning statement has always been the most important truth of this project and i think it’s the best way to give you the gist: we embrace both the mundane & the extraordinary. each person is a tiny, incredible star in the universe. ​"

EXCERPTS FROM GIRL + BROOKLYN

head over to http://girl--plus.com/ for more photos and interviews from brooklyn, austin, manhattan, dallas and san luis obispo.

christina

at the whitney museum of art, meatpacking district, manhattan

i spent my first month in new york roaming around the city aimlessly, totally solo and without a clue. enter christina: the saving grace i met one sunday after church who heaved me out of my solitude and into the frenzy that is her nyc social life. 

christina is currently in grad school at colombia studying arts administration, & she'll probably be running coachella and acl one day so keep an eye out for this one...she's rad.

"After working as a fashion/lifestyle publicist for a couple of years, I decided I needed a change. So I went back to school. It has been amazing. I feel like I'm exploring new interests and possibilities I had never considered. I am excited about the future. However, having to do homework after thinking I was done with that part of my life can be annoying, but it's only for a short time. I'll deal."

where are you from? I spent my formative years in Cincinnati, OH, but I also claim Houston, TX and Richmond, VA. It depends on who I'm talking to.

what do you do? I am a graduate student at Columbia University studying Arts Administration, which is basically a nonprofit business management degree with a focus on the arts. I'm hoping to work in music festival planning and programming one day, but recently I've been obsessed with idea of working at the Brooklyn Museum or BAM.

style is...mixed prints, bright colors, funky African prints.

i start every morning…by checking my horoscope. If it's positive, it's like a pep talk. If not, I'm like these are all lies! Haha

one thing i couldn't live without...my planner. I'm a Virgo...

3 women i admire: Erykah Badu, Solange Knowles, and Cipriana Quann of Urban Bush Babes on the basis of their style.

i am most well-known for...being the social coordinator for my friends. I really enjoy bringing people together.

vintage is...for mixing with new pieces.

i like it when girls...can accept a compliment without feeling the need to reciprocate or deny it. It really is an art.

i like it when guys...are feminists.

lipstick...should be bold/make you feel bold.

the best outfit i ever wore...navy loose top with white polka dots tucked into my favorite high-waisted paisley pants with black booties. I wore it to the BK Museum Artist Ball recently, and I got compliments all night long. I felt like the belle of the ball.

everyday…is a new day.

the best thing about Brooklyn is...diversity. Diverse neighborhoods, diverse people, and diverse things to do. I can't get enough. 

currently reading: White Teeth by Zadie Smith

currently listening to: Mean Lady, Tei Shi, and Tennis

favorite phrase or quotation: "You are who you think you can't be."

i'll never forget...the day I moved to Brooklyn. August 16, 2012. 

i'll always...have my nose ring. I'd feel naked without it.

joy

at her home in greenpoint, brooklyn

joy is defined as "a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated; elation." i think it's safe to say that, for anyone that knows her, joy is so far living up to her name. no small feat! 

truly, i've never met anyone that is so full of life and laughter. it's easy to photograph someone with so much gusto and i couldn't have enjoyed my visit to her home more. thanks for having me! 

"I have filled my room with things that make me happy. I like to call it my Tacky Nightclub. I have weird things everywhere, pink flamingos, SNL prints, a 7’ inflatable shark, a disco ball and a whole ton of color everywhere in between. You can find wigs and costume pieces under my bed just in case there is a parade outside that I need to run out and join.

It feels pretty good to wake up every morning under a disco ball. I don't want my main environment to be serious. I want to laugh and for it to feel like it’s truly me, so a jumbled mess of crazy things that somehow maybe work together. It helps me feel more creative. I like how bright it is. My mood lifts when I’m in it. My whole apartment is like that though, bright. I don't have a closet and I used to not love that all my clothes are hanging on a rack in my room, but now I love it. It’s like art, but I get to wear it everyday. My favorite thing about my place though, is the amount of people that are in it. I feel like it is a great place for friends to come and hang and laugh. I always wanted to have a place that friends want to come to and now I think I do. So come over anytime!"

where are you from? Germantown Hills, Illinois.

what do you do? Wardrobe for film/ tell dumb jokes.

style is...whatever you feel like so that you are no longer naked

i start every morning…telling myself to freakin get out of bed already Joy!! 

one thing i couldn't live without...deodorant (being honest here).

3 women i admire: My mom, Tina Fey, My past professor Dr. Brunson.

i am most well-known for my...very loud voice…and laugh.

vintage is for...everything but underwear. 

i like it when girls...are unafraid to tell risky jokes.

i like it when guys...laugh at those jokes.

lipstick...I start with it on, but somehow it never stays.
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the best outfit i ever wore...I have one of those very large t-shirts with a bikini painted on it, whenever I wear that and roller blades, I feel pretty damn good.

everyday…I watch something that will make me laugh, most likely an SNL clip.

the best thing about greenpoint is...the amount of old polish men always drinking on their stoops.

currently reading: Yes Please by Amy Poehler.

currently listening to: Killin the Vibe by Ducktails.

favorite phrase or quotation: “Life’s short. Stunt it.” –Rod Kimble aka Hot Rod (and every other line in that movie).

i’ll never...say no to ice-cream.

i'll always...stop for ice-cream.

tiffany

​in greenpoint, brooklyn

tiffany: one part production coordinator, one part editor, one part creator, all parts texan. she's a fellow austin ex-pat turned new yorker, incredibly busy 24/7, and has a funny obsession with this chris isaak music video (it's fantastic, if you were wondering).

she's also the creator/editor of voyeur, a personal project that takes a look at the daily lives of people via disposable cameras, so she's no stranger to the film game. lucky us... 

name: Tiffany Diane Tso

where are you from? Texas!

what do you do? I work in production for PHHHOTO and am the Features Director for LADYGUNN Magazine.

style is...better than fashion.

i start every morning...by trying to bargain with my alarm clock for more sleep. 

one thing i couldn't live without...laughter.

3 women i admire: My grandmother, for raising six children of her own and still having the generosity to take two more in. My mother, for coming to this country without much and making a career for herself. Women writers. 

i am most well-known for my...disgusting humor and tiny hands.

vintage is...forever.

i like it when girls...are chillers. 

i like it when guys...are Southern.

lipstick is...hard.

the best outfit i ever wore...was probably patterned.

everyday...is the worst/best.

currently reading: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

currently listening: to a lot of Wiz Khalifa.

favorite phrase or quotation: "From my rotting body, flowers will grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity." - Edvard Munch

i’ll never...smoke cigarettes.

i'll always...recycle.
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emma is a writer & photographer currently living in new york city. 
you can see more of her work here: www.emmacbanks.com or say hi on instagram, @emmacbanks. 

art by alexander c. solomon 

12/14/2016

 
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Alexander C. Solomon is (not-for-too-much-longer) a Boston based writer, photographer, and singer originally from Omaha, Nebraska. In the summer of 2012, Alexander lived in Baden-bei-Wien Austria, where he studied twentieth-century German poetry, and discovered his desire to write. Photography was always a part of Alexander's life and travels, but only recently did he merge it with his writing. The inspiration for his work is found in travel, meditation, and his dreaming life. He's coined his works “Illuminations” after the medieval art of illuminating manuscripts, for which an artist would take meaningful text and paint or “illuminate” the words with symbols and scenes. After seven years of writing, this collection is the first time Alexander's work has been published – which is a pretty big deal – so thank you to Sea Foam Mag! Check out more of his work HERE and find him on Instagram HERE.

art by mrcz 

11/26/2016

 
MRCZ (Marcos) is a Brazilian artist born in 1991. He was born into a small town of ~3000 people and lived for years in a countryside house with his parents, which he believes to have changed him forever. He currently lives in the large city of Porto Alegre where he works in publicity. He started his artistic work in 2015, creating daily between college design courses and work. His main objective was to make something he could pour his entire heart into - to immerse himself completely. His productions are a way of expressing the challenges that come with the responsibilities of adulthood in a grand city. His inspirations include comics, music, the human mind and its gimmicks, philosophy, fiction and science.  You can find more of his work here.  

archiving strategies - the next installation of the mai visti e altre storie project

10/26/2016

 
Mai Visti e Altre Storie continues!

On October 27th, the exhibition Archiving Strategies will open at the Arteco Temporary Space.  The exhibit is included in the wider context of Nesxt, an observatory in progress about the no-profit sphere intended as a fundamental and necessary area of the Art system - an independent research and experimentation zone in an incessant metamorphosis.

Archiving, recording, cataloging and preserving are common words in the context of contemporary artistic practice, conveying not only the necessity of transmission of memory, but also touching on varieties of reception.

In the rooms of an empty house hosting the Arteco Temporary Space, original artworks from artists belonging to the Mai Visti e Altre Storie archive show a plurality of archiving practices that start with the necessity of  preserving memories of daily-use objects through musealization, presented here in the photographic and cataloging objects of the Museum of Anthropology and Etnography of the University of Turin.  Liliana Macario who "knits the weave" of her own memories into a unique, long scarf, takes an intimate approach to memory.  Also on display is the extremely declared strategy pursued by Gaetano Carusotto through unfinished writing.  You'll also find patiently created artworks by Ernesto Levesque, in which text and watercolour have a dialogue.

Mai Visti e Altre Storie (Never Seen and Other Stories) is an archive preserving and enhancing Outsider Art in the Piedmont area.  It provides opportunities to reflect on the permeability of the boundaries between concepts as mainstream and outsider, commonness and abnormality, considering art and culture as shared heritage and instruments for active citizenship.  Click HERE for a full list of partners and to learn more.

2 pieces by prairie m. faul

10/6/2016

 

A BODY (A)MAZE

The walls are tense periwinkle tendon like someone's been smoking on the job and all the floorplans got lost in the confusion. Like we decided arteries make for great architecture so they made these four dovetails rest on a sigh; I think there’s a fault line beneath my bed. I think memory is like packing a list and watching as unfurling it shows how blank it can become. I think i can't remember my dreams. I think im still having them. I’ve been spilling seeds before sleep and all these knotted cherry stems are growing around like they own the place. this is another space ive regretfully made for fallopian metaphors. One day i woke up and ive felt tired ever since; one night i went to sleep with all my teeth a-sweating and awoke to all this hair. When i part it to the left i can breathe without calves tingling of suspicion; When I part it to the right i can laugh in that pitch that makes you think of hairless youth. Most of the time I’ll just lie there between tickling&itching about dreams i cant remember. What lives in between locks of hair? Cause there's a whole lot of space between mine and its keeping me awake at night wondering if i should be saying hello. What's it like to be a home? Im living a new life with every closed door, im birthing selves that tumble out of four walls, a rushed job that sits helter-skelter on the sidewalk right along the way to work and i don't know any routes to avoid seeing it. I think this, like all of this, might be one big question about the different ways things might taste in the outside of the inside. What does it mean that i've never received a text in my dreams? I think it might say alot about what it means to have expectations. Sometimes i forget where i am but that's okay since you gave me these months to remember i'm doing a really good job knowing what time we’re both living in. I want to show you all the things i’ve collected, i want to lay them out in front of rocks by the sea, i want to find the right placement of them next to each other as if to say ‘here’s everything i know about being alive its not alot but i think you’ll appreciate the attention to detail.’ Maybe we could spend nights next to the sea and harvest all the tree bones that wash ashore. Maybe we could build a house ourselves. I could shave off all this hair and everyone could find a space between the locks to live in. I could say hello how are you doing out there. And they would say oh we’re well, things are feeling good again. 

I HAVE THIS PICTURE OF ME

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Prairie M. Faul is a Cajun poet and flagrant transsexual from Louisiana. She is the author of the micro-chap Root-Heart. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Inferior Planets, FogMachine, and The Wanderer. Her collected work can be found at motsduprairie.tumblr.com

pastels & poetry by raychel reimer

8/8/2016

 
What: 'Pastels & Poetry' is an ongoing poetry/photo project by published writer, Raychel Reimer. Reimer visually showcases her poetry works in uniquely assembled frames to catch the reader's eye. The purpose of the bold colour use in Reimer's project is to not shy away from her own personal femininity, and to deconstruct the idea that bright colours are gendered or juvenile. 

Who: Raychel Reimer is a freelance artist based out of Vancouver, Canada. She studied Media Arts at Sheridan Institute in Toronto where she specialized in documentary filmmaking. A lover of many platforms, Reimer is not only an award-winning documentary filmmaker, but also a photographer, writer and mixed media artist. She continues to create raw, non-fiction art in all of these mediums. | www.raychelreimer.com | @RRxWords

i don't love myself yet, but i'm learning to by izzy leslie

7/20/2016

 
(glo worm press published this piece first & we really love them a lot)
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Izzy Leslie (@badplantmom) was born in 1992 in Plano, Texas. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her cat Frida. She feels like Dawn Wiener most of the time. 
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