For the February issue, we are tackling love, loss, and indifference.
It's the month of hearts and flowers, or not? this is where you decide...
In the words of ABC "All I'm saying is it takes a lot to love you" (Look of Love, 1982) and we want to scratch the surface and look at the darker side of love. There is an old saying, "Those who love less hold the power". Is it about control, power, or being driven by lust?
Our writer’s pages are not just for work on our theme, but also for any other critique, artist info, poem, or prose.
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Guest Artist -Andre Pace - Q&A
Artist interview:
Explain my practice: New From Art Dealer room & Columnist series of Contemporary Art & Mix media design works on paper " An exciting, Engaging Marvelous, Candid view of the Art World If anyone faintly Curious about the Artist works this is a .ust see.. The Artist intertwined force to empower, inspire & intrigue the art world… It's more of a strategy or a practice that allows for an expanded language and expanded expressions of personality. " playing with traditional "gender-bending Scenarios "…
2. Artist Relevant Today: In many formats NFT, spoken word ( text) As to my medium, I belive art is exciting, and engaging marvelously candid ..from poetry, exhibition, and private view traditional blends and Mix media design concepts.
3. What Artist influenced: Would like to mention the stylistic developments of Jean Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Picasso, Monet, and Warhol, compositions that like many works but would say PopArt. Warhol, Jean Basquait..
4. If I went back 10-20 years of my life I would tell myself confidence, courage is real in different formats, the adventure in life is not a short road, to work hard on your road to clear a path, it can be fun & there is another form of love/ like beside a person…
5. In 10/ 20 years forward what I hoped to have done: The ideas would consist of Columnist conversations and Art dealer’s approaches towards adding my estate to major collections, and major galleries, Beging mentioned ( For Secondary-Market dealers, The emphasis falls more on " knowledge, judgments, and taste & a practice considerations such as condition, authenticity & title. Speaking in a different role in the Art business & finding and
developing new paintings!! Find better strength in myself & towards my work...
Website:
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Name: Douglas Karson
Website
Social media links
https://www.instagram.com/dakartist/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCClq3ZkWlu_ihxf8sKSXWEA
https://www.instagram.com/keepartit/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP3u9karJBUEu7coeXWUwog
Bio
Douglas is a passionate creator and storyteller who is mostly known for his paintings, sculptures, and business, Keep Art It. He has published multiple poems and performs/attends spoken word events and book launches.
Article/Essay Title
Honey, Have you Got the Kids
Abstract
A sad story is written in prose about the loss of loved ones.
Honey, Have you Got the Kids
There were 5 children
3 older boys and 2 younger girls
Marla and Irene
Jack, Jacob and John
Mary and Jason were very proud
They were good parents
Firm on safety
Indulgent in fun
Fans of reading and classical music no matter the volume of the children
Theirs was a happy home
That’s how it was remembered
Until
One day
Tragedy
Their fight did leave
So sad to see
They say no parent should have to see witness the death
It was a true accident
But that was no comfort
The driver felt terrible
But that was no comfort
Death was instant
But that was no comfort
At the start, they just carried on
Like nothing had changed
Jason went to work
Mary went to work
They both went to church on sundays
Soon,
Both began to spend more and more time at work
Reading was the first thing to go
They were too busy
They worked hard to stay busy
Organised the loft
Scrubbed the fridge
Swept the garage
But the couldn’t touch the rooms
Those 5 rooms
The doors stayed closed
The joy was gone from that home
Replaced by the unbearable weight of unspeakable grief
Time passed until there was nothing left to tidy
No floor left unswept
No dish left unpolished
Silence settled in
It was Jason first
Breaking the silence
Bolt upright in bed with cold sweat and hot tears
Repeating and repeating
“Honey, have you got the kids?
“Honey, have you got the kids?”
He left the next day
Gone to seek answers
Mary soon left as well
The house still stands
With 5 unopened doors
Locked away pockets of a happy time
Echoing with the phrase
“Honey, have you got the kids?”
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Name: Cyrus Larcombe Moore
WEBSITE https://cyruslarcombemoore.co.uk
Social https://www.instagram.com/cyrus_poetry/
Bio
I am a queer artist with an Essential Tremor from Dartmoor. I am based in Manchester, studying at the University of Manchester in the final year of my English Literature undergraduate degree. I am a Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award winner. I have been longlisted for the National Poetry Prize and I recently published a collection titled UnPunched.
Article/Essay Title
The First Act of Language was Magic
Abstract
The First Act of Language was Magic is a poem that explores the moment sound was first used to try and communicate complex emotion. It imagines this act as magic. This conception of magic is a philosophical idea, where magic is a term used to connote the spontaneous abstraction of our concrete universe, or our emotional interior, into expression. This abstraction, this magic, is then an artistic utterance. The poem suggests the first attempt may have been to express love and that in succeeding sound became art.
