“Sun Room” and “Living Room,” Lauren Braun
Collage has always been a part of my artistic practice. I envision a world that I can “make over” using existing images from magazines, altered with details from my own handmade drawings and paintings. I look at the spaces that I inhabit and imagine what my personal Utopian version of that space would look like. The collages are a way to fantasize about the potential of a space.
Lauren Braun is a visual artist who creates collages, drawings and paintings. Originally from Buffalo, NY, Lauren moved to Pittsburgh in 2007. Her work has been exhibited throughout the region and most recently in a group exhibit in Kyoto, Japan. See more of her work at www.thelaurenbraun.com
“Hike Dissection,” Nelson Lowhim
This piece is a strictly visual piece of memory of a hike I took. For more, you can check me out on Instagram @lowhimsart.
Nelson Lowhim: Writer, Artist, Immigrant & Veteran. Born in Tanzania and have lived all over. Currently in Seattle. Always working with different ways to tell stories or visualize memories and thoughts.
“Untitled,” Gunjan Rathore
I look for uncertainty. Uncertainty has been a constant in my life, and I try capturing it wherever I can find it. I haven't been trained to become a professional photographer. The pictures I take are a result of observation and learning which I have gathered from people around me. Funnily, and quite unexpectedly the field of law has brought me closer to different styles of photography and forms of art. This picture is of a lane in Bangalore, the city, which has challenged me from time to time and nourished my soul in a way that no other place has been able to.
Gunjan Rathore is a law student in Bangalore, India. She works on advocating better representation of young people in various fields in India along with making sure that the droplets of the knowledge of Indian Constitutional Law can reach the masses. She likes to read, write, swim and take pictures of dogs in her spare time.
“Autumn Tessalate” and “Shoring Orange,” Anthony R. Westenkirchner
I believe abstract beauty thrives in the everyday and mundane; line and texture lends perspective to transform banality into art.
Anthony R. Westenkirchner’s work appears in the Exposition Review, Mud Season Review, Finger Literary Journal, Santa Ana River Review, Juste Milieu Lit, Genre: Urban Arts, 3Elements Review, Bear Review, Fearsome Critters, Tulane Review, and Manhattanville Review. A graduate of Loyola University Chicago, Anthony lives with his wife and three children in Kansas City, Missouri.