The West Through a Plastic Lens
by E.E. McCollum
Photographer E.E. McCollum uses a Holga—a plastic camera known for its low-fi aesthetic—to offer a unique perspective of the North American west.
You’re Doing Good, Old Girl
by Tyler Toy
“As much as she can look into Lorna's eyes, she cannot tell if Lorna feels any sense of her mortality, any sense that she is old, reaching the end of her body, the end of what her bones and muscles and heart and lungs will sustain”…
Heart Mountain
by Lena (Sunada-Matsumura) Newlin
“Some years, an afternoon hail storm passes through, stripping the leaves and fruit down to their stems, and within minutes I lose everything that I have cultivated. But our stomachs don’t know the pangs of hunger”…
Possession
by Connie Wieneke
“as if a great horned owl
with its spit-muck feathers and agile bones
needs know anything about clear title”…
Looking for Querencia
by Margo Chávez
“I have always been lured by the call of the “there.” And I have been lured by the call of the “here.” Torn between the two. Stay or go? Go or stay? I have gone far away”…
Aphonopelma hentzi
by Nancy Beauregard
“black birds / bobbing for oil
in stripped fields / of burnt weeds”…
Looking for the Marfa Lights
by Keith Polette
“Remember to speak softly to whatever is rumbling behind your strongest persona. This is how you can invite the light”…
The Ones They Left
by August Brown
“Summer was settling in and nothing was left but the throbbing freeway and the broken bodies of the ones who hadn’t made it out.“…
Water is Thicker Than Blood
by Beihua Guo
Los Angeles-based artist Beihua Guo uses projection, news headlines, and archived photographs to explore the troubled and still-unfolding story of the Los Angeles aqueduct and the environment and people it impacted.
Eight Easy Curves
by E.M. Sloan
"Had I conceded, I would not have enjoyed spouting a few rounds of Billie Joe McAllister up on Choctaw Ridge as I cruised American Ridge. Or savored the pleasure of that knoll-top residence reminiscent of Tuscany, edged with this fall’s dazzling Lombardy poplar trees stabbing the sky"…
If You Treat Them Right
by William Cass
“She’d never seen a soul there and was glad to consider it abandoned until she arose early one morning in mid-December to find a beat-up sedan and a pick-up truck parked haphazardly in front of it”. . .
“I Am Right Here In Front of You”: An Interview with Robert Martinez
by Connie Wieneke
Artist Robert Martinez discusses challenging his audience’s assumptions and creating art that captures the living, breathing presence of its subjects…