fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageEcstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton
Cover Statement Sara Shields
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
Fall 2017 Issue Cover Art
by Sara Shields
Sara Shields is an emerging Toronto based artist who specializes in pastel drawings on paper. She graduated from Centennial College’s Fine Arts Studio program in 2010, where she first began developing her distinctive take on figure drawing. Since graduating, Shields has exhibited in various solo shows, group shows, and art fairs. Her drawings have been acquired by Centennial College’s private library and head office collections, as well as purchased by collectors around the world.
Shields’ art is driven by human interaction and its influence on people’s feelings, with equal interest in their styles of communication, e.g. everyday small talk, elaborate storytelling, or manipulating the truth, as their lack of interaction. Focused on the human figure, her drawings are constantly evolving as storytelling and human life continue to evolve. Lines, patterns, and organic shapes coalesce into human-alien hybrids. Searching for an alternate human universe within the subconscious, Shields strives to depict imaginative tableaux of aliens/human beings void of gender and race. The tableaux combine the dark and obscure with lightness and hope. The aliens/human beings, distorted and bursting, with movement embody the unknown and the familiar to be inclusive and engaging.
Viewers are invited to create their own stories, dwell on memories, and interact with the movement found within each work.
