On Not Seeing Bruegel (Epiphany)
Deborah Lewer considers the painting The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow (Epiphany).
Deborah Lewer considers the painting The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow (Epiphany).
The Other Journal features the abstract landscape paintings and writings of emerging artist George Davis.
In “Light Adaptation,” the poet Sarah Steinke offers images that evoke childhood fear and the darkness of memory while also leading into the freedom of revelation, of “everything visible” becoming “light.”
I. To the dogwood still in bloom, the dead rhododendron, the azalea that bleeds its desire out. In case. II. To the birds in jeweled leaves, drying their feathers, wet chirps, wet grass, wet ground. To the knot in my shoulder just at the point where my mother pinned my wings, traced with pencil, snipped […]
In “Water Mission,” Jillena Rose offers a narrative of a childhood in Saigon, where she learned the prayer of “women in white silk laughing, letting water run over their fingers . . . another sound for praise.”
D. S. Martin’s “Extrapolations” considers what lies beyond our immediate perceptions and wonders if unseen wonder lies beneath the surface of our landscapes.
In this interview, artist Barry Moser discusses racism, religion, and working amidst mystery.
This is a second poem by Elizabeth Hoover that uses the photography of Saul Leiter as a source for meditative dialogue on the nature of an image.
In this poem, Marjorie Maddox considers the potential for salvation in catastrophe when we open our eyes to change.