From Vol. V #4 Runny Yolks By David Arthur Kay “The early bird catches the mother-fucking worm,” the pea coat–covered Ed Lover look-alike says stoically as if to no one, as if to everyone in the Brownsville bodega around the corner from the walk-up apartment from which you departed with just one mission—to get your girl…
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Don Bergland: From Paint to Digital
“Anything that could be imagined could be created.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Don Bergland is currently an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of Victoria and has been an active exhibiting artist for over fifty years. During that time, he has worked through a variety of professional media, from oil on canvas…
Video: Journals
“There’s nothing but chemicals between me and you” By Nate Massari “Journals” is a part of Bare Melancholy—a series of drawings, paintings, and objects which feature skeletons in nonsensical situations, making subtle jabs at existentialist ideas, to illustrate some of the more banal facets of mental health. Simplicity and an unrefined aesthetic are its essential…
A Creator's Credo
A student artist’s insights about making art apply to prose. By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few. . . . This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point.” …
Art Spotlight: Mara Elizabeth
X-Ray See Mara Elizabeth’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 double exposure photograph As an artistic medium photography suffers from the common misconception that it is fundamentally a documentary tool; that photography is more or less a creative twist on a technology produced in order to record an objective reality. My goal as a photographer…
Literary Spotlight: Brandon Marlon
From WTP Vol. V #4 Tropics By Brandon Marlon Ships furrow the waters out at sea while civilization’s refugees anneal on the beach, their pestering cares a world away. By the quay a lone stevedore ignores heat and thirst, dragging hawsers along the towpath to moor crafts gently yet securely, his funicular expertise accrued over…
Anthologies Live
An Editor on the Work and Power of a Themed Collection By Erin Wood See her work in WTP Vol. V #1 In 2011, I had an idea for a book about scars. I had no idea that it would eventually take the form of an anthology, nor that in many ways, the experience would…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
May 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Arts Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Asheville Art May is special for me as it’s my birthday month. Traditionally we take the time to travel to places not as tourists but as curious…
Site Review: Tatiana L. Sougakova
“I do not paint images. I paint energy.” By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Tatiana L. Sougakova is a Russian-born American abstract artist, living and working in New Jersey, United States. Her website bio details her artistic journey beginning with her graduation from the Restoration Arts College, St. Petersburg,…
Holly Wong: Without Fear of Failure
“I start a new piece by looking at materials and holding them in my hands.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Holly Wong is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in New…
Art Spotlight: Irene Pouliassi
The Mount See Irene Pouliassi’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 in situ installation in Florinas’ old army barracks canvas, molded teeth, plaster, acrylic 157″ x 157″ x 118″ Osteotopia sets human existence as a point in a infinite time-frame, there is underlined irony and controversy. In one hand you have a Molded replica of…
Literary Spotlight: Susan Tepper
From WTP Vol. V #4 Meditations on Dear Petrov By Susan Tepper Set in nineteenth-century Russia during a time of war The North My tiredness is extreme. Lord of the mercy. I kneel before an altar of water and salt. Such cold rooms. Making the sign of the cross. A broken chair. One by one…