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An interview with the curator of Let’s go home – Charlotte Friling – by Maya Kolarova

Photo: Personal archive
How was the idea of such a show born?
I was approached by the artist, Sophie Holstein, and the first owners of the S-KAI building, DWI Grundbesitz GmbH, who wished to give young artists the chance to exhibit [...]

By Changming Yuan

Photo: Richard0
if the little mouse became
as boundless as the sky as it wishes
the sky would become
as free as a cloud
the cloud
as powerful as a wind
and if the wind became
as unshakable as a wall
the wall would become
as penetrating as a mouse
and the little mouse
a mouse

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the sculptor Mariska Zevenbergen

When and how did you realize that art was going to be your vocation?
There are two clear moments in my youth that I realized art is my vocation: at the age of four; an artist came into our class to make large paintings with us my heart became [...]

Photo: lrargerich
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“We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”
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Photo: Taras Kalapun
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“We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.”
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Barry George

Photo: victoriapeckham
In the poems throughout Seed Across Snow, Kathleen Driskell’s careful attention to details creates the feeling of a heightened attentiveness to life. Nowhere is this more evident than in two of her poems about motherhood, “Why I Mother You the Way I Do” and “Seed.” In these two compelling poems, Driskell [...]

Photo: Darwin Bell
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Merry Christmas!

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An interview with Desislava Slavova by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Foto: Dessislava Slavova
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
I like the moments when a person materializes a reality out of their dreams. I admire people who can put love, time, patience and faith into their dreams and thus create an alternate world. [...]

R.L.Burns

Photo: nattu
There are many things I wish I didn’t remember at all. Being raped at sixteen. A stepfather who beat the hell out of my mother, my sister and me. The hatred I felt towards him. Taking a gun to kill him and nearly killing myself instead. Rejection. The disappointment of every romantic relationship I have ever had. I went from a drunken, [...]

Yana Radilova’s interview with the photographer Art McLeod

My name is Art McLeod. I have been a nature photographer for many years. I grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada. My parents are wildlife photographers and have been ever since I was a child. We spent a lot of time in the wilderness and that had a [...]

Peter Kraevski

Photo: Robert Couse-Baker
The torn-up wallpaper
of propriety
the savaged slippers
of domesticity
the loneliness
with its unreeled balls of yarn
this is
the dog of my affection
and the cat of yours

We are happy to share that Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s new poetry collection, “The Most” (Finishing Line Press) is available for pre-publication purchase at www.finishinglinepress.com. Availability date is March 5th.

Corinna Ketterling

Photo: David Blackwell.
The dachshund, which she left with me
drags me behind him through the snow
we greet a snowmen and we see
all winter’s white enchanting show

Mariana Velichkova

Photo: krystynana
I collected
the remnants of my pride
piece by piece
I cleared up
the shelves of my mind
thought by thought
I put away
the matters of the heart
that don’t matter anymore
in a cold, dry, secret
place to store
along with useless souvenirs
of fragile memories
worn-out masks of
laughing, crying,
deceptive closeness,
romantic explanations
second hand

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Francisco Valera

Why did you choose photography as your hobby?
Well, first because it is a cheap hobby due to Internet and digital techniques, and second because I can translate my ideas in the different ways of photo composition.

Space collector

No choice – save our world

Photo: wili
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“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.”
Albert Einstein
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Photo: trabita
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
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By Changming Yuan

Photo: Muffet
Arhats
squatting around in a fast fading field
all flushed with protests
against frost coming simply too soon
Buddha means you
to guard an entire season
but we mean you
to guard our houses
the last of an orange-streaked landscape
the last to ripen

Keith Wilson

Photo: Ghetu Daniel
My metallic grey,
this cold static hush across
the frightened traffic of my forest.
My unfamiliar family, my food,
my quarry.
I prey alone,
head cocked to the side,
an ear to the needles of the ground,
and the other trained to heaven.
I am the truest of predators.
The taste of blood, sanctifying.
My heart never lies.

Molly Weinberg (this poem was written while she was in camp during World War II)

Photo: Robbie W T
Vitamins A, B, C
Smooth life’s way for you and me,
But if you’re really going far
What you need is Vitamin R.
Want some vegetables on the sly?
Want the occasional refreshing milk?
Want o bubble in the bath?
Or toddle off to [...]

Chantal Bizzini

Photo: The Pug Father
Water battled light
yet they played
and the broken shells didn’t wound their feet
the wall fell,
wall of water on this bleached city, fortified
with reefs and flats
on the stink of algae
mixed with torn boards, tires,
corkscrews, gloves of discolored rubber,
plastic debris, heaps of rope or of thread
on the strip, the sponge, the brown sponge
encrusted with [...]

An interview with painter Jill Mulleady by Maya Kolarova
Jill Mulleady – “a whirlpool of complex emotions”

Photo: Personal archive

Jill Mulleady (born 1980 in Uruguay) is a painter based in London. She studied theatre at Jacques Lecoq School (2002-03), Paris and MA Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London (2007–09).
Jill Mulleady’s paintings combine figuration and [...]