Casey Mottola – Sun Above and Earth Below
How can you take home with you? To me, home looks like a countertop cluttered with an Instant Pot, stand mixer, and rice cooker. It tastes like puttanesca and freshly baked cookies. It sounds like my best friend’s laughter as I fail to separate egg whites. My earliest memories are in the kitchen: learning fractions […]
Zoe Vernier – The Dream Book: Introduction
Have your dreams ever truly made sense? Do you believe that even the strangest and most obscure ones hold meaning, with metaphors waiting to be uncovered in our waking world? The Dream Book is a visual journey through my personal dreams and nightmares. Each image brings to life the surreal landscapes of my subconscious, exploring […]
Casey Mottola – Intro to Sun Above and Earth Below
Earth that gave to us this food Sun that made it ripe and good Sun above And earth below Our love and thanks to you we show Blessings on our meal Amen How can you take home with you? To me, the home looks like a countertop cluttered with an Instapot, stand mixer, and rice […]
DIY OR DIE: MINI ZINES (VOL. 1)
If you’ve ever folded a piece of paper into a little booklet and scribbled your strangest thoughts, you’ve already made a zine. Zines are weird, personal, and wildly democratic. Anyone can make one. There are no gatekeepers, no curators, no algorithms in this medium—just unfiltered voices breaking through the noise to document their realities in real-time. And […]
Max Sugarman – Teething
A sinkhole the size of six football fields opens up outside the front door of average teen girl. Never mind, it’s not a sinkhole, it’s the yawning mouth of a creature living beneath the Earth that has been sleeping for millennia as layers of time have built up around it! The guy is not malicious […]
Lena Toner – Grotesque
When most people think of monsters, they think of something horrible and grotesque lurking in the dark. I think, however, that there is something inherently human about the concept of a monster: viewing the world through different eyes, from the edges, through a mind not quite one’s own. I wanted to express this in my […]
Max Sugarman – Audio Visualizer 3000
“I took my shirt off in the yard”No one saw that the skin on my shoulders was golden Two digital paintings based on songs that make me picture something when I hear them. The first is based on “The Glow, Pt. 2” by The Microphones, a song from one of my favorite albums of all […]
Sylvia Nickolopoulos – I Wish I Was Your Friend
My portraits are all of real people who go to my high school. Each of them are in one of my classes, and for all different reasons, I wish I was friends with them all. I didn’t explain what the title of this project was to them(and I hope they don’t find out). I had […]
Abby Landman – Starts with Fire, Ends with Fire
One girl forged in flames, another in silk. Starts with Fire, Ends with Fire is the title of my comic which is in the concept stage. The story follows one girl from a foreign kingdom as she meets new people and is forced to deal with the stereotypical notions people have of her kind. While […]
Casey Mottola – Love’s Tempo
Love, especially love that endures into old age, is one of the most beautiful possibilities in the human condition. To cherish life with another is something to dance and cheer for, no matter the time.