Issue 23
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Featured Artist
Natalie BradfordI am from Detroit, Michigan and recently graduated from the University of Western Michigan Frostic School of Art with a Bachelor's degree in fine studio art with an emphasis in print media. While at school, I explored the medium of printmaking and other alternative forms of mark making such as drawing, painting, and collage. I have exhibited artwork locally in Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Ypsilanti, and Lansing, as well as internationally through PxP Contemporary Gallery. I currently live and work in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
My artwork is mostly surreal/imaginative and oftentimes deal with themes of absence, decay, humans, and nature. My work explores my concerns, anxieties, and curiosity about the future and what happens to our bodies and souls when we die. I’m also interested in the duality of animal life and human life as they exist together in the world. I create images and narratives of what I perceive to be both fleeting moments right before death and (possible) life after death depicted by the human figure, nature, and animals. |
Expose
We can only confront fear and violence when we expose their reality, a theme explored in "Bloom" by Elizabeth Kuelbs. Read Elizabeth's poem "Bloom" and her commentary here.
—Christine Taylor, EIC |