Visual Art

Volume 24 (Spring 2020)

Cover Art: "Golden Queen" | Paige Felan
Image: A woman in a black dress stands with her face tilted upward to look at a point slightly above the viewer. Her voluminous hair is at the center of outward concentric swirls in the background.
"Isolation" | Paige Felan
IMAGE: A disembodied neck and head covered in visible veins and without eyes or hair looks in the direction of the viewer. A right triangle outlined in crayon and partially painted over in water color is in the background.
"Keeper of the Sky" | Paige Felan
IMAGE: A nude woman wearing a crown made of radiating light lounges in the night sky below the moon, resting as if she were in a chair. Clouds drape over her legs and arms like cloth ribbons; where they end at her left arm and legs, the ribbons transform into a cascade of multicolored light.
"Control" | Adora Keser
IMAGE: A tampon inserted into the open face of a halved orange, which rests in a bed of flowers.
"Feel" | Adora Keser
IMAGE: A table is covered in bananas, plums, oranges, and other indistinct produce, as well as birth control pills and condoms. A pair of hands reach up from behind the table, holding a halved plum and a sex toy covered in the plum's juices.
"Life" | Adora Keser
IMAGEL: Two hands extend from out of frame. One hand holds a halved fruit while the other inserts a tampon applicator into the fruit's open face. Underneath the hands, a table is strewn with bananas, kiwis and strawberries.
"Pleasure" | Adora Keser
IMAGE: A hand inserts a finger into the open face of a halved fruit that has been placed in front of a person's pelvis.
"Safe" | Adora Keser
Image: A table is decorated with flowers, a halved orange with an inserted tampon, a halved kiwi, a whole plum, a packet of birth control pills as well as three loose pills on the table surface, and a banana sheathed in a condom.
"Sweet" | Adora Keser
Image: A woman visible from nose to neck places a pill on her tongue. In the foreground, various fruit are strewn on a flat surface.
"Backwards Diagnosis" | Steph Johnson
IMAGE: An anthropomorphic cloth sack stands behind a rock and uses a magnifying glass to examine an anthropomorphic paper bag that is facing away as it sits on a tree stump. The paper bag appears sad.
"Distance Party" | Steph Johnson
IMAGE: Two anthropomorphic paper bags wearing face masks stand at opposite ends of the picture. The bag at left holds a lime and a roll of toilet paper that extends across the picture to drape across the head of the bag to the right. The bag to the right holds a bottle with a partially obscured label resembling the label of Corona-brand beer. At the bottom of the picture, text reads "Maybe not the time for a party but..."
"Hiding Hungry" | Steph Johnson
IMAGE: An anthropomorphic paper bag peeks out of a trash can. The bag holds a carrot in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other. A dandelion seedhead sprouts from the ground spraying seeds into the air. A letter sits on the ground, sealed with a valentine-shaped sticker.
"It Doesn't Fit" | Steph Johnson
IMAGE: An anthropomorphic paper bag sits on a dryer with an "Out of Order" sign taped over the front. Next to the dryer is a clothesline holding four empty paper bags that appear far too small to fit on the anthropomorphic creature.
"Lost and Found" | Steph Johnson
IMAGE: An anthropomorphic paper bag stands on a street corner. It stands in front of a directional sign with opposite arrows labeled "My voices" and "Your voices." The bag itself holds a sign that reads "Need help; looking for Heaven," and a cup sits at its feet. Two dandelion seedheads sprout from the sidewalk, and seeds float on the wind.
"We Need Help" | Steph Johnson
IMAGE: An anthropomorphic paper bag stands at the center of the picture facing away from the viewer, looking across a river. On the opposite side of the river, factory smokestacks at the edge of a city spew gases into the air. On the bag's side of the river there are four trees and five tree stumps. Two dandelion seedheads sprout from the ground, and seeds drift on the wind.