Kington is currently living and working in San Francisco, California. He appreciates the spontaneity and spiritual elements associated with drawing and painting. He states, ” I want my art to be more than merely aesthetic. So I believe this takes thinking and looking for a direction, setting goals and making plans, but still allowing room for the accident.”
E-mail gkington56@gmail.com for more information.
The Locksmith
There is a box
where none of this exists.
But don’t just turn around,
you wouldn’t resist That sound will seem
Left unfinished, undrawn, undug, undream,
Nothing Upside down looking
For the ground
Well it’s unbound; unseen
Listen, if you are still alive; before the night arrives
it’s time you knew; once it comes
it will leave you,
With me unlocked.
Pulling a plastic key out of your pocket-
It’s not to this.
Harmony Riedman is a student at UC Berkeley in California, and would appreciate feedback on her poetry at harmonyriedman@hotmail.com.
“My love of the photograph began at a very young age, when I made my first album from loose family photos. At that moment I became a passionate collector and interpreter of ephemera. I collect what was once personal. I activate stories through my creative process of dissection/alteration/reconfiguration.”
To see more of the artist’s work, visit her website at http://www.adelecrawford.com/index.php
OR contact the artist by email at adelecrawford@comcast.net
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Happy New Year! As we transition into a new year, we invite the opportunity to rethink and redefine our expectations about art. We hope you enjoy the first issue of 2011, Invention and Reinvention, which features a potpourri of captivating contributions, from paintings and graffiti to sculpture and short stories. Contributors in this issue either created their work from new ideas, or showed us how previous concepts and stylistic approaches can evolve and have new relevance in our current time and space.
This issue also features several reviews. Christopher Williams covers Eloisa James’ new novel, When Beauty Tamed the Beast, and Determinism, a new indie feature film by Sanjit and Ranju Majumdar. Tapati McDaniels gives us her thoughts on Songs For A Teenage Nomad by Kim Culbertson. Robbie Fraser reviews Festizio’s new album Hot City. Bruce Roberts shares his experience watching West Side Story at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco, California.
To wrap up the holiday season, Patsy Ledbetter shares a personal and humbling story, and Cynthia Lamanna explores a “picture perfect” Christmas. Other writing includes poetry by Simon J. Charlton that is both energetic and alluring, and a fiction story by Synch Chaos’ Associate Editor, J’Rie Blackwell-Elliott.
The work of Joshua Braff, David Pace, and Max Ehrman is lively and colorful. Equally stimulating are the photos by Julie V. Garner, which are developed using textile techniques.
Paintings by Marcos Shih and Katrina Majkut are engaging and slightly mysterious.
Simplicity is best in Malin Gabriella Nordin’s artwork and Brendah C. DeBow’s tribalesque ceramic pieces.
Michael Campbell’s art is curious and provocative.
The work of Liz Koerner and Monty Monty is patiently crafted and shows us a new twist on ordinary objects.
Enjoy! All of us at Synchronized Chaos wish you an artfully prosperous New Year!
Gloria Balderas
Creative Facilitator/Editor-In-Chief
I write the days
Days of strange habit and alien design
Here there is a dislocation of reason and all its attendant securities
Here fractured reflections out of broken mirrors
I tunnel obsessively the failing interior
Cast adrift within uncertain stories
Carried by the music of songs as yet unsung
I tunnel obsessively the failing interior
Seeking connections within a heap of broken images
Gleaning small truths to unknown purpose
By the Mascara Snake’s arcane inclination I have become this other self
This self of dreams
This self of fears
This self that only the secret mirror knows
In writing I struggle against the means at my disposable
To pin the flaming butterfly of language to the velvet cushion of comprehension
To plot a narrative course through a wilderness of deceptions
Of diversions and dead ends
And yet I write
I write of the moon sitting huge midst a bed of stars on his tongue
I write of the suns blazing their brilliance to blindness in his eyes
I write of the fires kindled to roar within the immensity of his belly
I write of his league spanning boots and tip the wink hat
I write of his horizon swallowing smile and his blue guitar
I write
Yet the essence eludes me
Simon J. Charlton may be reached for questions or comments at simonjohncharlton@gmail.com. Check out his newly-released album,
The Truth of All Love, with the musician Ben Rusch!
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“My work entails visualizing urban scenes that impart a cinematic experience. An avid follower of current and past film directors, I often dream of compositions that evoke an alternate reality. I try to capture an emotional disparity and solitude that is often felt in an urban environment. Working in oils allows me to layer and build realism and richness to each painting. Using a traditional and contemporary approach, my technique involves wet on wet applications.”
– Marcos Shih
Shih lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Contact: marcos@marcosshih.com