• Art and Photography,  Translation

    Dream Time: The Art of Christian Veschambre

    all paintings are oil on canvas

     

    Seeing a painting by Christian Veschambre for the first time can feel like you’ve been drawn into the vortex of an alternate universe. Figures emerge from a sandstorm unaware someone – us – is watching. They appear in profile or in movement, as if the force of the wind is sculpting them mid-action, sweeping away layers of stone and sand. We get the sense they’re not meant to be seen. When staring out from the canvas – as do some – they are as if startled, ready to frighten,

  • Poetry

    Three Poems by Peter Spagnuolo

    Above: “The Repast of the Lion” by Henri Rousseau

    Cartographer

    The monkeys scold that I lost my way, I’ve gone
    mad on the march through you, a hand on the whip—
    your impenetrable wild I leave undone,
    and tame your jungle waste—but wrecked my ship,
    so I must spread you open, with no way back.
    My rivals tell I’ve grown too old to play
    the boy explorer, yet at that perfumed crack
    where wells a secret font of youth, I lay
    with my discovery,