Alternative Gardens: 7 WOC Talk Wellness, Ritual, and Artist Identity

August 14, 2017

...in the flowers of their intersectional feminism

Poetry By E. Sparks

September 8, 2016

E. Sparks is a poet and fiction writer from Austin, TX. She studied English Literature at UT, taught English in Barcelona for a spell, as well as Brooklyn. Her poems have been published in The Austin Chronicle, and Luna Luna. Other works can be found on her blog.

Art by Meredith K Ultra

August 26, 2016

I go by Meredith K Ultra or Ink and Daggers. That's Ink and Daggers, not Ink and Free Cinnamon Rolls. I think of my art as high tech digital finger painting collage cartoons. My work relies heavily on reference material and are drawn on my iPad (mostly in the Procreate app) with my finger. I stopped using a stylus because my toddler liked to chew on them, and I prefer having to rely on as little equipment as possible to make my art.

Interview With Perry Baron Huntoon About Her 'How I Feel Today' Art Project

April 1, 2016

After that performance, I was exhausted. Having been accustomed to keeping my emotions to a minimum, this act of defiance took a lot of out of me. For the next few years, I kept trying to return to the metaphor of landscape with varying results. I became reluctant to confront the pain that was bubbling beneath the surface. This reluctance showed in my work.

When I moved to New York in 2013, the intensity of the city forced my hand: I had to deal with my immediate anxieties and continue to sort through my trauma and grief. I developed an isolated, meditative practice, in which I laid out huge pieces of canvas on my bedroom floor and marked them to oblivion with charcoal and pastels. The calm that I achieved from such physical, repetitive work was absolutely necessary to my survival in the city.