Category: Piece
Qingming
after Tyehimba Jess Roy Zhu the season clear and bright i stir to the scent of this air … Read More Qingming
Something in the Water
Emily Gordon Emily Gordon is a junior studying Mechanical Engineering and Design. She enjoys bridging the gap between technical realism and creative freedom.
A Kumquat
Téa Baum The door to the house is shut. There are three separate locks: the first a rusting mahogany bolt, the second a corkscrew textured black, the third a thick bronze chain latched securely on the wall. She installed the second and third locks one month ago. Not by herself. It was a ruggedly handsome… Read More A Kumquat
Adam and Eve
Maelea Tan Maelea Tan is a junior theatre major at Northwestern University, minoring in art theory and practice as well as entrepreneurship. They are also part of the leadership certificate program and are planning to add a curious life certificate in the Fall of 2023. MAE∙LEA /meɪ ˈli ʌ/ (noun) A performance and visual artist.
Reeling in the Anthropocene
Levy Deckard With calloused hands, two fisherman slouch clandestinely spinning threaded glass from murky shallows of storm drain deluge to pseudo-solid sands of cracked concrete. Their divine watery domain sits beside the confines of the Richmond Road McDonald’s bordered by a thronged megachurch christ has overlooked. Alack! The hulking concrete, corporate chapel clouds the smoggy… Read More Reeling in the Anthropocene
Self Depiction
Hannah Boruchov Hannah Boruchov is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and textile arts. She is a senior graduating in June with a major in Mechanical Engineering, minor in art theory and practice, and certificate in design. Outside of school she is working on expanding her art practice and combining it with… Read More Self Depiction
You Tend to your Garden, and I’ll Tend to Mine
Anoushka Dasgupta Anoushka Dasgupta is a freshman majoring in Communications Studies. She loves art of all kinds, be it visual art, music, writing, acting—whatever makes us feel something.
Vision Board
Asiyah Arastu A little girl lives at 829 Foster Street. She leans out of her perpetually open window, about to release another purple heart into the cascade of hearts that flutter down the brick wall like flightless butterflies. Artist Ryan Tova Katz wanted her art “to make as many people happy as it can,” so… Read More Vision Board
Night Creatures
Ginny Lee We couldn’t fathom how anyone could love us With our sharp tongues And our sour little hearts, coated in bitter butter So frozen in fear that they reached out in all directions And recoiled at the last second Springing back into our rib cages with such force That our chests heaved and wheezed… Read More Night Creatures
THE SPIDER, IN SIX PARTS
Riley Harrison i. The Funeral I own a watch, and I’ve worn it almost every day for the past year. A little while ago, I noticed it stopped working. The tiny hands were stuck at 11:47 P.M. on October 29th, 2022. When I registered the stillness, hours later, I cried. (You can laugh if you… Read More THE SPIDER, IN SIX PARTS
