SPRING/SUMMER 2022 ISSUE

Cover Artist
MELANIE SCHOENIGER

Melanie Schoeniger is a visual artist living south of Munich, Germany. She studied media design and had a career as an art director for a number of years. Traveling the world she fell even deeper in love with the beauty of nature fascinated by the abundance of rainforests and coral reefs. With her art she intends to shine a light on the wonder of life. Her cover image is part of her multi-award winning octopus garden artivism series, transforming her grief about the loss of coral reefs into agency, imagining a life sustaining future where plants contribute to a new form of underwater life.

Check out her work at www.ma-vida.com or on Instagram @_ma_vida.

Featured Artist
SUSAN G. SANCOMB

Susan G. Sancomb has lived near the ocean in southern Rhode Island for most of her life. Her interest in art and photography started at a very early age, and quickly developed into a passion during college at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Photography became her primary medium for more closely looking at the world and capturing the people, places, and objects that drew her. It is nature, and more specifically water, that is her consistent inspiration. Sancomb can frequently be found photographing the sandy shorelines, rocky coasts, tidal pools, and various rivers in her corner of New England.

Featured Poet
BYRON WILSON

Byron Wilson grew up in a tiny town on the northern California coast where he enjoyed unfettered access to some of the most pristine and awe-inspiring landscapes on Earth. He graduated with an English literature degree from Chico State and he currently lives in Oregon, where he works as a marketing copywriter for a toy company. Nature often serves as the impetus for introspection in his work, exposing the many nuanced tensions inherent in the idea of self. He is working to complete his first collection.

Follow him on Twitter @olddelusion.