Elijah Lamb is a young artist from Milwaukee based in Los Angeles.
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by Paula Lanzador, Makeup Artist at Nobasura Agency
“Before all of this I was working as a makeup artist. I needed a creative outlet to substitute creative shoots and working on my own face wasn't going to cut it. I asked a couple of my friends to send me their selfies so I can doodle on their faces. Now it's evolved each week and I learn something new. It's been a fun & therapeutic way to express myself.”
Reflections on Art
Now that all the museums have been closed
and we’ve been regaled with virtual tours
without leaving the confines of our homes,
I’m left here to reflect upon the light
I used to try and capture on the glass.
But before I go there with all these words,
I might honor the genesis, the birth,
the unveiling of gifts before framing:
before the mysterious Madonna
was labelled and hung to the chandelier;
before the Tahitian native was placed
to face the hall of bright, curtained windows;
before the Roman donned with laurel leaves
was left at an angle to Persian blinds;
first with their maker they’d patiently dealt
with the improbability to be,
simply to be. And through trial and error,
these paintings trickled down through history
and filled the halls and gallery walls
framed and protected by indifferent glass.
The virtual tours afford us with close-ups,
high resolution details, even cracks
we may be surprised don’t hinder beauty,
and the crowds! for once, just you and the art!
But my secret language will leave with me
as future gas-masked individuals
return one day to briefly gaze upon
the virgin, native, and man behind
their important selfie testimony.
It’s beyond a Da Vinci or Gaugin,
the anonymous labor of one’s love
the dialogue I tried to listen to,
one not even the painters considered
in their endeavor to embellish life,
a conversation more about physics
than such beauty, our death, morality;
it’s the glass that reflects real time and space
of a mere I am here and you are there,
of blurry yet recognizable art
and a sharp, bright, impossible exit.
His poetry has appeared in literary journals such as DIAGRAM, Blue Earth Review, Barcelona INK, Parentheses #1,
Subliminal Interiors, Northwind Magazine, The Tishman Review, Assaracus, Nimrod International Journal…
His four published collections of poetry are available on Amazon.
by Ella Bowler an English and Philosophy student based in Dublin,
whose work is featured extensively on EMPWR.ie.
