Artist Notes
Issue Three
Spring 2023
Monse Carranza Bernal (b. 2001): Life Orbs (2022) is a watercolor painting collaged with paper. This painting is to represent the distraction of things when you are supposed to be doing something important, for example cleaning your room. It may also depict the creation of life in small marbles. Left Over Paint (2020) is an acrylic painting. This painting was created with leftover paint that I didn't want to go to waste from other artworks. It symbolizes leftover things people leave behind, but someone might come along and create something beautiful to cherish.
Megan Hildebrandt (b. 1984): Fever (2022) is an ink drawing depicting the feeling of holding my four-year-old son when he was sick during the pandemic.
Jenna Janssen (b. 2003): Comfort (2022) is a multimedia drawing depicting the way one comforts themselves through the effort of secluding the outside world, watching on.
Artur Melika (b. 1999): Happy Birthday Jo (2022) is a three-plate lithography drawing, done using a grease pencil and tusche. The image depicts a candid shot of Jo, a transmasculine person, as they celebrate their twenty-third birthday in a very slay outfit. Safe Space (2022) is a digital drawing that was printed using the photolithography process. The image depicts Elle, a young trans woman, in a place she feels most comfortable—her bathroom.
Fatima Parra (b. 2000): As a Mexican-American/Chicano artist, I created a symbol that not only is important to me, but I believe can be familiar to the Latino community. The anatomical heart in El Corazon que Sangro (2023) represents a significant organ needed to survive. The arrows and blades stabbing the heart are meant to show the pain and impact it has received.
Irelynd Pearson (b. 2002): Colorized (2021) is a colored-pencil portrait that aims to depict the idea of colorizing an old photo, but rather than turning a black-and-white photo to color, seeing what an already colorized photo would look like with increased saturation and how this color change would affect the viewer's traditional view of color and how it shifts on the skin.
Cristina Saldaña (b. 2001): Look into my Eyes (2022) is a charcoal drawing portraying the vulnerability of expressing oneself, as anguish and sorrow can be felt by looking into someone's eyes.
Alyssa Schmitt (b. 2000): Mad in Purple (2022) is a study done of a close friend of the artist’s in a palette that is intuitively influenced by the perception of Mad's personality.
Enoch Ulmer (b. 1977): One Percent (2022) is a linocut relief print examining the faultiness of personal protective equipment (PPE) at protecting healthcare workers from exposure to illness.