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Who made it? Issue #27

Who made it?

May 2023

With “Open Casket, 2020” by Kelly Vance

“First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes.
closeup of dandelion stem with a few attached seeds, and a string of seeds blowing away out of focus
“Untitled” by Saad Chaudhry

With “Mostly Sorry” by Susan Wadds

“Baby Can I Hold You” by Tracy Chapman.
small colorful stones on the bank of rippling water topped with a glimmer of sunlight
“Untitled” by Dey Kheireddine.

With “Transmute” by Laurie Easter

“Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper.

Acknowledgments

Background image of parking lot by Tim Meyer via Unsplash.

Image of apartment door by Rodrigo Santos via Pexels.

Image of Ipomoea alba (Moonflower) budding by Don McCulley.

Background image of shoreline by Nathan Tran via Pexels.

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Who made it? Issue #26

Who made it?

April 2023 | Issue #26

With “Omnia Vanitas” by Donna Obeid

“Dance on The Moon” by Aurora.
1800s oil painting of fair-skinned woman with long straight brown hair leaning on her elbow, her other hand resting on a human skull, looking dreamy and contemplative into the distance
Omnia Vanitas, 1848, by William Dyce.
Untitled by MariaD.

With “Remembering Adella” by Anna Citrino

abstract field with rough brush strokes for grass, valleys and hillsides in white, gray, and blue
Embracing the Silence by Wanda Loomis.
early version of Picasso's Woman Ironing; woman with dark brown hair, olive skin, bent over using a flat iron; colors are all tinted with hues of blue
La Repasseuse, 1901, by Pablo Picasso.

With “The Shawl” by Elizabeth Bedell

Chopin Etude in E major Op. 10 no. 3 “Tristesse” by Henrik Kilhamn.
curly blond-headed child in red coat and hat bending over a wall covered in vines with a key to unlock a secret door; book cover of The Secret Garden
Cover: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Maria Louise Kirk.
painting of women wearing Kashmiri shawls; colors of the background are earth tones and abstract; women are wearing cream-colored shawls with the same earth tones as the background
Cashmere, 1908, by John Singer Sargent.

Acknowledgments

Field background by BETRuleR via Alpha Coders.

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Who made it? Issue #25

Who made it?

March 2023 | Issue #25

With “Old Men Love Me” by Caroline Simpson

engraving/etching of two Passenger pigeons, one--with brown and light teal feathers--on a top branch bending down to feed the other--with blue wings and head, a rust red belly and throat--on a lower branch
Passenger Pigeon, 1838, print: etching and/or engraving, 41.25 x 29.12 mm, by John James Audubon.
oil painting with large brush strokes of stone bench between two brown tree trunks, in front of a stone fountain with shades of brown grass
The Stone Bench in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, 1889, oil on canvas, 51 x 24 cm, by Vincent Van Gogh.

With “How Simple Steps Become a Dance” by Sara Ries Dziekonski

“It Only Takes a Taste” by Sara Bareilles and Jason Mraz.
50s diner with green chairs, blue tables, red barstools, and miscellaneous brick-brack on the walls and shelves
Diner Nostalgia Retro by Michelle Maria.

With “Ars Antoinettica” by Elizabeth Sylvia

Prince & The Pauper clip via Andreas Deja.
Marie Antoinette, a white upper-crust English woman with blue eyes and pink rosy cheeks, wearing a white Muslin dress with ruffles around the collar, a large gold bow tied at the waist, a large sunhat with a gray plume and bow, holding a pink rose
Marie Antoinette in a Muslin dress, 1783, oil on canvas, by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.
digital art of a silhouette of a person standing and looking up with a background of red, orange, green, blue blending together with what looks like start and a milky way
Untitled by Greg Rakozy.

Acknowledgments

Background photo of elder men via Italy Magazine.

Background photo of red hearts on black background by RODNAE via Pexels.

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Who made it? Issue #24

Who made it?

February 2023 | Issue #24

With “Translator’s Note” by Kadini Padilla

Shadow Figures of a Lantern and a Hawk, ca. 1842
Shadow Figures of a Lantern and a Hawk, 1842, by Utagawa Hiroshige.

With “Understories” by Richard Jackson

“The Night is so Moonlit” by Vera Lytovchenko.
Spotted doe standing on grassy meadow looking over her shoulder at the camera
“Spotted doe standing on grassy meadow” by David Selbert.
A star cluster within a nebula. The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink gas that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end points toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink gas expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are more of these white stars and galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image.
“Star Formation in Cluster’s Dusty Ribbons” by NASA’s James Webb Telescope.

With “Sight-Paths” by Hoyt Rogers

Murmurations by Xavi Bou.
drawing of two black birds by a record player outside on the grass by a pond and a small tree
Listening for Birds by Fiona Watson.

Acknowledgments

Infographic of left and right brain found at Get Blend.

Image of Shakespeare engraved quote found at Sandpoint Wellness Council.