MARIE V. RECALDE

Forget It, Jake, It’s Chinatown

Marie V. Recalde is a writer, artist, translator, and Southern California native living abroad. Join her adventuring on Instagram at @imaginarymarie

MONIKA GALLAND

What Happens Next

Monika Galland is an artist based in Basel, Switzerland. She has been making collages, drawings, and watercolor paintings over 30 years.

KATHY BRUCE

Were They Painted and Veiled?

"Meaning to me is intrinsic, complex, multi-layered. I don’t expect everyone to interpret the meaning in the same way as I do and that is ok. I am happy for people to interpret what they bring to the images. I don’t have any conclusions to draw regarding my work…I would agree with Francis Bacon who once said, 'The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

Kathy Bruce is a visual artist based in Argyll & Bute Scotland whose collages explore archetypal female and mythological forms within the context of poetry, literature and the natural environment.

JAKE QUICK

Lake Retreat

“Lake Retreat combines 480 individually cut 2x2 blocks of wood into a mosaic, recreating an aerial view of our cove. By using larger mosaic pieces, it is much more abstract, which, in my mind, makes it more special that my family and I can identify the uniqueness of what we see out the window every day.

I cut the blocks with a miter saw, sanded five sides, and then burned them on a metal sheet with a handheld butane torch. After counting blocks for each color, I sprayed them with acrylic, keeping the grain visible. The bevels add visual depth and complexity by randomly arranging their direction. All the blocks are the same, except the one representing our house which was cut to match the roof profile. This project was a present for my wife's birthday.”

Jake is a surgeon from Missouri who operates mainly on humans and occasionally on art and home improvement projects.

J’ATELIER9

Flourish

Artisan Crafted Creator J'Atelier9/@jatelier9 translates worldwide interconnectedness by highlighting society’s sensationalism of media, global discourse, complex facets of duplicity. She dissects aspects of societal conditioning and programming within the matrix, creating wondrous reflection. IG: @jatelier9 Website: altamira.art/users/jatelier9