It is my hope that the fake Lungs for Readers program (and this site, obviously) helps to facilitate audience connection in a way that is both increasingly necessary, and always a fucking blast for all parties involved.
Much of what disturbs about these images is the very real, very tactile presentation.
To celebrate today’s release of my chapbook Charactered Pieces: stories from OW Press, I am going to get a bit ego-y and discuss my own work. Artjerk was set up to do just that, let us jerks discuss our own pieces (as well as the pieces of others, sure), but ...
the simple composition allows the contrast of natural sky against the dilapidated building to state itself without forcing a message upon the viewer
Each cover consists of a photograph of a specimen box, the kind used by collectors like Nabokov to display insects.
Quite a skill, to create such a visceral image, but still have it overpowered by something as simple as color