Welcome to our Spring/Summer 2023 Issue!
Featured (Re) Contributors:
TEXT: Fiction: The Shakespearean on the Porch by Michael Laurence. Book Review: H.E. Fisher for THE MORTALITY SHOT by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton. The Multi-Genre Science Corner: Poetry in Space. ART: Sarah J. Sloat. Nina Gaby. Koss. James Diaz. M.A. Scott. Twila Newey. FILM: THE BIRD STREETS written and directed by Matthew D. Wilder.
Welcome to (Re)!
I am very excited to present a curated “journal of ideas” that is a meeting place of visual art, prose, science, and more.
The idea for this endeavor came about from my love of vintage clothing and found objects and the way in which one ‘re’cycles these objects, et al. to make them their own. This concept then grew from that which we acquire in this vein, to that which we create through our various art forms (and yes, science and math are considered here, to be ‘the application of creative skill and imagination,’ as art is formally defined). All of the material presented incorporates a re-root word, such as relive, reinvent, reuse…into its framework in whatever way the artist chooses. And so, (Re) is a product of this expanded idea.
The journal, now available bi-annually online, features the work of artists/creators/thinkers in various categories and I am honored to present their work within this forum.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explore this ever- evolving (re)source.
I hope you enjoy the ride!
— Felice Neals
Writer, reader, photographer, dance devotee, film citizen, language-a-phile…
TEXT
Happy Spring! Welcome to our Spring-back-after-Fall/Winter-hibernation issue!
In our TEXT section, we are excited to present our featured fictional (re)miniscience by and about an actor on tour in the early days of his career; our first book (re)view (!) by Editor, H.E. Fisher, and the return of The Multi-Genre Science Corner.
FICTION
THE SHAKESPEAREAN ON THE PORCH
by Michael Laurence
BOOK (RE)VIEW
by H.E. Fisher
The Mortality Shot
by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
Liquid Cat Publishing House
Copyright 2022 by by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton, PhD
Cover Painting Copyright 2022 by by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton, PhD
ISBN: 9798354391936
BOOK (RE)VIEW
by Kristine Esser Slentz
If Some God Shakes Your House
by Jennifer Franklin
Four Way Books
Copyright © 2023 Jennifer Franklin
Cover art © Man Ray 2015 Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY /ADAGP, Paris 2022
ISBN 9781954245488 (paperback) | ISBN 9781954245495 (epub)
THE MULTI-GENRE SCIENCE CORNER
“Science is the poetry of reality.” — Carl Sagan
My dream come true!
Poetry will make its way into the “final frontier” with verse written by one of our favorite poets!
Congrats to U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on this collaborative mission with NASA.
Read all about it here:
ART
The ART section of this season’s issue, curated by Editor, H.E. Fisher, includes the (re)splendent work of six Text Artists: Sarah J. Sloat, Nina Gaby, Koss, James Diaz, M.A. Scott and Twila Newey, whose innovative creations embody the lure of the visual with the power of the written word.
Sarah J. Sloat
In Turning Over the Files
Art text:
internally
life
was
similar to
the
holy calm
of the old newspaper
now impossible to
publish
(The title and poem, “In Turning Over the Files,” is an erasure from source text: Roughead, William. Classic Crimes. NYRB Classics, 2000).
Nina Gaby
Chance
Art text:
the assumed impersonal
purposeless determiner of
unaccountable happenings:
LUCK as an outcome decided
by CHANCE
(Re)bound
1. bouncing back from
2. presenting in a new format (from binding)
From the micro-memoir/accordion book “The Mercy of Chance (a tiny memoir of medical uncertainty and luck).
Koss
Ready
Art text:
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
the truth
win
dows
ready to flee
the ridiculous
picture
James Diaz
It’s only pain, only just
Art text:
how quiet I imagine it
in the clearing You’re feeling
the last bit of it
golden and lit
make me open at my knees in the rain
It’s only pain
only just
M.A. Scott
Altar Card: After
Art text:
after
the darkness
now you are like morning
(image clippings, quartz crystal and burnt poem fragments by Amy Lowell)
Twila Newey
blue excavations
Art text:
February 24
What is blue?
War
:often capitalized
versus
:SKY
More on the artists…
FILM
A new season rings in a new addition to our journal of ideas – the short film. We are very pleased to present Matthew Wilder’s five-minute narrative short to kick-off this ongoing section of creativity in motion.
Wilder writes: THE BIRD STREETS was shot in the spring of 2020, in the full flush of that first lockdown, from which it was unclear whether any of us would emerge. It was conceived in the spirit of apocalyptic dread in which many of us lived at that time (and from which many, many have not and probably will never emerge).
The dramatic question was what would happen if a man eroticized his fear of the virus? The brilliant Kathleen Littlefield is the (mostly) disembodied voice, ripped off from one of Marguerite Duras’ drunken ghostscapes. The invaluable Joe Hulser is the man—what he’s up to, I’ll leave to you.
A marvelous young cinematographer, Zach Voytas, had the guts to shoot this tiny panic sonata with anamorphic lenses, blasting us with the past. The sublime Gerald Busby composed the score—which, he says, was the audition piece that got him the job of scoring Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN.
We shot in a Malibu-adjacent space that resembled the Spahn Ranch overwhelmed by kindergarten crayons. As a result of our cinematic adventure, this dreamland was closed to the public.
The link to the film can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=213&v=GucmS7oWJ4k&feature=emb_logo
More on Filmmaker, Matthew Wilder…
OTHER STUFF
Here is where I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the (Re) contributors, the friends and family who support this adventure with their encouragement and guidance, Lori and Jim, the web consultants who continue to hold my hand as I build this site with no previous web tech experience, and the wonderful readers, who I hope will continue to follow our recent move from quarterly to bi-annual content. Thank you! Merci! Gracias! Shukriya! Grazie! Obrigado! Xiexie! Amsegenallo! Asante! Shukraan!
COVER photograph by Felice Neals: Les chèvres seront bientôt là. The Goats Will Be Here Soon. Popenguine, Senegal. 2023.
TEXT: Fiction photo: Photographer Unknown
The Science Corner: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
ART: Photos taken by the artists
THANK YOU, as always, to our Editor H.E. Fisher, who curated the Text Art section of this issue, for her sharp eye and invaluable contribution. I could not have gotten this project off and running without her support and editorial expertise.
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SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES
Hello!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
For our Fall/Winter issue 2023, we are on the lookout for your creations on the following topic: The Teenage Years. Please send us your photos, short films, flash fiction and flash essays that capture looking back on that teenagey time of questions, angst, playfulness, confusion, dreams, whatever strikes your fancy, in any style. Abstract or realistic. In any setting.
For Photography and Film
We would love to see your original, previously unpublished photography and very short films (films can have been shown elsewhere) 3 minutes or less, that represent the teenage years.
Please send up to 5 stills or one moving image/scene.
Photos should look good in a max 640×640 pixel range. Very short films should be formatted in whatever way makes them web-site friendly, i.e., YouTube ratio, MP4, et al.
Flash Fiction please send your max 550 word stories. Flash Non-Fiction essays: max 750 words.
Text should be in Times Roman, 12 pt font, double-spaced.
You reserve all rights.
Please submit your fabulous work BY October 29th at 9pm to: reideasjournal@gmail.com
We look forward to receiving your wonderful submissions!
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