WINTER CONTINUES
About the author:
This poem is from an unpublished manuscript entitled For Heat that explores a mother’s postpartum suicide from a daughter’s perspective, years after the event. Themes of survival, recovery, witnessing, memory/forgetting and presence/absence are encountered in elegiac and lyrical form. Christina Foisy is currently working on the manuscript 'For Heat', funded by the Toronto Arts Council. Foisy's work has been published in Open Minds Quarterly, Canadian Women’s Studies, POESIS, Lickety Split amongst other literary and academic journals. She is currently running a writing workshop for women-identified writers entitled: Process, a poet’s incubator. This workshop actively seeks to encourage innovative processes for the creation of poetry and to build community amongst women writers in Toronto.
Art: Midnight Reminiscence by Britnie Walston
In the artist's words:
Britnie is a Maryland based versatile artist and photographer, capturing energy through light, vibrant color, depth, and texture. The use of exaggerated brushstrokes and abstract color give her paintings life and voice. Her landscapes and abstract work consist of a variety of unconventional techniques to capture the elements portrayed. One of the most used techniques in her abstract paintings, is the method of mixing each individual color using acrylic paint, floetrol, silicone, and water. Together, they create “cell like” forms. Britnie also achieves different designs and textures using household objects such as strainers, straws, and frosting spatulas. She aims to depict the emotions of liberation (“set free”) and freedom (“being free”). As a child who grew up around the Chesapeake Bay, her work as a whole, is inspired by nature and portrays the absence of human presence, bringing out the personality of nature itself, while providing the viewer the opportunity to escape and appreciate all the beauty that surrounds us. More of her work can be found at www.BNWArt.com. Portfolio link: www.BNWArt.com/portfolio