Art: Evening Road by Oksana Reznik
The Brian Head Fire
Deer and a few pronghorn
wander onto Main Street
and chew petunias
from the planter boxes. Hooves
scratch on the asphalt. A shadow
extends until the sun is a solid red coin
without a face. The pillar, lighter
than air, cools the morning shade,
melts the cliffs from orange
to vermillion. It rises, so large
that you could never look
all of it all at once.
The end of the world leers
over the ridgetop. Speckled wind
slithers east. The taste of burning hair
permeates when it crosses through the cattle
pastures up the canyon.
Woodsmoke, almost white,
turns black when buildings start
to burn. Ash doesn’t drift in like snow,
it falls like cartilage spat back
onto a dinnerplate. Hymns cough
from helicopters tilting out
to the reservoir and back, so small
against the flickering sky. A procession
of trucks drive through town and turn
off their sirens because no one
else is on the road.
About the author:
Turner Wilson is a poet born and raised in Utah and is a recent graduate from the MFA at Bowling Green State University. His work has previously appeared in Quatrain.Fish, the Manzano Mountain Review, and Reed Magazine.
In the artist’s words:
Oksana Reznik
Lviv, Ukraine
In my artworks, I explore human presence in the environment and the trail that remains, combining my own feelings, memories, and imagination with a certain place or situation.
Education: 2013 – PhD, Lviv National Academy of Arts
Exhibitions:
2020 – Publication in AbstractMagazineTV.com (online): 27 May, 2020 and 3 June, 2020
2020 – “What to Wear” – 16 April – 9 June, 2020, online exclusive on ARTSY.com; Curator, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2020 – Publication in the Flora Fiction Literary Magazine, Spring 2020: Volume 1, Issue 1
2018 – International Painting Triennial of Carpathian Region – Silver Quadrangle 2108.
2017 – Featured in Spring 2017: Vol. 1 Best Artworks printed catalog issued by Saatchi Online Art Gallery (USA)
2016 – Personal exhibition: “Land” – 29 March – 17 April 2016, ICONART Contemporary Sacred Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
2014 – “Credibility Theory” – Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
2011 – “Intersections” – 18 – 28 May, 2011, Gallery of Lights, DUCTAC, Dubai Arts Center, UAE. Curator, ARTISLA Gallery, Berlin, Germany)
2010 – “Painting 2010” 20 August -5 September, 2010, IV Ukranian Trienniale, Kyiv, Ukraine. Organizer, Ukrainian National Union of Artists.
http://oksanareznik.com/
https://www.saatchiart.com/OksanaR