by JL Jacobs | Oct 13, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Olivier Fonteau, @olivierfonteau.art. ARROWHEADS You asked me, my poet friend, why my lines Are arrowheads. Well, I’m from the tropics Where the Tainos left their skulls filled With maggots at the entrances of mines. Their arrows were poems written in the...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 12, 2017 | Poetry
Art: Olivier Fonteau, @olivierfonteau.art SAND I’ve searched for my father’s face in the sand. You raised your left arm. A fine veil of golden Sand on your forearm. You smiled, and sang A song about stones & bones, or bony like stones. You moved. A cascade of sand...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 1, 2017 | Art, Interview
THE ART OF OLIVIER FONTEAU Olivier Fonteau is a French artist born in 1975 in the Caribbean island of Martinique. His passion for drawing and sculpture led him to move to the European city of Strasbourg to study architecture for two years. Then he settled in Granada,...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 22, 2017 | Short Fiction
Art: “Exodus, Untitled Transparency SN1” by Olivier Fonteau RAG-DOLLS All day long, we sit on the crumbling wall of the cemetery. Our feet, clad in mud-crusted Mary Janes, dangle inches above the wild grass. There is silence . . . a blanket of...
