In this issue

The winter 2016 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly features art and photography by M. J. Edwards (Memory: Transfer, Trace, and Transition), Katarzyna Lappin (California Landscapes), Jeffrey Stoner (Goats of Roan), and Michael Washburn (Unworldly Landscapes: Namibia); fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca Berg (Wendy's Room), Austin Gilmour (Darkness in the Eastern Sky), Jacqueline Guidry (Conjurer's Craft), Michael Paul Hogan (Li Bin), Matthew Hummer (This Is Not the Future), and Naomi Beth Wakan (The Art of Solitude). Regular columnists are Peter Azrak (I Pray For a Life of Going Nowhere), Vincent Louis Carrella (The Old Barn), and Leslie Ihde (On Throwing Things Away. This issue also features images from Still Point Art Gallery's exhibition Solitude.

The Old Barn

The photograph above, by Jeffrey Stoner, is part of Still Point Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Solitude (see more images from this show on the previous pages).

8 mins

The Art Of Solitude

Solitude isn’t loneliness; it’s different. With solitude, you belong to yourself. With loneliness, you belong to no one.

7 mins

Wendy's Room

If sleep, a noise could reach in. Drag you out. Not sleep. No noise. No silence even. All walls sealed. Unconsciousness — the word she couldn’t think of twelve years ago. Except here she was. The mind watching itself. And wasn’t that the definition of consciousness? An ultramarine impasto. As if she knew brushstrokes. Odd, because in this life, Wendy Kochman had been an amateur violist. A failed academic and a mother. Never a painter.

9 mins

On Throwing Things Away

I will work until my mind finds peace, even if that means I will work for a very long time.

5 mins

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Still Point Arts Quarterly Magazine Description:

Still Point Arts Quarterly is a truly beautiful publication with a clear focus on art, artists, and artistry. Each issue includes portfolios of contemporary artists as well as articles, essays, fiction, and poetry. Featured artists have included painters, photographers, and mixed-media artists from around the world; featured writers have included novelists, frequent contributors to literary journals, nominees for the Pushcart Prize, and chapbook poets. The Quarterly has been praised for its rich content, magnificent reproduction of artwork, and splendid layout and design. Intended for artists as well as art enthusiasts.