Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming back Bostonian writer and photographer Kelly DuMar. We are thrilled with “Family,” which graces the cover for the “Family” issue, and also with three more photos, ranging from the abstract to the representational. “Family” is a marvelous photo of a natural ice formation which evokes human figures. The intensity of the colors: deep blue, bright gold, stark white, make the image eye-catching, while pareidolia helps us contemplate our concept of family. “Rorschach Family” is a monochromatic, more abstracted ice image which connotes cell division and generation. Both of these images center on the importance of the mother, the nurturer of life. A stunning winter scene of two swans drifting together on the Charles River during a snowstorm, “swans in snow” connotes pairing or marriage. The last photo is “Hatchlings and Hands,” in which we see baby turtles in the hands of generations of family members, augmented by the hand of the youngest human and the paw of the family dog. This shows how our human families can participate in the survival and triumph of other species. Kelly uses her photographic talents to frame images that reveal much about how we relate to one another and to the world around us.
View Kelly’s photographs and read about her process in “Messages from the Subconscious: Synchronicity in the Found Photos of Kelly DuMar” a featured article in our “Family” issue, available at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March 2023. Her poems and images are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush, Glassworks, Flock and more, and her images have been featured on the cover of About Place and Young Ravens Literary Review. Kelly teaches a variety of creative writing workshops, in person and online, and she teaches Play Labs for the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Transformative Language Arts Network. Kelly produces the Featured Open Mic for the Journal of Expressive Writing. Her home is the rural Charles River where she walks and captures images of the wetlands in all weather. Reach her at kellydumar.com.