Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome writer and photographer Gwendolyn Womack of Houston with two luminous kaleidoscope photographs that revel in color, texture, and transformation. Aurora Borealis Rose unfurls in shades of red, pink, and orange, a floral constellation that seems to pulse with heat. Amethyst in Bloom—one of our “Patterns” Cover Contest finalists—shimmers in a cooler spectrum of blue, violet, and silver. Here the kaleidoscope refuses containment, its geometry spilling beyond the frame, creating a subtle tension between order and expansion. Strong textures suggest motion and metamorphosis. Gwendolyn’s images invite us to linger inside the shifting symmetry, mesmerized by light and shadow.
View Gwendolyn’s shimmering kaleidoscopes in Synkroniciti’s “Patterns” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Gwendolyn Womack is an award-winning USA Today bestselling author. Her latest novel, a YA thriller titled The Premonitions Club, published this year, and up next is a sci-fi romantic adventure, The Last Labyrinth coming April 1, 2026. She also is an adjunct faculty member for Houston Community College, teaching screenwriting, and lives in Houston.
Collecting and photographing kaleidoscopes has been her passion hobby for years. She often calls them mandalas of light and loves to share them.