“Patterns” Featured Artist Rebecca L. Oxford
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome poet and visual artist Rebecca L. Oxford of Alabama with two inspiring poems to open our “Patterns” issue. Rebecca draws our attention to the balance …
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to …
Quote for Today: Gayle Rubin
Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never …
Quote for Today: Anselm Kiefer
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #7: Luke Jerram’s SARS CoV-2 Model from Bristol, England
Day 7 of the globe-trotting Travel Series takes us to Bristol, England, where artist Luke Jerram designs models of viruses which are then executed in blown glass. The effort is …
Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should …
Water from the Air: The Miracles of Warka Water
Billions of people lack access to clean water and adequate sanitation. Is there anything creative people can do to help? The picturesque and rugged high plateau region of northeast Ethiopia …
Art and Agriculture: Sam van Aken and the Tree of Forty Fruit
Art often grants insight, but can it provide solutions? Creativity meets agriculture in the work of artist Sam van Aken. Sam van Aken is head of the Sculpture Program at Syracuse University, and …