Dear Readers -
We live in a time of rapidly disappearing old values and many of us search
for a good once known as happiness. A time when, in spite of the many
acquisitions of modern civilization, we feel alone, isolated and often
under great stress. Some of us find gratification in artistic pursuits such
as painting or poetry. Suree Snyder is one such artist that found such an
outlet in both!
Her art adheres to the natural spirit where colors and brush strokes
divulge her subjects mirroring her own nostalgia depicting a silent calm
and reveal the artist's own heart and mind.
Her lucid colors emphasize the beauty and liveliness of nature in
romantically soothing scenes integrating symbolic expressions of love. She
imbues her subjects with simple beauty painting its symbols into her
canvases in a style reminiscent of naive painters, as she finds their style
most suitable for expressing the conceptual aspects of her art. The
idealized archetypes and formative deformations so typical in primitive art
are present in hers but they are not the result of deficient painting
techniques; it is a consciously simplified artistic approach tinted with innocent romanticism.
- Alex Nodopaka
poems by: Didi Menendez & Alex Nodopaka
poems by: Rae Pater & Craig Kirchner
poem by: Peggy Meeks-King
poems by: Wendy Howe & Craig Kirchner
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Tides
by Janie Hubbell
Somewhere
along the water
she trips in tides
her instinct—mothering
across finite distances
her red-blooded tribe
scattered
like a hurricane-force wind
sewn elsewhere
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