The artists: Carved Voices

"Voices, carved into memory through undaunted expression!"

CARVED VOICES A CELEBRATION OF POETRY/ART 24TH MAY 2016, 1ST ISSUE CARVEDVOICES.WORDPRESS.COM

Our Founder/Editor Sonali Mohapatra (top middle) has a crazy heart....whose musings, more often that not, emanate an ardent sense of longing and earnest rebellion. She considers poetry as something deeply personal and very fluid, something that takes the shape of the person it goes into. Carved Voices began as the outpouring of her deep seated angst to make poetry and art mainstream. This quote by Henry Miller is often what imbibes her pen: "“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”

Our Co­founder/Editor Shantashree Mohanty (top left) is an existentialist rebel and our resident expert on death. A conversation with her might take you into uncharted territory which is piquantly glum yet very insightful, offering oft­startling revelations about all and sundry. In her musings, she frequently mixes lyricism with society defying truths in a delectable soup of letters which helps throw off the veil from the world just a little, just enough for to us to peek in behind the stage.

Our Co­founder/Editor Purujeet Parida (top right) is a science fiction worshipper and writer.

In the tapestry of his words, Stars twinkle as their light passes through the air, Truth becomes subjective as it passes through the sieve of our minds, to become opinion. No matter how dim or bright the star, how insightful or unfounded the viewpoint, opinion, like starlight, is precious.

"Carved Voices" is thrilled to introduce its international cohort of new­age artists whose voice rings with the power and the imagination that our magazine strives to take forward. We are starting our "meet­the­artist" series for our maiden issue.

Our very first featured wordsmith ladies and gentlemen, Madhura Duttagupta. heart emoticon heart emoticon Madhura has a Masters in Science from IISER­Kolkata, India.

In her own words, "Amidst the chaos and cacophony of the world, the need to be heard makes me pick up my pen."

Madhura has something to say about childhood and what they may not be and we at Carved Voices very emphatically agree.

Stay tuned to read her full work in our first issue coming soon!

DAVID BOWIE was relevantly radical, institutionally singular, an individual of the masses and massively over defined classes. He was the prophet of Colours and Harmony. With his tragic passing earlier this year, the world lost a teacher, a leader and a genuine entertainer.

Our featured artist Andrew McPherson has, all his life, drawn tremendous strength from Bowie’s exemplary life.

Andrew, himself a successful music producer, multi­instrumentalist and songwriter, has been nominated twice for a Juno Award (Canada's Grammys), placed 3rd in the 2014 International Songwriting Competition with his global music project ‘Eccodek’.

The 1st Issue of Carved Voices features a beautifully poignant ‘Letter’ written by Andrew to his most beloved musician Bowie. Stay tuned!

PS: Artist Photo Credit: Trina Koster

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Our next featured artist is, the incredible Debashis Saha.

Debashis is a PhD Scholar at University of Gdansk. At the same time, he's also a distinctly skilled portrait artist, specializing in the Black­White Chromatic Presentation.

We are so happy that one of his art­works will feature in our upcoming 1st Issue. Stay tuned!

Our next wordsmith is Ken Towne. Ken is a 26 year old avant­garde poet from Troy, New York. Ken lives with his head in the mountains and his heart in the city. He loves his whiskey as much as he loves beautiful women...but above most, Ken is a lover of words, in all their glory and their infinite potential.

The subtle imagery and the revolutionary syntax in his works, set him apart from many of his contemporaries.

We at Carved Voices are thrilled to feature one of his poems in our upcoming 1st Issue.

Stay tuned to find out why Ken is trying to make intelligence cool again.

Our next featured #wordsmith Karen Withecomb, is a Brighton poet and author. She runs and hosts a fortnightly poetry club called 'Shine So Hard'. She has lived in Brighton for seventeen years with her husband and two cats. She has worked in a variety of different jobs, most of which she jokes, have involved talking a lot.

In the 1st Issue of CARVED VOICES, Karen pours her heart out in a Letter to Musical Genius and the greatest torchbearer of Creative­freedom, #PRINCE.......whose unfortunate demise last month, left the entire world, shocked and pained.

Stay tuned to read Karen's impassioned take on the glorious legacy of PRINCE.

Our next wordsmith Archismita Misra, has a Master's Degree in Chemical Sciences from IISER Kolkata...and one of the greatest passions of her life is LITERATURE. She recollects a profound turning point that came quite early in her life, with these words: 'The quiet and observant four year old was presented with a blue diary and Utopia was never the same anymore. She painted, she bled, she whispered her emotions and with time, words became her wings of survival.'

Stay tuned to read about the Poet's intoxicated quest for resurrection in the hands of her love.

#Carved_Voices is thrilled to feature the works of International Graphics­Artist RYSZARD PAWEŁ KOSTECKI (Afanasol Benz) in it's maiden issue !

As he says in his own words, Ryszard was "Born in Siberia. Grew up in Poland. Lives in Canada. Was formerly a C++ programmer. Currently a mathematical physicist. Future yoga teacher. Sometimes an artist. Always a philosopher. Partially a child. Likes reality.

Acknowledges uncertainty, relativity, and silence. Has attachments."

His artistic pseudonym is "道Дༀ".

This photo is CC BY SA 3.0 by Maria Julia Skubis & Ryszard Paweł Kostecki.

Ryszard's work has layers and layers of mystery and surrealism to it.

Stay tuned folks. Its getting exciting here!

Our next #Wordsmith Saurav Dutta calls himself an 'accidental poet'... yet his impressive imagination often evokes intense emotions and testifies to his admirable maturity.

Currently pursuing his research in Paleontology, Saurav is a nature lover. Inspired by Steve Irwin, he wishes to spread awareness about importance of animals in our day to day life. He loves playing drums as he believes he can connect to nature through it. His poetry also plays with human emotions while using metaphors from nature and nature related activities Stay tuned to read his beautiful poem on contemplation of serendipity in our 1st Issue.

Our next featured artist Dipanjana Dalui, weaves magic with her paint brush.

Dipanjana loves the million tints and hues of this world.

Old churches, colorful temples, winding roads, higher peaks and deeper valleys mesmerise her soul.

Stay tuned to see Dipanjana's art work in the 1st issue of CARVED VOICES.

Continuing with our "meet­the­artist" series, this day, today, we have from among our international cohort of new­age wordsmiths, Saswat Samantaray.

Saswat, hailing from Bhubaneswar, India, is a Senior Legal Associate at Quislex Legal India, Hyderabad.

He is reportedly writing an anthology of poems from which we have been lucky to have acquired one to feature in our maiden issue. Saswat writes about the dubious coherence of togetherness. Stay tuned to read his full work in the first issue of Carved Voices.

Say hello to Vicky Red Grantham !

Vicky is an avant­garde poet who lives in Brighton, United Kingdom. She works as Marketing Officer for the Royal Ballet Benevolent Fund. An avid patron of the arts and co­ founder of The Moonlight Gathering, she regularly organises poetry­reading sessions and musical gigs in her locality.

In her poem, Vicky voices some significant concerns regarding the state of the National Health Service in England. Stay tuned to read her full work!

Our final featured artist is PRITISH NAYAK (Rocco Nayak).

He is the youngest creative­ninja to find a place in the upcoming 1st Issue of CARVED VOICES. A storehouse of talent and potential, Pritish is currently pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Commerce. We are psyched to have him on board!

Stay tuned to see his work in our 1st issue.

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