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Simplicity William Trostel’s photography shows us that there is beauty in what is most simple.

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It’s Not A Collage

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Sea Art On Dry Land

An updated art medium inspired by a refocused Robb Smith.

Artists and volunteers unite to create art using the ocean’s most dangerous pollutant.

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Creating Solitude Nature, landscape, and wateracolors come together by Dymond Phillips, creating serenity and solitude.

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The Evolution of Art Man has always used art as a form of expression. Some of the most significant art movements in history are covered.

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Beautifully Flawed Rebecca Sutton uses her art to explore the behavior of women who are uninhibited and unaware that anyone is watching.

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Now, in the grown-up world, I still crave art.

elcome to the first issue of ArtDiction Magazine! This magazine was being inspired before I was even aware of it. For as long as I can remember, I ran towards anything creative.

By the time I was seven years old, I had designed a host of paper dolls with corresponding outfits that could be worn for weeks with no repeats. I would run to the mailbox for my latest Weekly Reader book that was delivered especially for me. I carried that book around with me until the next one arrived in the mail. I played video games. I drew. I wrote stories. I painted.

I choreographed dance routines on my grandparents’ porch with my cousins.

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Art, in any form, is my habit. I habitually look for creative inspiration throughout my day. To get through the day.

Now, in the grown-up world, I still crave art: fashion illustration, writing, design and animation, drawing, painting, music and dance, photography.

I still carry a book with me everywhere I go, but I’ve added ArtDiction Magazine to my bag. I hope you will too.

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Because I’m certain so many of you need a regular dose of art just like me, we are bringing the art to you. This magazine celebrates and promotes art and artists from well-known genres and from some that aren’t so popular. In this issue, visit Robb Spath’s rebellious art medium (page 14), and stare as long as you want at Rebecca Sutton’s drawings of beautifully flawed women (page 33). And because this is our beginning, we thought it appropriate to look at art’s journey--its beginning to where it is now (page 15).

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Simplicity William Trostel grew up in Central Pennsylvania and discovered he felt most natural with a camera in his hand. Trostel was drawn to the beauty he saw around him in the simple, unlikely places--architecture, the countryside, skylines, or poverty-stricken communities. “I fell in love with the beauty of capturing moments in time.�

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news

Fashion Under Armour: From Sweats to Sweaters Under Armour, Inc., popularly known for its line of workout clothing, will add fashion to its brand. The new collection, UAS (Under Armour Sportswear), will be led by executive creative director Tim Coppens.

According to Ben Pruess, the company’s senior vice president of sportswear, UAS will debut this fall and will include women’s and men’s apparel, footwear and accessories.

“The brand can’t live up to its fullest expression of itself without capturing this element and

this opportunity in the market,” Pruess stated. “It also affords us the opportunity to reach a new consumer.”

The company stated that it does not want UAS associated with “sneaker culture” known for baggy, casual looks.

“It’s much more in the mold of traditional American sportswear focused on daily, fashionable separates for an ambitious consumer,” Pruess added.

“It doesn’t look like you just rolled out of bed on a Sunday

and you are heading to the office,” Pruess said. “It’s a fresh take on American sportswear.

You’ll get this quick sense that this is not like everything else that’s out there.”

Museums

Smithsonian Crosses the Pond

Inking Bottles Tattoo sleeves are not just for your arm anymore.

Luke Wessman, Miami Ink tattoo artist, has designed a label for a bottle of red wine, appropriately named Full Sleeve. Check out his interview where he describes his design process on www.artdictionmagazine.

After 170 historic years, Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian Institution is poised to open a museum in London. The Smithsonian will team up with the local Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). “Through a collaboration with one of the world’s great museums, we will be able to inspire and educate more people than ever before,” said Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton. The Smithsonian reported that it will help develop exhibitions from its own collection to be displayed at V&A that may include permanent and traveling exhibits of art, history, culture and science. “With the V&A in London, we can build bridges to other countries and continents and share our work with the world,” Skorton stated.

Admission into the Smithsonian’s permanent exhibits in London will be free of charge, just as it is in the United States.

Approximately 1.5 million people each year are expected to visit the Smithsonian’s new site, according to London authorities.

Currently, the Smithsonian has 138 million pieces and specimens in its collection; however, most remain in storage due to lack of space at the institution’s 19 current museums and nine science-research centers. V&A stated that the institution plans to open by 2021.

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It’s Not A Collage You can’t have great art without honesty and vulnerability. They are the very rooms in which art dwells.

Robb Spath has found these rooms. And what’s more? He lets us inside. We had a few questions for Robb. His answers are just as inviting.

AD: When and how did you begin making this type of art?

RS: I started doing my work sometime mid-year 2013. I had sort of reached a dangerous crossroad in my life. I had just lost my job, which I really loved at that time. As a result, one couldn’t tell the difference between my life and the Prodigy video for “Smack My Bitch Up”.

It got a bit out of control, so I began desperately searching for methods to keep myself sane during a [deep] depression. I started cutting up a bunch of comic books I had around the house into neat segments. I found the sound of the scissors on the paper and the precision I would apply to cutting each panel soothed my nerves TREMENDOUSLY. Now, I’m surrounded by shoe boxes full of comic book panels. Then I came across a book of Gig posters at a thrift store and absolutely fell in LOVE with these vivid intoxicating band posters. I began to combine the panels as a background to display these posters. Friends would see the finished product and think or ask if I was responsible for the art behind them. This raised a personal challenge for me, the University of the Arts Theatre Major (aka career waiter) to create something of my own that was as electric and face-melting as these artists of these posters I had.

AD: What do you call this type of art?

RS: Since the medium I was using was only paper, I started checking out collage artists, clip art, paper cutting. Then I started using different textiles and other random stuff in some of my work, so I researched mixed media. But it was still unclear how I could describe to people what type of art I was creating. So I would always say “collage.” I would find myself having such a Heathers-style, superficial hatred of the word because the reaction was always the same—elementary art class (Lesson 1) and vision boards. At the risk of exposing my inner geek, it just wasn’t edgy enough to apply to what I was creating. Up until you posed that question to me, that’s what I’ve been calling it. I’d like to call it X-acto Art, simply because the blade is my brush.

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It’s Not A Collage

AD: I see a lot of musically inspired pieces. Are you a fan of music?

RS: I am a HUGE fan of music; it plays a vital role in the construction of each piece. I actually make a playlist of specific songs before I begin a new piece that I think matches the vibe of that piece. It helps during the process to keep my vision center stage. In my regular life music is my gasoline, my therapist and a lot of times my muse. I think musicians have such an amazing gift of reaching the soul more than any other art form.

AD: What else inspires you?

RS: I would say for about the last year, artists like Sia and especially Banksy [by] the way they get the world to focus on their vision or message as well as their art without making it about THEM. The way Banksy's art gets so many to travel outside their comfort zones to get a glimpse at his unapologetic thought provoking views of the world we live in, all the while getting the conventional art world in a bit of a tizzy with his hit-and-run style of art. By making the world his canvas, his reach expands to those who may never get the opportunity to be exposed to such artistic expression. The countless charitable acts he does with his art is probably the most inspiring and he still remains faceless. That is a beautiful thing.

Robb Spath, Jammed

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books

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he premise of Seveneves is intriguing: What if the end of the world had nothing to do with global warming, nuclear proliferation or ideological genocide? What if it was a random event? And what if we had time to prepare for the end? I’m not giving anything away by saying that this book deals with the end of the world; the very first sentence has the moon blowing up. What differentiates this book from other dystopian sci-fi, though, is how the story develops. Seveneves feels honest and almost uncomfortably real, from the astronauts in space realizing that they will never be able to go home again, to the select few on Earth who must come to terms with leaving everything and everyone they love behind for a chance to survive.

The science and technical expertise in the book are also stellar; not surprising considering the author, Neal Stephenson, holds degrees in physics and geography. I can only imagine being smart enough to write something this detailed and epic. Where the story primarily seems to falter is its description of future events. Five thousand years is quite a leap, and the story takes some leaps of its own, not all of which retain the authenticity of earlier chapters.

Still, for the sci-fi enthusiast, the book is well worth the read. lot of the reviews I’ve read on Fates and Furies call it “Gone Girl lite”, and it is easy to see why. The basic structure of two different views of

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a marriage and a twist that turns things on their head is very similar in both Gillian Flynn’s novel and this one. While Gone Girl was a thriller, however, Fates and Furies is more of a character exploration. It feels that Lauren Groff was aiming for something slightly to the left of Flynn’s; something more basic about the secret person each individual brings to a relationship and how much we reveal to each other.

Had Groff been successful in realizing this premise, Fates and Furies would have been an extraordinary book.

Unfortunately, the novel’s poignant truth gets buried under melodramatic writing and the unlikeable personalities (and overblown sex drives) of its lead characters. It’s hard to get interested in anyone in the book, much less care about them; the scenarios they are put in seem unlikely at best, but more often ludicrous. A few surprises in the second half might keep you reading to the end, but frankly, you’re much better off skipping this one altogether. have to admit right up front: I only put this book on my list to read because I loved Aziz Ansari in Parks and Recreation. I figured, “Hey, if nothing else, at least it will be funny.”

And while the book is definitely funny, it is also meticulously researched and a rather fascinating glimpse into dating history, as well as the current dating landscape. It shows how modern life and technology have not

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only changed who we marry and when, but also our motivations for getting in relationships to begin with. The material for Modern Romance was culled from a wide number of sources: retirement communities, Reddit forums, international focus groups, data from Match.com and OKCupid, even Ansari’s own shows across the country. Particularly entertaining were the actual text message conversations that participants shared; if you think you’ve flubbed a text or two, some of these may make you feel a lot better. And for anyone who has ever wondered if international waters might be warmer, the interviews done in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Paris, and Doha are illuminating reads. If you’re looking for a dating guide, this will not be the book for you; the book is informative, not instructive. But for the budding social anthropologist, it does provide a lot of insight into the minds of people and modern romance.

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music Last Year Was Complicated Nick Jonas

This is the third studio album of the former boy band member.

Even though it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it is a little disappointing. In fact, it’s quite uncomplicated. Nick Jonas does not switch up his style by trying something new or experimenting with the tracks. In a crowded field of pop artists, he surely could have done better.

musician. The alternative dance album is a much happier material from the artist who has previously recorded dark albums. Tracks such as ‘’A Love Song’’ and ‘’Wild Things’’ are high tempo and upbeat. It is an album that is worth listening to.

Summer on Sunset Wale

Wale’s mixtape is full of guest appearances including Cam’ron, The Dog Pound, Jim Ross, even Jerry Seinfeld himself

The Dreaming Room Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula shows her vocal prowess on The Dreaming Room. With deep lyrics dwelling mostly on the complexities of life, the British soul singer and songwriter has presented a cocktail of tracks that many of her fans will enjoy listening to. The album can easily be summarized as passionate yet delicate. It is a good listen.

Wild Things Ladyhawke

(a piggyback from The Album About Nothing). Even still, Wale will never be in anyone’s Top Five mentions, but he doesn’t know that. The tape is full of lyrics showing Wale’s self-confidence, for which he should be applauded. But his lack of depth, few metaphors, and inferior storytelling makes his latest work just okay.

The Getaway

Red Hot Chili Peppers This is Red Hot Chili Pepper’s eleventh studio album and the first one since 1989 that does not have Rick Rubin as the producer. His absence has not corroded the band’s signature style though. The Getaway is by far Red Hot Chili Pepper’s most exuberant album to date. It has some deep and reflective tracks such as Dark Necessities that attempts to lift the veil on the band’s struggles. The showy guitar solos are still very much a part of the band’s tracks, but less pronounced this time. All in all, it is a great, mature album and a very decent project from the band.

Victor Isaac

This is the third studio album by the New Zealand born

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exhibits GE X Android Homme

Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection The work of European and American artists is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibit highlights contemporary art from the past 50 years. Curated by Philadelphians, Keith and Katherine Sachs, the showing includes large-scale photograph, painting and video art.

The collection includes art from Ellsworth Kelly, Jeff Wall, Louise Bourgeois, and Charles Ray. The exhibit will be open until Septermber 5, 2016. www.philamuseum.org The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum. The exhibit also features prototype drawings from Nike Archives and an informative presentation of Air Jordans I–XX3. www.high.org

Eye for Design Eye for Design displays graphic designs from artists who chose hand-rendered illustrations, bold colors, and typography

instead of corporate design in the 1960s and 1970s.

The technique of such artists as Linda Hinrichs and Emil Antonucci influenced Pop and Fluxus art. Eye for Design is curated by Elissa Auther and Samantha De Tillio. The art is on display at the Museum of Arts and Design until September 18, 2016. www.madmuseum.org Emil Antonucci (designer), The Art of Personal Adornment, 1965 on display at Eye for Design

Card Players Š Jeff Wall

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture This exhibit (open until August 14, 2016) at the High Museum of Art displays 155 sneakers and explores the history of sneakers that originated in the 19th century. Featured sneakers include Puma, Converse, Prada and designs in collaboration with Kanye West and Damien Hirst.

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Sea Art On Dry Land roken brooms, buckets, BObjects buttons, and brushes. that are generally

thrown away and, too frequently, tossed into the ocean. What begins to make these trashed objects particularly interesting is the Washed Ashore project.

Founded in 2010 by Angela Haseltine Pozzi, an artist who had spent years working with recycled material, Washed Ashore takes trash collected from beaches and erects magnificent works of marine life.1

Partnered with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea has launched its latest exhibit. Lined along the zoo’s walkways stand 17 sculptures that not only show the beauty of the animals in the ocean, but also the dangers that those animals face from the carelessness of 1 “Washed Ashore – Art To Save The Sea Bandon.” 2008. 26 May. 2016 http://washedashore.org

humans.

Walking among the sculptures highlights the importance of the issue that they were created to showcase.

The plastic used to make each sculpture is vibrant, reflecting the natural beauty of the water’s depths that is being destroyed. The duality of the plastic echoes the duality of the sculptures: by themselves they are breathtakingly beautiful, but when you realize that each one is made of plastic collected from beaches, you realize just how important this issue has become.

Washed Ashore has collected over 18 tons of plastic and made over 65 sculptures that tour the country, facts that are terrifying considering some biologists predict that there are over 150 million tons of plastic in the ocean2. And yet, these 2 “Ocean trash turned into a thing of beauty.”

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sculptures make the plastic seem like a good thing. How could something so devastating create such beautiful works of art?

My personal favorite is Octavia the Octopus, a whimsical piece of trash­ Legos that is clearly having fun with the objects it finds, waving a decoy Canadian goose around in one of its tentacles. Its brilliant red pieces of trash mold it into a spectacle of the pure beauty that our world holds...so long as we can keep it alive.

This exhibit, while only around until the middle of September, allows a great opportunity to take the kids to the nation’s zoo. Not only will they enjoy the natural elegance of the park and the playful sculptures, but they can also learn about the importance of protecting our world and the animals that live here.

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Creating Solitude

Artistry and solitude often go hand-in-hand. Most creatives will tell you their best work comes when they’re alone during odd hours, deep into night, or in the early morning before any living creature begins to stir. Dymond Phillips uses watercolors to create scenery and landscapes that makes moments to oneself much desired.

Dymond Phillips Lake Beauty

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Dymond Phillips, The Reading Tree

Dymond Phillips, Beach

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The Evolution of Art Joshua Griffin, Devika Strother

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umans have always had the urge to express themselves for as long as they have known how; art is one of the oldest forms of expression. It’s objective, subjective, and in the eye of the beholder. Art, therefore, has an appeal to everyone. But when did it all begin?

Introduction The beginning of art cannot exactly be pinpointed. The earliest cave paintings, for instance, pre-date writing by thousands of years. Cave painting from the Stone Age was transformed into stone sculpturing and narrative relief during the Mesopotamian period. This art form was further fine-tuned during the Egyptian age as seen on the wall paintings later discovered inside the Egyptian pyramids.

Greek Art Around 500 B.C., Greek art dominated the art world. The Greeks were known for their perfection and idealism, and this was reflected in their sculptures and architectural design. However, painting remained the most sophisticated form

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The Evolution of Art of art among the ancient Greeks. Even the Romans who had more sophisticated architectures could not match the form of art that was in Greece.

The death of their ruler

coincided with the growth of Hellenistic art, which was more about heroicism and solemnity rather than classical realism. This era was influenced by the spread of Greek culture to the rest of the world, and as the Roman Empire rose to power, it merged its form of art with Greek art.

Roman Art Roman art was mainly aimed to awe the citizens and praise their political powers. The superiority of the Empire was incorporated into every Roman painting and sculpture (Figure 1). This form of art later changed with the division of the Roman

Byzantine. Art emerged from the divide, and it was comprised of Christianinfused art. This art involved only two dimensional paintings, as they believed that sculptures criticized their worshipping God. The Christian churches used art to convey their messages and spiritual teachings by adding paintings on the temples and church glasses.

Renaissance The Renaissance (which means “rebirth”) art movement in Europe took place between 1300 and 1600.

Renaissance art was based on appreciation of

Figure 1—Statue of Caesr Augustus.

The superiority of the Empire was incorporated into every Roman painting and sculpture.

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with creating the Baroque began creating Realism. style of sculpture. Baroque art then changed from dramatic representations Realism to art that embraced the grace and heroicism of the The explorative artists in characters being drawn. the Social Realistic political movement gained their In the late eighteenth to inspiration from the lives the early nineteenth cen- that common American tury, Romanticism art dom- citizens were living. It was inated the art world. Artists at the height of the Great took a personal relationDepression and racial ship to life and emotions conflict among the citizens, and represented it in the and the art depicted the form of art. This sudden plight of lower class citichange was factored by zens. Gustave Courbet is the French revolution; most one of the commemorated of Romantic art was moody social and political realists. landscape paintings by art- The artists then embraced Figure 2—A ceiling fresco painted by Christoph Thomas Scheffler, photographed

by Berthold Werner on August 14, 2008.

arts based on the belief of the nobility of men. This period brought about a cultural rebirth of literature and art not forgetting the intellect. It followed a dark period that was filled with war and disease. Artists who developed during this era include Leonardo da Vinci who painted “The Mona Lisa”, Giulio Romano, and Mathias Grunewald.

This form of art spread quickly through Germany, France, and the whole of Northern Europe.

The later war between the Catholics and Protestants lasting about 30 years brought about Baroque art (Figure 2), which was filled with dramatic representation. The sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is credited

The art depicted the plight of lower class citizens. ists such as Caspar David Friedrich (Figure 3). As the people grew more aware of their rights and recognized how socialism and politics were affecting their lives, the artists fully abandoned their fantastical work and

free and visual art. They expressed what they felt and saw, using decorations and colors to create abstract material.

The 20th Century Artistic tendencies and movements proliferated

Figure 3—Caspar David Friedrich’s painting, Woman on the Beach of Rügen.

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The Evolution of Art

Figure 4—Roger Noël François de La Fresnaye, Sitzender Mann.

the 20th century: Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Futurism, Cubism (Figure 4), Fluxis art (Figure 5), and Dada art (Figure 7).

Cubism was a movement that firmly rooted itself in art history and is credited to artist and innovator, Pablo Picasso. This broken abstract form of art influenced architecture, music, and literature early in the

Figure 6—Andy Warhol’s Coca-Cola bottles.

Figure 5—Paik Nam June’s Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii 1995-96.

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20th century. Later in 20th century, art went pop. Andy Warhol was at the center of this transformation.

Warhol used his skills as an illustrator and formed a marriage between art, iconic figures, and objects (Figure 6).

Modern Art Today, artistic expression has shifted dramatically.

Some modern artists

continue to use conventional materials such as marble, clay, and oil paint.

Other artists, however, have incorporated technology and have drifted miles away from traditional art mediums. Interactive art—video programs, light display units, flexible sculptural units, story making books, painting/drawing sets, and 3D-transformed art (Figure 8)—has evolved

into such a large niche with an unprecedented following that it is a challenge to imagine what will become of art as technology continues to advance. As we move farther away from the etchings on cave walls centuries ago into the undefinable, endless future with the use of technology, art’s definition will continue to change, but art itself will remain a constant fixture.

Figure 7—Dada art by Fenry Budiyanto.

Figure 8—3D art.

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Beautifully Flawed It is easy to spot a feminist, especially when we live in a world where a man can rape an unconscious woman and be sentenced to just six months in prison. Knee-jerk reactions to flaws in society come in all forms. Rebecca Sutton, a self-professed feminist, uses art to depict women as the exact creatures that they are, with the blemishes and flaws. She started this series two years ago.

“I began to purposefully move away from depicting anything that looked like prescribed beauty or women posing for people to look at them,” she says. “I wanted to create a world where the figures believed they were free from anyone’s gaze. They are nude not because they are to be looked at, but because they believe no one is watching.”

In these drawings, Sutton creates a world for women where their thoughts, ideas, and feelings are uninhibited. Her inspiration is linked to her observations. “The other day I saw a woman holding a poached egg in her hand. She slowly took one finger and burst it,” she recalls. “The yolk was dripping down her fingers. It was the most beautiful thing. She was being destructive and sat-isfying a tactile lust with a totally everyday object.”

Sutton explores the destructive part inside of women, while being aware that women rarely (and perhaps wisely) do not act on them. “I try and populate my paintings with mundane things that we see every day but transform them into a cathartic act of destruction. It’s very important to me that women are given the opportunity to do this because I think a lot of being a woman in this time and place is about self-containment.”

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Rebecca Sutton, Swallow Me Whole In My Sleep

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Rebecca Sutton, Tame Hands

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from the creative director If I had known that the young lady sitting in front of me in my 7th grade Pre-Calc class would, 25 years later, pull me into helping her create a magazine about art, I never would have believed you. In fact, even now, it seems a little unreal that this has actually happened. What started as a dream and hope for us to explore creative outlets has finally made it to the printer and into someone else’s hands. The journey has been a tedious one, albeit a lot of fun as well. We hope that this is the first of many issues and we hope that you join us as we, ArtDiction, and art itself continue to evolve.

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