March 2012 by Quiescent Magazine

RM racing minds magazine

Vol. 2 | Issue 8 | MAR.2012

Taylor Barringer

Dear Readers,

This is it, this is the end. This was honestly one of the hardest decisions Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to make when it comes to this magazine, but I just feel like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right. (If you wish to know more about why I am ending this, read onto the next page, but you dont have to.) This magazine was more than I expected and I have gotten so many nice comments about it that I will be forever grateful. The end of the Racing Minds era. But I hope you all enjoy this last issue.

Sinerely, Sarah

After I announced the end of Racings Minds, my friend Kay said that since the start of the magazine, the concept of creating a magazine had been beaten to death. I agree with her completely. When I started Racing Minds, the idea was all my own. Before Racing Minds, I had a blog where I interviewed 50 different photographers before ending it.That idea had come from somewhere else, and everytime someone asked where the idea had come from I would say where it did, but wishing that it was my own. But when I started Racing Minds… it was all mine. I think there was only one other art magazine that I saw through Flickr, but it had no influence on me whatsoever (actually, I cant remember which happened first, me starting RM or me finding INK…). The idea was mine and I cherished it. Racing Minds wasnt great at first, I cringe now looking back on those first issues, but it felt unique, at least for a while. And then more magazines started popping up. Some started by people that had actually been involved in RM, others by people that knew about my magazine, and others by people with no knowledge whatsoever. The latter I was okay with, but for some reason I couldnt help but dislike the magazines (at least at first) that had been started by people who had been involved with mine. In a way I guess, I felt betrayed. Or maybe not betrayed exactly… I guess the feeling could only be understood by someone else in my positon. Its now almost two years in since starting Racing Minds. The Two Year Issue is set to be released in a week, and I am excited of course, but I not nearly as excited as I used to be. I used to be so happy creating this magazine; I would get most of one issue done not even a week after the previous one had been published. This issue… I barely even started until last week. And Ive had two months to work on this after the release of the January issue. All of the new magazines have started to suck my love of mine away from me. I guess maybe some of you will think that that feeling is silly, but its true. And I know the idea itself of a magazine isnt mine, but it was mine for the community of artists around me, at least for a while. I dont love creating this magazine anymore. I dont love it at all. Racing Minds will always be my baby, but its not the same as it used to be. I remember why I started this magazine: to show artists. I wanted to be able to show unknown artists, and even though yes, I had known artists in there as well, it was showing the unknowns that made me truly happy. And then that idea got lost as well… Racing Minds started being run by submissions, and sometimes it was fantastic, and other times I really just didnt want to disappoint the people emailing me, so I said yes. I never liked saying no. I think I only said no to someone once, until I closed submissions anyways. This magazine hasnt felt good and right to me in just so long. I just dont love it like I used to. I want you all to understand something though; I dont hate the new magazines that pop up. I wonder why they were started, yes. I started Racing Minds not to be noticed myself, but for others to be noticed through me. But I dont know if that can be said of some of the people who start magazines now. I truly hope it can be, but I dont know. I dont hate these magazines though; I dont even dislike them. I hope them well, I wish them luck, but I want to remind those creators to ask themselves why they started and why they love doing what they do. If they can answer unselfishly, they are fantastic people. And I hope thats true of all of them. I love you all, truly. Especially those of you that have stuck with me from the beginning two years ago, or even from the beginning of my interview blog three years ago. But even if you have found this magazine more recently, I still love you. And I will miss you all for now. Sincerely, Sarah

staff Editor-in-Chief Sarah Nieman

Layout Designer Sarah Nieman

Editors Caiti Borruso Maria Kaffa Louisiana Mei Gelpi Photographers Caiti Borruso Lauren R W Miriam Subbiah Louise Spence

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Racing Minds: Tell us a little bit about yourself, like

your name, age, location, and whatever other random facts you wish to say. Pakayla Rae Biehn: Hi everyone! My name is Pakayla Rae Biehn, I’m twenty five and a half. I’m living in San Francisco now but I’m making the transcontinental move to New York, specifically Brooklyn, come April showers and May flowers. I have long locks that are a bit ratty on the ends. I like autobiographies best. I wear glasses all of the time. I have nine plants in my room and I like to collect my friends pony tails. RM: Describe your work a little bit for us. What do you do, what media do you work with, etc. PRB: The easiest description of what I make is photorealistic paintings based on double exposure photographs. I work with oil and acrylic paints, canvas, photoshop, cameras, film, and hair. I always like to include an element of nature in my paintings. My paintings are mainly portraits. The majority of my subjects faces are abstracted or hidden by foliage, or some other distraction, to keep them somewhat anonymous to the viewer.

compensates for what the world doesn’t give me. Selfdiscovery. I honestly don’t know what else I would do. Maybe in a selfish way, I like to attach some worth to my life.

RM: What is your favorite memory? PRB: I have a horrible memory. But my life at the moment is pretty memorable. Nostalgic for now!

RM: What’s one thing you push yourself to do? PRB: I try and work a

It’s persistence that keeps a lot of artist from being stagnant and that commitment to do something everyday is a struggle.

RM: When was it that you started creating? Why? PRB: Every one starts creating when they are very

young. Parents (hopefully) encourage their little ones to make things, draw, paint, collage, anything that makes their imaginations grow! I think it’s that I never grew out of that love of making things with my hands. RM: What do you think is the most important quality in an artist? PRB: A constant search for personal truths.

RM: Why do you create? PRB: I like to mark time. I want to have a sort of au-

tonomy with my work. And get to know myself better through what I make. I like to think that my work

bit every day. It’s persistence that keeps a lot of artist from being stagnant and that commitment to do something everyday is a struggle. I have to force myself to sit and paint even if I’m having an awful day, or I’m just not in the mood. It’s a big internal struggle, but the outcome is always positive. RM: What defines home to you? PRB: Home is warmth

and comfort. RM: What’s your favorite word? PRB: Paramount! I purchased a bicycle because it was made in my birth year and called the Schwinn Paramount. And it’s this beautiful orchid purple color. Trifecta!

RM: What would you like to achieve in the future? PRB: I’d like to have a painting in a museum! I’d love

to build a cabin with my hands. When I was younger I used to make stained glass with my grandpa in his studio that over looked the lake that he and my grandma lived in, I would love to pick that craft back up again. I would like to always remain resourceful and hopeful.

RM: How much do you feel you have grown as an art-

ist since you started creating? PRB: So, so much. I’m constantly looking for personal growth opportunities. It’s important to stay self aware.

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Racing Minds: Tell us a little bit about yourself, like all three influenced me to enhance my imagination your name, age, location, and whatever other random facts you wish to say. Jaymeson Jeffers: My name is Jaymeson (Jaymie) Jeffers. I have only 19 years of experience in this body, although it feels like an entire lifetime and then some. I was born in Bellingham, Washington and raised in Houston, Texas which is where I currently am as of now. I owe all aspects of my creativity to every minute fragment of my life’s experiences.

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through reading and writing and drawing and making up my own little games. Although, there was a period of my life where I got caught up in the ideals they push on us through the media, just like pretty much everyone else who grew up in this culture, which in turn limited what I did creatively for a while. From that point on it wasn’t until I started experimenting with psychedelics that I got re-introduced to my creative, imaginative, open-minded self. It definitely was a process to get back into, with all these learned ideals that only limited the confidence I had in my creative self. For a while it was just me comparing what I created to the creations of others and really limiting my imagination because of it, until I slowly learned to have patience and no expectations. Then it became more of an expressive, therapeutic thing for me.

I create because it keeps me sane, it reminds me how infinite the universe really is and how unlimited we really are in terms of transforming imagination into a physical reality.

work a little bit for us. Looking through your photostream its obvious you work in several different media, so tell us about what you do. JJ: My work on Flickr consists of digital and film photographs, drawings, graphic designs, hand-made collages, and other forms of traditional art that I experiment with such as spray paint art or work with pastels, etc. I’ve also picked up videography/cinematography, making music videos and short informative videos as well, along with amateur music production/engineering... all of which you can find on my YouTube channel ( youtube.com/ lucidddddd ). Also in my personal time away from what I share with others through the internet, I love making jewelry, recycling old clothes into new ones, and any other do-it-yourself projects that catch my interest.

RM: When was it that you started creating? Why? JJ: I’ve been creating ever since I was old enough to do

so. I grew up with my mother and two older sisters who

RM: What do you

think is the most important quality in an artist? JJ: I really feel that the most important quality in an artist is their ability to just create in this sort of natural flow without any self-judgment or without comparing their work to the work of others. Comparing our work and judging it accordingly only limits what we’re able to express creatively. Creating without any expectations enables us to do so in a way that expresses the truest potentials of our imagination.

RM: Why do you create? JJ: I create because it keeps me sane, it reminds me how infinite the universe really is and how unlimited we

really are in terms of transforming imagination into a physical reality. The endless variety of what we can create reminds me that there’s never a reason to be bored.

RM: What is your favorite memory? JJ: I have too many great memories to choose one favorite, but I guess my favorite memories are the one’s I have of my childhood while I still had a completely fresh mind of fascination unlimited by any ideals or worries. My imagination was so vivid back then, so pure.

RM: What’s one thing you push yourself to do? This could be art related, or not related to art at all. JJ: I push myself to fill my time with things that will positively influence and benefit and inspire me, and therefore the people I influence in return.

RM: What defines home to you? JJ: Home, to me, is anywhere you find peace and happiness. I could travel to a variety of different places and

consider the places I love as home.

RM: What would you like to

achieve in the future? JJ: I want to achieve a happy future of being active, healthy, and at peace. I want to a achieve having compassion for everyone I cross paths with, and achieve a positive influence on as many people as I can.

RM: How much do you feel you

have grown as an artist since you started? JJ: I have definitely grown tremendously as an artist since I first started creating. In the beginning, it was more so me trying to be as good of an artist as the artists I enjoyed, rather than creating to express my own self as an individual... which in turn, of course, lead me to give up so easily due to that constant comparison. I’ve been growing as an artist ever since I learned to just let go and do my own thing, and there will always be more room to keep growing.

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----------------Introduction ----------------Have you watched the night skies? We seem to only look up at the midday sun. We lay on our backs and watch the clouds swim by, or stare out our windows when rain reminds us of an outside world. But it’s the pure, open sky on an unbroken night that calls us so clearly to the empty kingdom of space. The atmosphere, whisked away by dusk, and filled with a light so often drowned in blue. The wild and weeping moon pours in wailing waves upon us, a harsh and dim light making every white object glow and shimmer. Then in the distance, somewhere beyond beyond, in the furthest reaches of what we dream is out there, the stars come alive. Twinkling their uncertain, fearful flame, shedding no light upon you for all their gathered strength. You want to scream out in ecstasy, a passionate declaration to the land of the living skies. This time, there’ll be no holding it in. Let your laughter ring out in unbound joy and break the shackles of every pain you think you need. Unrestrained, you swim in the fires of heavenly light. It could end now without a single fear for the unfinished novel. Spread your lips, and breathe deep the taste of delight.

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“Home Is Where the Stars Are” home is where the stars are home is... so close and yet so far home is... just beyond the city across these fields of greatest fears and old self-pity home is... where fog has faded what the sun has shown home is... where every seven years you get a whole new set of bones home is... where everyone’s buried their telephones bought pens and paper and gone wading in the ocean foam where everyone’s got their head in the clouds and toes buried in the growing loam home is where the stars are home is... so close and yet so far

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“Unearthly Glow” androgynous, the man in the moon planning a second coming soon mirror, mirror, in the sky twist a soaring beauty from a beautiful lie we will dance in the shade of blue blood sink to the surface in a flood of white light make footprints on the water at horizon’s brink and dive for cover where the disciples sink androgynous, the man in the moon singing a sailor’s shanty tune brought to his knees by as little as a gun at the feet of a flaming female sun we sit here burning cold as embers as the shadows sing of missing feathers of postal funerals for dead letters and a moon that speaks to a cloud we curse send your light into the universe...

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