October 2024 | visual art
Only Our Shadows Know
Bordnick Studio
Bordnick’s interest is to create meaningful works of art that all people and cultures can enjoy. As a photographer and sculptor, he has been able to share his professional experiences in ways that benefit both business and community projects. With over twenty years of experience, he has successfully designed, fabricated, and installed various projects. He is an industrial design/sculpture graduate of Pratt Institute in New York, where he has had his own professional design business and has been a design director for numerous companies and local government projects. They included a major children’s museum for the city of New York and the Board of Education.
October 2024 | visual art
Leda and the Swan
GJ Gillespie
GJ Gillespie is a collage artist living in a 1928 farmhouse overlooking Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, WA. A prolific artist with 21 awards to his name, his work has been exhibited in 65 shows and appeared in more than 160 publications. Beyond his studio practice, Gillespie channels his passion for art by running Leda Art Supply, a company specializing in premium sketchbooks. Whether conjuring vivid collage compositions or enabling other artists through exceptional tools, Gillespie remains dedicated to the transformative power of art.
October 2024 | poetry
Mesmerizing horizontal snow
on Halloween, a weather record
for Chicago accumulation–
Chicagoans are unpredictable, too,
when they observe Halloween,
putting on masks
when they sit in bars
dressed in orange and black,
sip Betteljuice Cocktails,
tout toy lasar guns like children
dressed as action heroes,
Hasbro Avenger Marvel Titans
with lightning bolts
across their chests,
strut in the costume competition
that doesn’t win the prize
in the school parade.
By Jan Ball
Jan has published 396 poems in U.S. and international journals like Nimrod and Slipstream, U.S. and Orbis, England, and Cordite, Australia. Finishing Line Press published her four chapbooks and first full-length poetry collection. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart as well as twice for Best of the Net.
