Volume 3 Issue 3: Time Capsule: Adult
$28.00
Perfect bound
Digest︙ 5.25” x 8.25”
The Mobile Library provides a multi-digital exhibiting experience for artists and writers to showcase their work during the pandemic closures. Each publication is unique, pairing artists and writers together at different stages in their career to build a collaborative experience.
This year, Volume 3 will explore the theme of memory with Issue 3 seeking work that explores memories, moments, and experiences of being an adult. Themes include family, friendships, and parenthood; advice you would give to your younger self; physical or emotional experiences; or reflecting on generational experiences.
Accompanying this issue are two interviews; one from our podcast “A Guide to Art, Activism, & Culture,” and one from our Flat Files: Artist Interviews & Studio Visits.
SEP 18, 2023
About
Being an academic not paid enough for her troubles, Ana M. Fores Tamayo wanted, instead, to do something that mattered: work with asylum seekers. Ana advocates for marginalized refugee families from Mexico, Central America, and most recently, many other countries from which people flee. Working with asylum seekers is heart wrenching, yet satisfying. It is also quite humbling. Her labor has eased her own sense of displacement, being a child refugee, always trying to find home. In parallel, poetry is her escape: She has published in The Raving Press, Indolent Books, the Laurel Review, Shenandoah, and many other anthologies and journals, both in the US and internationally, online and in-print. Ana’s poetry in translation with its accompanying photography has been featured in art fairs and galleries as well. Ediciones Valparaiso in Spain published her book of poems, PEREGRINA, this past June 2022.
Website: https://www.refugeesupport.net
Instagram: @anamfores
Christopher Williams is a visual artist who is currently earning their Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Ceramics. They earned their BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and finished a two-year Post-Baccalaureate at the University of Arkansas. Christopher has spent time studying traditional fresco techniques and classical painting in Florence, Italy and spent time in residencies across the United States. They are a story-teller through colorful hand built ceramics, drawing, installation, performance, video and hand-drawn animation.
Instagram: @christopherl_w
Daniel Choe was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and now lives in Sacramento, California, where he is a data analyst for the State of California. In his free time, he enjoys reading, writing, and 'rasslin (professional wrestling, but only the noncorporate kind, aka professional wrestling snob).
Emily Carpintero (b. 1994) is a Latin-American artist born in Newark, New Jersey and based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2014 she has been blending painting, photography, illustration, and printmaking. Her subject matters include self-portaits, family photo albums, and natural, digital, or architectural landscapes. Working with a colorless palette, she embeds motifs within the materials: acrylics, ink, and modeling paste. Common themes explored through a melancholic lens include desolation, restlessness, and memory.
Website: www.emilycarp.com
Instagram: @emvshh
Francesca Willow is an artist, writer and climate justice activist based in Cornwall. Her work aims to take a holistic approach to climate justice, culture, and regenerative futures. At the same time, her activism focuses on campaigning against oil and gas expansion and the fossil fuel industry’s involvement in arts and culture. She believes in radical liberatory hope; with the understanding that the systems in the world today were built by people, and therefore we can create something better. Her creative practice is interested in ecology, place-making, and forms of connection between living beings. From intimate relationships, ephemeral ideas and expanding ideas of ecosystems - we are one organism and many, communal and unique. We are the biosphere and we must save ourselves.
Website: https://ethicalunicorn.com
Website: https://www.francescawillow.com
Instagram: @ethicalunicorn
Joris Soeding holds an M.A. in Teaching, Language Arts-Elementary from Northeastern Illinois University. His most recent collection of poetry is After Highland Park (Origami Poems Project, 2021). Soeding’s writing has appeared in publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, Poetry Pacific, Portage Magazine, and Tint Journal. Most recently, his essay was published in the anthology, Along the Shore: Strategies for Living with Grief (Orange Blossom Publishing, 2023). He is a 2021 and 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee and fifth/sixth grade Social Studies teacher in Chicago, where he resides with his wife, son, daughter, and cats.
Facebook: @Author-Joris-Soeding
Twitter: @JorisSoeding
LinkedIn: @jorissoeding
Kayleigh DiMaggio is an artist and musician from New Hampshire. Kayleigh took an interest in drawing and painting at a young age and quickly found a passion for the wider craft of visual and digital art. Physical and digital collage became the medium of choice because of the opportunity for abstract and impressionist ideas the medium encourages.
Their strong passion for music started with the guitar and has since gone on to learn how to play a number of other instruments, as well as how to mix, produce, and record original music. Kayleigh has been a radio host for over two years and has recently taken up DJing as a means to further learn ways to manipulate audio.
Since beginning college, Kayleigh has dabbled in the creative and technical processes of filmmaking and intends to improve their video editing skills and expand their portfolio of experimental short films. They also intend to improve their sewing, special effects make up, and overall costuming skills. Kayleigh is currently attending Champlain College in Vermont and is set to graduate with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2024.
Lee Eustace is a creative whose work centres on the themes of relationships, social constructs, and culture. Lee’s writings are featured in various literary journals and he is currently working on a novel length work in addition to a set of short stories and an exciting collection of poetry.
Lee is well respected by his peers and his international publication credits are evidence that his works have a varied and enduring appeal. Included in these works is a completed set of non-fiction works from the local community and an internationally focused documentary on Global GAA.
Lee’s primary publication successes have been the result of his emerging poetry collection in which he examines our journey from adolescence to adulthood. The motifs of selfhood, memory, relationships, love, and fate are central to this explorative work.
Website: https://linktr.ee/creativeleestorytelling
Instagram: @creativeleestorytelling
Peter is a queer psychotherapist, previously working in community mental health and HIV/AIDS, now in private practice in Portland and Los Angeles. He has lived through addiction, multiple bereavements and the transitions from youth to midlife and midlife to old age. He believes you can too.
Website: https://petercashorali.com/
R. Galvan is an artist based in Medford, MA. Their work explores the construction of the self within social and administrative systems. Using forms, grids, text, drawings, photos, and found objects, their work shows the impact of racial and queer identities within these systems. I seek to reveal how invisible rules and order compress individual experiences, especially for racialized bodies, and perpetuate violence and trauma caused by dominant cultural norms. I question the effectiveness of language in shaping such perceptions and strive to unmake the complexity of identity in a world that relies on categorization and conformity.
Galvan recently completed the Decolonizing Knowledge & Power Program with the Center of Study & Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues in Barcelona, Spain. They are a studio resident with the Boston Center for the Arts, an incubator for new creative projects.
Instagram: @rfgalv
Wictor Doarte is from São Paulo, and from an early age he began to express himself through drawing and painting. Over time, the pursuit of art became essential. Today, he is a Visual Artist who, in addition to being a photographer graduated from Universidade Cidade de São Paulo (UNICID-SP), is a self-taught illustrator and designer.
In 2020, he worked alongside French-Tunisian artist Jean Paul Ganem, on the project “Renda Guaianás”, where he was Director and Editor of the documentary of the same name. The documentary was shown in 2023 at Museu Catavento, in São Paulo Capital, through the event Cinema no Parque.
In July 2023, his illustration work was published in the European magazine Suboart Magazine, which focuses on giving visibility to artists from all over the world.
In August of the same year, his photographic work is exhibited at the art gallery Objectos do Olhar, in the collective exhibition entitled “Olhar da Rua”, which aims to bring the poetic look of several photographers on the street and its events.
Instagram: @doar.te