Random
Sophie W designs and creates works of art in the field of Oil Painting and the Contemporary Arts. She discovered her interest in combining painting skills with computer items in 1990s during her master study. Over the past 30 years, she has been following the development of technologies and exploring the random abstract compositions that emerge from ordinary objects and experiences through computer and other rudimentary technologies that she adapts to construct new aesthetic forms in response to new stimuli. Technology has mediated the way we perceive reality in a superinvisible and nuanced way. By stepping out of our habitual, almost machine-like behavior, to explore how we interface with reality after that, and finally find common ground between each other, the work intends to uncover our blind spots and retrain our perception, and consequently, give different perspectives to think how we could be doing differently.
Everyday Iridescence
by William Doreski
The everyday iridescence counsels me to curb my tongue and avoid casual description. Most deadly are conversations shaped like expensive Cuban cigars. I stalk the long straight urban streets with clenched fists and a silence that if opportunity arose I’d smear like honey on the flanks of a lover I hadn’t met before. Neither friend nor foe appears to fill this role, so I duck into a doughnut shop I’ve haunted for sixty years, its facade unaltered, its stools as creaky as when they were first installed. The iridescence never trails me into this yellow-lit space where retired detectives rehash cases and drunks slowly sober up on coffee blacker than the Nile. The big windows, cleaned monthly, admit only innocent daylight, filtering out ghosts that otherwise would crowd out the living and drink all the coffee, leaving only the faintest trace of scum.
Author's Bio
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry isCloud Mountain(2024). He has published three critical studies, includingRobert Lowell’s Shifting Colors.His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.