quiet places
there’s something about walls and ceilings
and their clearly delineated lines
are rooms put together
/ constructed
that way
to give us the illusion of order
providing a familiar
/ predictable
space
to come back to to
exist
in
after
spinning in the
maelstrom of life
?
clearly, they don’t satisfy every need
we’re always nailing things up
calendars to remind us of passing days
art to remind us of beauty
the forgetful or addicted mount their televisions
to remind them of the
madness alfresco
if bare walls mirrored life
they’d resemble cubist art
which would be good
museums are always quiet places.
Steven Louis Ray is a multidisciplinary artist working in traditional film and darkroom processes, in addition to writing and recording experimental music and writing poetry. He’s currently slogging his way to a creative writing certificate and studying printmaking at City College of San Francisco. More of his photography can be viewed at stevenlouisray.com
Junona Jonas is a student at City College enrolled in the Fine Arts Department. She has been painting and drawing for a number of years and have been able to develop as an artist working with the extraordinary teachers at City College. Her work is largely narrative, Whether using pastel or acrylic for work that is landscape or figurative, Jonas wants to engage the viewer by telling a visual story.
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