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| AIMA |
| Aima's works pursue sensual intensities through color and form. Their paintings playfully indulge their medium's inherent voyeurism - in other words, painters' strange fixation on naked bodies. With flesh and skin and textures, Aima aims to make visible the kernel of poetry vibrating underneath every passing moment, like listening to the heartbeat of a great warm beast. @aimafan_ |
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AIREY |
Most of my work centers around the intersetion of the human form, emotions, and femininity. I like what I make to have a bold, graphic look that is both aesthetic and just a touch unsettling :) @airey_contrary |
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ALEX ENGELHARDT |
| My friend Ben and I wanted to collaborate on a piece exploring double/triple exposure in photos and written word inspired by the photos. I had a great time being a model and witnessing Ben create these beautiful flowing photographs and was inspired to write Fiber Aperture. In the creative process we talked about how sometimes dreams feel like you are witnessing that reality through a sheet of see through fabric blowing in the breeze. @_alex.engel_ |
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AMANDA ZHU |
| Amanda Zhu (they/them) is a Queer, Chinese-American environmentalist and artist who believes in the protection of people and the planet through an intersectional and decolonial lens. Their work explores common themes in humanity and ecology, including identity, memory, and land. You can find them reading, visiting museums, rewatching a comfort film, connecting with nature, or playing a video game in their free time. @schmoond amndazhu.com |
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AME MORRISON |
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The material and emotional labor that goes into sustaining community is the gravitational center of my work. From this core I create photos, experimental films and installations that invite the audience into the intimacy I encounter with others. These images prioritize connection over detached observation. @aj.morrison aj-morrison.com |
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ANDREW DOLL |
| Andrew Doll is a queer poet living in Portland, Oregon, and working within an American surrealist tradition. Other poems can be found in The Buckman Journal. When not writing, he can be found scavenging thrift stores and other scrap heaps in the Pacific Northwest, rescuing the discarded from their demise. @a_rhi_zhome www.andrewdoll.net |
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ANNA VOLK |
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Inspired by the design process @slightginge annavolk.com |
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ANTHI |
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my art has been described as whimsical, reverent, and irreverent. as a research historian, printmaker, and weaver, my main job is tying lose ends. frida khalo said "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality" — im compelled to make art by the images themselves. i'm living their dreams. plus, the best storytelling comes from being captivated, from being irresistably drawn to a source … @ansklaven |
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ANYA |
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My practice is rooted in finding the beauty in not so pretty things such as gore, imperfections in faces, and finding layered meanings in the surface of everyday things. I approach art making as a language that allows me to translate the feelings and motions I have while looking at the world. Working primarily with traditional artwork such as ink drawings and oil paintings. But as of right now I have fallen in love with mixing digital and traditional into my art style. https://ko-fi.com/theanyastar |
| ASHE KUSAGAYA |
| My poetry leans more musical, confessional, and a touch surreal. This particular piece centers around nostalgia, which always has this dreamy quality for me. My past is hazy and memories come to me suddenly and dissipate just as quickly, often leaving me with this lingering, almost bittersweet feeling. I’m there, once again, then I’m here—the product of my past and dreams. @mkashe_ ashemk.weebly.com |
| ASPEN HANSEN |
| Aspen Hansen is a poet living in Portland, Oregon. |
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AYA DOSLU |
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Aya Doslu is a tattooer and multimedia artist who loves finding the absurdity in life. Aya loves to explore and create with different mediums, currently favoring drawing and experimental photography like scanography. @absurdaya absurdaya.com |
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BEN |
I love every animal and plant in the world @cats.snakes |
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BENNY DICKMEYER |
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I was drawn to double exposure film photography for this prompt because of the inherent dreamy nature that these types of photos evoke. Layered photos stitch together separate realities into one experience, the way our minds weave our memories while we rest. Like a dream, the longer you look at each photo, the more you may find from each of its layers. @otherbenny |
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BRYCE FRIMMING |
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Auto Racing as Existential Thought @Bryce_bhf |
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CARSON JUDE |
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This is a map showing a fragment of land from my dreams that I frequently revisit. When I dream it’s always in pre existing places I’ve dreamt of before. When I dream of a new location it’s as if a new part of the map is “unlocked” and I can permanently revisit it. I’ve only met a few other people who dream this way. Digital collage of vintage postcards from my collection. @havingjustareallyawesometime |
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CHRIS KOELLING |
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I’m Chris and I’m an illustrator in Portland, OR. I love to tell stories through bright colors and playful line work. Aside from commercial work, I love creating print media, including zines and risograph prints. I also enjoy dogs, reading, coffee, and vegan food. @chris_koelling Chriskoelling.com |
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CLARA WYNNE |
| "HOTHEAD" 7-color needlepoint on plastic canvas @Clara_Winnie_ |
| DEVON MARTINEZ |
Devon Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist in Portland, OR who experiments with a wide range of materials in the service of chaotic and symbolic imagery. She employs digital and physical processes like sculpture, printmaking, and collage to merge contemporary and traditional elements. Her art relates to themes of the domestic, femininity, memory, her dreams, and nature. By inserting forms taken from mundane settings into dreamlike scenes, she reflects on both our inner and collective worlds. @sleepygirl.art www.sleepygirl.art |
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ELENA ENDER |
Elena Ender is a West Coast writer and editor. She spends her time writing her silly little stories, listening to the latest wave of riot grrrl music, and driving around the streets of Portland, OR. Her debut chapbook “Still Alive, I’m Afraid.” is available now thanks to Bullshit Lit. You can find her online as: @elena_ender. |
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ELI STAATS |
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Eli Staats films their friends, listens to birds, eats things they find in the forest, and writes songs about all of the above. @frogginnoggin |
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ELIAS LOPEZ |
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@illustrated_silence |
| ELINOR SERUMGARD |
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Dreams come in and out slow like the strum of an acoustic guitar, fuzzy like the way film photography looks. Everytime it snows, I feel a bit closer to the dream world. I want to keep myself there and make art that lives there @elinorserumgard www.elinorserumgard.com |
| EMILY MOON |
| Emily Moon (she/her) is a queer transgender spore being. She remembers her forest roots and seeks mycelial connections. Poetry is part of the epigenetics she inherits from her grandmother. In the mundane world, she tunes ultrasound machines that produce pictures of babies and hearts. She is author of the collection "It’s Just You & Me, Miss Moon," editor at First Matter Press, and host for Eastside Poetry Workshop. @emilymoonpoet linktr.ee/EmilyMoonPoet |
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ERYN |
| grotesque is in the eyes of the beholder of such atrocities!!! I love that shit @eryryn |
| EVAN TAYLOR |
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Evan has always enjoyed non-representational art, pre historical art, Minoan art, and all styles of French Modern. These physical mediums along with the sweet, immaculate, divine, sculptural, etc. rhythms of Country music greatly impact his art. His favorite writers are T.S. Elliot, David Berman, Erica Jong, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, and Bob Dylan. Creator of the zine General Admission, featured works in Punch Gallery, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Concourse Coffee, Laundry Soccer Bowl. @fucktubaimevansweatshirt |
| FAITH ASHLEY OLSON |
@faithashleyolson |
| JACK VAN HECKE |
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Jack Van Hecke writes across all genres. Some of it is good, a lot of it is bad. But that is subjective, so formulate your own opinion about Jack's writing. @vackjanhecke jackvanhecketimes.com |
| JAINA CIPRIANO |
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When I was small, the TV was my only friend. I studied its glow for secrets of life, love, and possibility. Media shapes our dreams and fears, confining or empowering us. This project reclaims that power: each frame a deliberate act of self-reinvention, part memory, part vision. I am no longer just an audience member, I am the director of my own fearless, playful narrative. @jainastudio jainaphoto.com |
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JOAN PACHECO |
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Joan Pacheco is a burgeoning southwest poet recently relocated to Portland, OR. Her work has previously been published in the Fall 2024 issue for Voicemail Poems and Thalweg: Southwestern Deserts. She is a secret agent co-organizer for Graft Union Reading Series. @nepobabyeater |
| JULIA TRUJILLO |
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Julia Trujillo is a poet from the Colorado Foothills living in Portland, Oregon. She is a harvester of collage materials and will accept any of your unwanted scraps, junk mail, picture books, etc. @julia.soft.animal |
| KAT BUCKLEY |
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As an artist I’m fascinated by the intersection of digital and physical, online and offline. So much of my work is created digitally but I crave seeing it in the real world. Or incorporating the real world into my digital practice. With bombastic colors and bold choices I hope to create art that is never dull, and casts a mirror ball reflection of how I experience the world. I hope it brings you joy and a small bit of whimsy. May it brighten your day however dark it may be. @kbuckleygraphics kbuckleygraphics.com |
| KYRA BRIGGS |
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My artwork draws stylistic inspiration from the surrealism movement while incorporating my personal and political convictions into a cohesive message. @kyridiot |
| LAURA SWINGEN |
| Laura Swingen is a Portland Based painter. Swingen’s work uses surrealism and layering to convey personal narratives. www.swingen.net |
| LAUREN VOIGT |
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Lauren Voigt is a mixed media artist from Texas currently living and working in Portland, OR. Her current work centers around girlhood adolescence, relationships, and memories through the exploration of specific images, objects, and tactile obsessions of her youth. The manipulation of these memories serves to create a space that honors the oft-dismissed wonder, play, and imagination inherent in girlhood. @laurenmvoigt laurenvoigt.art |
| LLOYD DAYLIGHT |
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What do sailors dream about? Rowing their beautiful red boat. What else? @lloyddaylight |
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LOPEA |
Looking for things that feel true long enough to write down. @lopea_ |
| LUKAS QUINN |
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Lukas Quinn is just a silly little gay from Portland, OR. For most of his life, Lukas has held onto the Dream that one day he won't be so little or so silly, and that people might actually take him seriously. But that’s ridiculous, right? Instead, he writes his silly little poetry, plays his silly little crosswords, and posts his silly little cries for help on Instagram: @ichaotiqa lukasquinn.com |
| LYZ ROWE |
@pastalldreaming |
| M. HENDERSON |
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Fumbling little hands holding my grandma’s clunky camera. It was long and flat, a shade of tan maybe, with an orange button, attached to a black string for your wrist, or was the string orange too? I hear something in the next room and hurry to put the camera back in its place, snagging my fingertip in the zipper. Is this a dream, or a memory? In an attempt to reveal some lost piece of the story, I manipulate the instant film, dissecting the memory itself, hoping to pull out something new. @hellomagnoliaprintshop www.hellomagnoliaprintshop.com |
| MADD KRUIDENIER |
| Story-driven illustrator working out of Portland, OR. Wil E Coyote supporter. @maddkroillo maddkroillustration.com |
| MADDIE STEIN |
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Things I’ve dreamt about: Drake, teeth, 7-11, mini coopers, submitting to Lurch on time, art. & that’s what life’s all about @Msteinart |
| MAGDA BEAL |
I like to create fantastical worlds and place my subjects within them, encouraging them to explore the world I contruct and create their own fantasies and narratives. I capture their authentic and imaginative joy as I aim to explore the feminine gaze, highlighting the magic of female friendship and connection in my photographs.
| @obscuredbiclouds |
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MARZ GEBHARDT |
| Marz Gebhardt (she/they) is a 24 year old writer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in storytelling across various mediums. As a Saskatchewan resident, they explore narrative through poetry, prose, film, and painting while showcasing the fantastical potential of western Canada. @marzipan2267 AND @martian.mail |
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MAX SERGIENKO Max Sergienko is a writer, songwriter, guitarist, and sometimes photographer living and working in Portland, Oregon. @maxittarius https://substack.com/@max sergienko |
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MAXWELL KLINE |
| Maxwell Kline is an interdisciplinary artist who started growing in Boise, ID, and continues to grow in Portland, OR. Citation 3 also lives in Bombay Gin Literary Journal Volume #49: in the strangler fig. @eekmaxwell www.maxie.rodeo |
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MEGAN CHIN |
| small is all is the current body of work by artist Megan Chin grounded in the principle “small is good, small is all. (The large is a reflection of the small.)” from adrienne maree brown’s book Emergent Strategy. Through experimentation with materials and process, the work highlights how nature’s small wonders reveal dynamic systems that sustain life. In doing so, small is all invites viewers to reconsider scale, value, and the potential for transformation. @meganchinart https://meganchinart.com |
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MEGAN PASPALIS |
| feel free to enter dreamland and listen in order or at random @meganpaspalis |
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MAGDA BEAL |
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I like to create fantastical worlds and place my subjects within them, encouraging them to explore the world I construct and create their own fantasies and narratives. I capture their authentic and imaginative joy as I aim to explore the feminine gaze, highlighting the magic of female friendship and connection in my photographs. @obscuredbiclouds obscuredbiclouds.notion.site/obscuredbiclouds |
| MARZ GEBHARDT |
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Marz Gebhardt (she/they) is a 24 year old writer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in storytelling across various mediums. As a Saskatchewan resident, they explore narrative through poetry, prose, film, and painting while showcasing the fantastical potential of western Canada. @marzipan2267 AND @martian.mail |
| MAX SERGIENKO |
| Max Sergienko is a writer, songwriter, guitarist, and sometimes photographer living and working in Portland Oregon. @maxittarius https://substack.com/@maxsergienko |
| MAXWELL KLINE |
| Maxwell Kline is an interdisciplinary artist who started growing in Boise, ID, and continues to grow in Portland, OR. Citation 3 also lives in Bombay Gin Literary Journal Volume #49: in the strangler fig. @eekmaxwell www.maxie.rodeo |
| MEGAN CHIN |
| small is all is the current body of work by artist Megan Chin grounded in the principle “small is good, small is all. (The large is a reflection of the small.)” from adrienne maree brown’s book Emergent Strategy. Through experimentation with materials and process, the work highlights how nature’s small wonders reveal dynamic systems that sustain life. In doing so, small is all invites viewers to reconsider scale, value, and the potential for transformation. @meganchinart https://meganchinart.com |
| MEGAN PASPALIS |
| feel free to enter dreamland and listen in order or at random @meganpaspalis |
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MEI LOVE |
| Mei is a Bengali, queer, enby/trans, autistic romantic revolutionary with roots in abolition. They reside in the intersections of identity, queerness and ancestral memory. Their work centers around themes of relational repair, transformative justice and revolutionary love. As a visionary, they believe in the power of dreaming as a possibility of collective change through heart-centered creative collaboration. @scentdheart www.alovelikethis.co.in |
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MR CHRIS |
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@chrisskenu itschrishuang.com |
| NADIA NIVA |
| Nadia Niva is a writer and childcare worker in Portland, OR. She hosts a biweekly radio show called nightbus/daydream on Freeform Portland. @earthwormindisguise |
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NASTA MARTYN |
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@nasta.martyn33 |
| NETRA |
| netra blends surrealism with satire, using humor as a lens to explore the absurdity of everyday life. She aims to create work that’s funny and just weird enough to make you look twice. @iterumtenta on insta |
| REECE |
| I drew inspiration from two dreams I had as a child. In one I fell through a tree stump into a pile of lady bugs. The other one involved falling through the street I grew up on into a spiderweb with a sword at the center. Both seem to be influenced by real world experiences. Construction on the road and having a giant stuffed animal ladybug. @FilthyConcrete |
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RIVER MALACHITE |
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This poem is based off a dream I had in 2023 about a friend I didn't speak to for a long time. We recently began speaking again. The poem describes the dream exactly as it happened. @metaphorsomething |
| ROSINA LAW-BRANEY |
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My work is feminist, silly and a lil bit sinful. I like fun at the ridiculous rules we as women are expected to follow. I’m drawn to the messy and complicated side of womanhood. @unadulterated.rosie |
| S.GORELICK |
| Portland based artist, Stephen Gorelick explores a variety of unconventional techniques to create his work. His pieces replicate the psychedelic metaphysical while highlighting the clash between natural organization and urban decay. Stephen continues to change the forms through which he expresses himself with the purpose of evoking a sense of curiosity. By focusing intently on the details of every piece, he seeks to ensure there is an authentic transfer of emotion to his audience. @SensoryOutput |
| SCOUT ANNES |
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Scout Annes is a dyke writer living and loving in Portland. they like bodies of water, gray cats, and autofiction. @5foot6inches |
| SEQUOIA WOODS |
| My work investigates the surreal tension between beauty and unease, using animal forms as vessels for emotional and psychological states. These paintings depict hybrid creatures poised in dreamlike spaces where vulnerability and ferocity coexist. Each composition reflects a moment suspended between control and collapse. Through saturated colors and fluid shapes, I aim to evoke the uncanny, a sense that something familiar. @seq.woods https://www.sequoia-woods.com |
| SHIFTY GNOME |
| neither here nor there, a question mark wearing shoes @emmawisegnome |
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SOREN IVERSON |
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Nameless, faceless characters traverse across an arid plain. They sometimes come up with ideas, and then have to stop and take a rest. Dreaming is hard work! @soreboar sorenciverson.com |
| SPICYIVY |
| SpicyIvy is a love letter to the inner voice we all have <3 @spicyivy__ Spicyivy.biz |
| TABER KREMER |
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Dreams aren't usually a choice, but I often find myself at crossroads, and deeper and deeper staircases. How do you know when to turn around and climb up? @tabersaccount taberkremer.com |
| TAYLOR ELISE COLIMORE |
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Taylor Elise Colimore (she/her) is an emerging multimedia artist, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently living in Richmond, Virginia. Her visual art practice consists of both digital and analog art making techniques, often creating work with second hand craft and/or fiber based materials and enhancing them through digital techniques such as video, animation, and electronic hardware. This practice enables experimentation and intuition as a part of her art making process. @taylorcolimore https://taylorcolimore.com/ |
| TECH FLEECE ISLAND |
| We dreamt of an island and we couldnt sleep so we contributed to this zine.. to be seen and to be heard these words were sent to us from a little bird, heres a calendar so you can mark your hours, how much you slept, how much you wept, and how many hours you kept. @nate._galvan @jeremy_____jones nathangalvan.com |
| TURNER HOUSE |
| My submission features a balaclava crocheted specifically for this issue’s Dream prompt. The piece is comprised of various yarns, mostly wool blends with acrylic accents, and was made with a 6mm crochet hook. For the photos documenting my work I wanted to channel my dream day: playing cricket with my friends on a sunny day at Laurelhurst Park, sporting the weird thing I made and my favorite soccer team’s jersey. Special thanks to Griffin Reilly and Lopea for helping to bring that vision to life. @turner.h0use |
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VALLEY |
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| ZOE SWIMS + ZACK BAUER |
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As a child, I often found myself running or hiding from monsters in my dreams. In these photos, you’ll meet a few familiar faces from my nightmares: the old woman and the mummy. I got to be on both sides of fear in these images, exploring the relationship between the tormentor and the tormented. I like to make things that come from deep feeling. I like to get freaky in parking garages. Photography by Zack Bauer. Modeling, concept, edits by Zoe Swims. @zodanille Marsfm.band |