Recent work of Philip Kobylarz appears or will appear in Connecticut Review, Scrivener (Montréal), Pleiades, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review and has appeared in Best American Poetry 1997. His book, rues, was published by Bluelight Press of San Francisco.
Diana Y. Paul loves printmaking, because she feels that there are no mistakes in printmaking. One of her favorite prints is her first copper etching -an image of weeds- that had been dipped into rather gritty, sludge-like acid. When she pulled the copper out of the acid, there was a little pea-sized blob on the copper. She was upset that her etching had been ruined. But when she rinsed off the acid, the blob had washed away, revealing a beautiful, perfectly etched miniature bug -wings and all- delicately hanging upside down on a tiny branch. That experience epitomizes printmaking for her: both in art and in life, the unexpected can be a beautiful surprise. Her focus is on a Japanese aesthetic combined with a mixed media approach to the image, usually an organic one, with an element of surprise or the unexpected thrown in. Diana has exhibited in museums and galleries in California, Hawaii, and Japan and has had her art published in major art and literary journals. Please visit www.unhealedwound.com to view more of Diana's art.