Joe Sorren’s Between the Wrinkles
Images Thomas Helm Images Thomas Helm

Joe Sorren’s Between the Wrinkles

Images

In the early 2000s, Joe Sorren emerged as an important figure in the eclectic and transversal artistic movement of Pop Surrealism, also known as Lowbrow art. These narrative paintings traverse the rooms of memory, unveiling in each work a hint of a story the artist holds closely within himself.

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Office Lens
Images Volodymyr Bilyk Images Volodymyr Bilyk

Office Lens

Images

These are abstract images partially inspired by visual distortions I sometimes experience while having a migraine. Except a bit more fleshed out. The other inspiration sources are deep ocean creatures and their otherworldly complexions.

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Spring 2024 Book Launch!
Future World(s), Poetry of Life, Society, Images, Transitions Mercurius Editors Future World(s), Poetry of Life, Society, Images, Transitions Mercurius Editors

Spring 2024 Book Launch!

We’re proud to present the next round of Mercurius books!

Mercurius’s Future World(s) is an anthology of essays that look beyond nihilistic neoliberalism.

Mercurius No. 2: Local Nature Devas is a selection of texts and images from the Poetry of Life, Society, Transitions, and Images sections of the website.

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No unifying structure
Images Linda Black Images Linda Black

No unifying structure

Images

As with the execution of an etching (drawing with a fine needle into a blackened wax ground), or with a poem (spontaneous first word/s, no need to understand), I begin my drawings on an impulse, not knowing or wanting to know the outcome, working spontaneously, attentive to detail - a process I have learnt to trust.

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Yi Won Surreal-Absurd Sampler
Surreal-Absurd Vik Shirley Surreal-Absurd Vik Shirley

Yi Won Surreal-Absurd Sampler

Surreal-Absurd

“A central feature of Yi Won’s work is how she sees the world through images rather than meaning. "This feature makes me want to make my poetic language imagery newer and stranger," Yi Won says…"The irony of the closest thing being the most unfamiliar seems to provide an unfamiliar and familiar image at the same time.”

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Chris Gutkind Surreal-Absurd
Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock

Chris Gutkind Surreal-Absurd

surreal-absurd

I feel my work is utterly real, in itself and what it refers to in myself or in the world outside myself, but to make it real I may use the unreal or strange or impossible, an old working truth of poetry and all art, that's always been one of its main practices, and a very effective one when done well, making us see and feel the world anew and more deeply than before, adding to the thickness and complexity of the real, and as many have said: art lies to tell the truth

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Anne-Laure Coxam Surreal-Absurd Sampler
Surreal-Absurd Vik Shirley Surreal-Absurd Vik Shirley

Anne-Laure Coxam Surreal-Absurd Sampler

Surreal-Absurd

“Love is surreal, surreal is love” - to divert John Lennon’s line (big words! what’s love, what’s surreal?). These poems (what’s a poem?) emerged from an accident, the accident of opening a territory and the accident of venturing into this new intimate territory where two bodies touching and two subconscious minds clinking against each other is full of dangers and an endless surprise.

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As-if or As-Is: A Cretan Encounter
Transitions Ivars Balkits Transitions Ivars Balkits

As-if or As-Is: A Cretan Encounter

Transitions

On a quest for the skull we enter Aghios Titos, sit on a back bench in the main chamber and survey the interior. In the center a wagon-wheel chandelier of filigreed olive wood, inset with foot-high stained-glass portraits of saints, topped by as-yet unlit (electric) candles.

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Saw My Soul on the Side of the Road
Transitions Simran Kaur Johal Transitions Simran Kaur Johal

Saw My Soul on the Side of the Road

Transitions

I feel the constant business of life chip away at any wonder and curiosity in a concept like the soul. Connecting to spiritual ideas feels close to impossible in the scheduled days. The desire to progress in a world that doesn’t value something like the soul ends up meaning less priority to spirituality.

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