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Jerusalem Florists

By Nekoda Singer

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Nekoda Singer – “Aviv Flowers”
Nekoda Singer – “Lakhish Flowers”
Nekoda Singer – “German Colony Flowers”

– Nekoda Singer

Author’s Note: These acrylic paintings from Jerusalem Florists series deal with the merging positive and negative colours, as well as everyday life with classic art. I started by using for inspiration frames of colour negative films taken in downtown Jerusalem (instead of painting in the open air, which was very tenable considering our extremely hot climate and the sun that in summer kills any distinguishable colour). By adding to these nearly documentary scenes free quotations from the old masters’ still lives, I tried to create complex visions to trace the link between the real and the surreal, between colourless and colourful, between present-day and old, between cultivated and wild, and between daydream and nightmare.…

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Cover to Cover with . . . R. E Hengsterman

By Jordan Blum & R.E Hengsterman

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R. E Hengsterman is a Pushcart-nominated writer, film photographer, and flawed human who deconstructs the human experience through images and words. He writes under the Carolina blue sky. You can see more of his work here and find him on Twitter at @rehengsterman

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Jordan Blum speaks with Hengsterman about balancing writing, editing, and photography, wrestling with self-doubt, the impact of modern technology on human behavior, and Citizen Cope, among many other things.

 

R.E Hengsterman

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