LAUREN E. SIMONUTTI

"Mad Eyes"

"Over three and one half years I have spent alone amidst these 8 rooms, 7 mirrors, 6 clocks, 2 minds and 199 panes of glass. And this is what I saw here. This is what I learned...."

"I began to break time down.

Smaller and smaller parcels are easier to digest, easier to recognize, easier to bear.

This would be the math:

4 birthdays

3 + 1/2 years

42 months

1307 days (taking into account the leap year)

1,882,080 minutes

112,924,800 seconds..."

"I figure it could go one of two ways- I will either capture my ascension from madness to as much a level of sanity for which one of my composition could hope, or I will leave a document of it all, in the case that I should lose."

See more of Lauren E. Simonutti's work here.

GREGORY BARTLETT

From the series Darling if You Only Knew

"Of all the places that I experience in my day to day, many are beyond a place where one can physically venture to. It is through my daily routines and practices that these environments have materialized and come into being, literally and conceptually. They were created as a means to bridge a gap, to tell a bit about myself; where I travel to at times, sprite-like and fanciful in nature. Darling if you only knew all the things that float through my mind,

[so many] sweet sweet fantasies."

See more of Gregory Bartlett's work here

SHAYNA LEAH

"In my dreams he lurks: on open roads, at the water hole, the barber shop, the ice cream stand, in the gardens. He exists in the shadows, behind open doors, in the tall grass, a driver passing by. I cannot make out his face, always obscured. If only I could make out his face, I might begin to shake him from my mind..."

Contact Shayna Leah at shaynaleah@hotmail.com.

ANGEL CHIRIBOGA

"Estirpe" from the |eks| series

I am interested in exploring one of the primary inhibitors to my sleep: cancer. Four years ago, my father was diagnosed with cancer. The fact that I am both far away from home, and that cancer is a synonymous with having an expiration date, has made my head spin day and night.

Using x-ray images, Chiriboga explores the ubiquity of cancer by making the “'invisible visible... [to] express the continuous presence of the past contained within us'” as David Maisel wrote.

See more of Angel Chiriboga's work here.

VIOLA BOOTH

Viola Booth is a multitalented San Francisco artist, developing works as a videographer, photographer, painter, musician, and crime scene investigator, among other things.

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MICHAL GIEDROJC

"Fly" from The Dream series.

Giedrojc's subject exists in discomfort and alienation.

The artist explains that each "person is isolated from reality with the imaginary world around [her]," thus posing the question: whose dream are we really glimpsing and is it a dream at all?

See more of Michal Giedrojc's work here.

COREY MICHAEL SMITHSON

"Cone"

Smithson is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist whose work explores "various dimensions of queerness, identity, gender, eroticism, self-expression, biology, history, beauty, shock, fear, and love."

See more of Corey Michael Smithson's work here.

RANDI BEREZ

Berez's images are rife with exuberance and glee expressive of the night's comedic obscurity.

See more of Randi Berez's work here.

SARAH SMALL

"Hanging Redhead", from the series Delirium Constructions.

Small's series explores "disassociated themes and characters brought together into the same space...[to] examine the social and graphic contrasts of youth and experience, hysteria and discipline, tragedy and hilarity, and sexuality and desexualization."

See more of Sarah Small's work here.

JUSTIN STGERMAIN

Adapting to our changing landscapes is a fear that we have, and as a population, must face. Justin StGermain's images represent the destruction that climate change has on our planet and the overwhelming necessity for us to reframe our view of the world using light to isolate and identify our transforming surroundings. Through long exposures, StGermain erases context, modifies the landscape, and emphasizes the demand for humans to critically modify their own perception of and relationship with the land.

See more of Justin StGermain's work here.

Descry Magazine Issue No. 2, Call for Submissions

Submissions Open, Issue 2,

with guest editor Donald Graham Hershey

CATALOGUE OF THE NIGHT

Nighttime changes things; alters the landscape; night is bare, stripped down to nothing. Where solitude frightens us, and shadows dance on walls. Fingertips scrape skin, residue sneaks from beneath the nails; the night is a warm body by your side and the stain of a stranger’s scent. Disturbed and uncertain, night is a lonesome rampage. Mysteries unfold in the night; where we take a ride on a midnight train; where direction exists inside objects and pulses, and details, like the cold wind cutting through your hair and a distant rabbit’s howl, are all we have.

In darkness, you are fooled, and the world turns askew, slight at first. Creatures slink in, brutish and savage; sleep is stolen away. Night is the peephole to crawl into other worlds, tangible and alive. Fantastical places where order is unknown, where tall hats crawl from circus tents, elephants tiptoe across treetops, and girls with fins walk on water and where love, despite it all, manages to find you.

In the night there lurks a masquerade, waits a solace, finds a fantasy, haunts a nightmare.

Issue 2 will connect the nighttime narratives from across town and from oceans away. An inspired catalogue of what keeps us from our dreams, what lingers in our darkest shadows, and what fastens us to our pillow each night. Issue 2 is meant to collectively expose the most intimate vulnerabilities, illusions, hallucinations, dreams, fantasies, and memories that are stored in our midnight hours.

DEADLINE- JULY 30, 2010

www.descrymagazine.com for complete guidelines.

Descry, Issue No.1 Launch and Benefit

Join us for the celebration and festivities!

March 27th, 7-11pm at Queen's Nails Projects, 3191 Mission Street, San Francisco

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Descry: 64 full color pages, featuring 31 emerging artists

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Descry Magazine Issue No. 1 To Be Released March 2010

Stay tuned here and at our website www.descrymagazine.com

for more info on subscriptions, magazine release reception, and more.

In the meantime, check out the following submissions:

JESSE BURKE

CHRIS RAIN

RANDI BEREZ

DONALD GRAHAM HERSHEY

Donald Graham Hershey loves "the mystery, the unknown, the supernatural, the ghosts."

His collection of works, "surreal moving pictures and flat images," determines a narrative that is " a kind of 'choose your own adventure' story." Donald Graham Hershey has "no explanation to guide those who witness [his] work."

See more of Donald Graham Hershey's work here.

AUBREY RHODES

"The Enemy Within"

Years ago, Aubrey Rhodes "walked away from academia and the literary arts and began painting full-time."

She declares:

"On canvas I could employ symbolism and innuendo much more immediately and with more freedom than I could on a page restricted to 26 letters, black and white, and the rules of grammar."

See more of Aubrey Rhodes' work here.

RYTIS GERVICKAS

Rytis Gervickas believes that a scene or subject might only become meaningful the moment it is captured as a photograph.

Gervickas states that the "things we create, whether consciously or not, are results of our personality and destiny."

See more of Rytis Gervickas' work here.

MARY ANN REILLY

Photography allows Mary Ann Reilly

"the occasion to recast the familiar in new cloth, resituate understanding, and unsettle certainties."

See more of Mary Ann Reilly's work here.