Visual Art
Hadley Crow
Dear Friend
When House Plants Tell Time
Gaza City/HOW TO LIFT A STAIN
Gaza City / HOW TO LIFT A STAIN, a digital collage on paper, blends images from well-known areas and monuments in Gaza City that have been destroyed by Israeli forces since October 7th, 2023. The intricately incorporated buildings, which include The Great Omari Mosque, the Sayed al-Hashim Mosque, Qasr al-Basha and a few well-known residential streets, are meant to be seamless, united and powerful—a means to reimagine and rebuild the sacred spaces denied to a group of people who have and continue to face devastating loss and violence. The bursts of color throughout are stained glass that can be found in the Al-Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem, an Islamic holy site that remains inaccessible to the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian population. These slivers of vibrancy are a reminder of faith and a reclamation of what has been destroyed, withheld, stolen. Here, memory and hope construct a new world outside of, despite and beyond occupation and destruction in the belief that such a reality will come to fruition.
Crococoa
Hadley Crow is a multimedia artist and writer based in New York City interested in investigating the history, politic, and global implications of aesthetic theory. Employing a mix of ink, collage and found materials, Hadley’s work is concerned with the breaking of form as a subversive expression of imagination, often relying on elements of abstraction, deconstruction and surrealism. Hadley earned a BA in Global Liberal Studies from NYU in 2022 and recently completed her Master’s in Art and Public Policy from NYU Tisch.
Bill Wolak
The Moan That Draws You Closer
Collage
Bill Wolak has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, Harbinger Asylum, Baldhip Magazine, and Barfly Poetry Magazine.