refrain Detroit, lauded as a truly American art form, birthed from the underbelly of resistance and Black joy, broke its back somewhere along the way, or
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Michelle Saffran, originally from Detroit Michigan has lived in Vermont for most of her adult life. Drawing upon the landscape as metaphor, Saffran's home in
Karen Fitzgerald was born and raised on a dairy farm in the Midwest. It is this early, close relationship with the natural world that informs
The following interview is between Dr. Natalie Deam, visual arts editor for Flyway, and Dr. Kamil Ahsan, managing editor of the South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG): A
I gave birth in a fluorescent-lit white OR at midnight. A blue surgical drape rose like a tidal wave over my head, swallowing behind it my
There is a reservoir here, where they live now, whose kidney-shaped lobe is bifurcated by a two-lane causeway. There is a gravel lot where they park
They were born in an industrial zone, former bog-land, where the sand is stained red from all the iron in the air. Sulfuric stench on the
Graffiti on the defunct valve house says FREE THE RIVER. But the river’s not a river; it’s a creek. And water is good at getting free
They use a metal spatula to flay a palm-sized swatch of moss from a stump in the backyard. They bring it into the shower. When the
Just them and the doe and a wrecked two-door truck, the metal and her body braided. They are digging bloody honey-suckle at a forest-side— where the