Ty’Sean Judd, poet, educator, and agent for positive change
Aji readers, it is our pleasure to introduce you to Ty’Sean Judd, poet, educator, and agent for positive change through his platform Solid Initiative at solidinitiative.org.
We are proud to be publishing a feature interview of Judd in our fall 2021 issue, which should come out in early November. You will learn more about him, his writing, and Solid Initiative then.
Until then, enjoy our latest blog post featuring some of Ty'Sean's work.
We are proud to be publishing a feature interview of Judd in our fall 2021 issue, which should come out in early November. You will learn more about him, his writing, and Solid Initiative then.
Until then, enjoy our latest blog post featuring some of Ty'Sean's work.
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Our spring 2021 issue is a mosaic of perspectives."The voices in this issue are more diverse than perhaps ever before. As artists and poets and writers, it makes little sense for us to enclose ourselves into solipsistic sameness, where the relevance and meaning of our work would surely wither. Instead, it seems more important than ever to be inclusive in an authentic way, to share in our pages voices and perspectives that might be otherwise unheard, and to encourage and support all of those who have taken up the pen or the paintbrush or the camera toward self-expression, wherever they may be on their journeys.. "
-Erin O’Neill Armendarez, Editor in Chief At Aji, you can read for free by going to the PDF version (give it a minute to load, it's a big file!) or you can order a print copy to keep forever.
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Luminous Landscapes with Kathleen Frank
"There is a bold serenity in the flow of repetition. I think patterns help in the seeing of a painting. The eye is carried with it and may be led around a painting by it. Like being in the ocean waves, you can be transported along until one breaks on the surface and you have found something special." - Kathleen Frank Read the full interview in our Spring 2021 issue.
Photographer Spotlight on Jeff Corwin
"The majority of my images of the American West are typically unrecognizable as a specific location. Th ere are hints to locations, but, for instance, much of what I have photographed in Washington could have been shot in Kansas. Driving through Paradise Valley in Montana, I tend to pass by the postcard shots of the mountain ranges on all four sides. I certainly marvel at the vistas and wonder of it all, but I fi nd myself stopping for something else.
The scenes I choose to photograph, what I gravitate towards, are often bleak, lonely and isolated vistas. They speak to me; it is what I see because it is what I feel. I viscerally react. For me, trust is an extremely important aspect of what I do. I learned long ago to trust my vision and not second guess things like content. My reactions corroborate what I always felt was one definition of photography - a recognition of what personally and immediately
resonates, defined by experience, spirit and instinct. So it is not the actual location of the photograph that is significant, but more the imaginative correlations with expansive, yet subtle, feelings and ideas." - Jeff Corwin Read the full interview in our Spring 2021 issue.
The scenes I choose to photograph, what I gravitate towards, are often bleak, lonely and isolated vistas. They speak to me; it is what I see because it is what I feel. I viscerally react. For me, trust is an extremely important aspect of what I do. I learned long ago to trust my vision and not second guess things like content. My reactions corroborate what I always felt was one definition of photography - a recognition of what personally and immediately
resonates, defined by experience, spirit and instinct. So it is not the actual location of the photograph that is significant, but more the imaginative correlations with expansive, yet subtle, feelings and ideas." - Jeff Corwin Read the full interview in our Spring 2021 issue.
