If you’ve never commissioned art before, you might be surprised to realize that, traditionally, it involves both artist and client to sign a contract (either physically or digitally). This can seem a little intimidating initially, but don’t let it scare you off! It’s common practice, and simply there to protect both parties against worst-case scenarios.
I’m finally done with my first art project of the new year. I like it, though I’m never fully satisfied with my work. It was a good way to start the year, working hard on a project I wanted to be proud of while reflecting on 2018, and thinking about what I wanted 2019 to […]
A Day, A Night, A Week, A Month By Elise Huther It is very blue here; blue paintings on blue walls, blue cushions on the chairs, cheap, blue-flecked carpet. Even the young man next to me is wearing a blue t-shirt. He is fat and his hair is oily. He looks at me too […]
I don’t know how I ended up here. I can recount the events just fine, unfortunately. But I don’t know why I am the way I am; why I didn’t do things differently so that it didn’t have to be this way. But it does, it really does; I wish I could explain why. We […]
I am sixteen, and they tell me I’m obsessed. All I want is to be dust-small, paper thin. I’m not and yet my edges still seem to cut people. My mother cries sometimes. I am sixteen I envy the mushrooms in the yard; they thrive on the leftovers of life. I try to eat the […]
THE MUSHROOM LIFE By Elise Huther The morning was naked and shivered with the cold of itself, in the same way it made Margaret shiver as she dressed and forgot which colors match. Blue isn’t like black or white, she thought. It isn’t a color that they say matches everything. But then they say […]
I dabble (very lightly) in songwriting, and this is one I wrote a few years ago about living with chronic illness. Just the Facts, Simply Stated I’ve been forgetting to pray. Lately I guess there’s not much left to say. I’m not feeling so well, Though you might not be able to tell.