Harrison Candelaria Fletcher in Newfound Journal
This week, Broad Street recommends a dreamlike collage essay by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (whose piece in the “Hunt, Gather” issue recently was called “superb” in a review by New Pages). In “Artifacts,” published in the current issue of Newfound Journal, Fletcher offers an intimate, impressionistic portrait of his mother, who we see in a series of snapshots of...
Holding Pattern: designer Lauren O’Neill finds the art in Google and airports
CPH (Copenhagen. This image appeared in Broad Street 1.2, “Hunt, Gather”). Designer and artist Lauren O’Neill uses modern technology to create art out of everyday tools of modern life: Google, satellite imagery, and air travel. Her Tumblr blog, Holding Pattern, gathers bird’s-eye views of airports culled from Google Earth, revealing their abstract, sometimes breathtaking beauty. It’s...
