The inspiring artists and writers that were selected for the April 2016 ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal issue and online exhibition themed Heat.

Ryota Matsumoto

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Chaos usually carries negative connotations. However, it can also be a basis for creating new phenomena. For example, as it’s commonly known, heat is the manifestation of molecular motion – the chaotic colliding that transforms matter. Ryota Matsumo is one of the artists who seeks to turn chaos into new order in his works.

Ryota Matsumoto is the Gold Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for artists. To see the full body of work and profile, get a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.ryotamatsumotostudio.blogspot.com

Jeff Stone

Fire

Sun – light – fire – life… This is a symbolical chain around which the whole human culture has been organized for thousands of years. They had been worshipped since the times immemorial, influencing numerous beliefs and religions…

Entity is filled with contradictions: things that create can easily be turned into the tools of destruction; the warming heat can grow into the scorching flame. In his piece Fire, writer Jeff Stone reflects upon this amazing duality of life.

Jeff Stone is the Gold Writer of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for writers. To see the full body of work and profile, get a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.jeffstonewords.wordpress.com

CADOC

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In the oriental tradition, Yang is typically associated with masculinity, brightness and heat; whereas Yin’s properties are femininity, darkness and coldness. Even Aristotle believed that women generate less heat than men. Has the perception of female/male sexuality changed over the centuries? The artist known as CADOC touches upon this question in his oeuvre.

CADOC is the Silver Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for artists. To see the full body of work and profile, get a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Lauren Moss

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Biographies of some artists remind of the Phoenix – a legendary bird that can reborn from its own ashes. Similarly, creators go through pain-of-life troubles, which turn them into the heat of transformations. Lauren Moss believes cathartic experience to be the element that connects the hearts of an artist and a viewer.

Lauren Moss is the Bronze Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for artists. To see the full body of work and profile, get a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.artistlaurenmoss.com

A.S. Cuffari

Heartfelt Heat

From a foreign place it did come
Hence bidding farewell to foolishly awaiting an apology
Unable to tame all that was rising from within
The blaze hastily took over…

Distinguished Writer of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Darek Kondefer

Addict

Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Lauren C. Sudbrink

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.laurencsudbrink.com

Rosita Abdo

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent Heat call for entry. To see this in print, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.rositaabdo.com

Wicus Foster

Collateral Heat

Air Force Sta Sargent, Lance Aubrey, hated Vegas. Too damn hot and too many damn people. He joined the Air Force because he liked flying his dad’s Cessna 172 over wide-open spaces as nothing is bigger than a blue empty sky…

Distinguished Writer of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.wicusfoster.com

Angela Sharkey

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.angelasharkey.com

Mark A. Bernhardt

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Renata

Incendio

Smoke started to rise from the primitive bow-drill. Large and in amed her centre grew
The shadow of a small flicker was seen
A fetus was born…

Distinguished Writer of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Marilena Karagkiozi

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.behance.net/marilenaKara

Ian Wilson

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent Heat call for entry. To see this in print, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Otto Schmidinger

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent Heat call for entry. To see this in print, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Lorette C. Luzajic

Jalapeños

You were too hot to handle, I said, trying to make light with corny clichés. But you could not be consoled. It was hard for me to accept that anyone had the power to upset you so profoundly; somebody other than me…

Distinguished Writer of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.mixedupmedia.ca

Gillian Smith

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent Heat call for entry. To see this in print, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.gilliansmith1973.wix.com/gilliansmithart

Jessica Welhaf

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent Heat call for entry. To see this in print, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Alexander Butterfield

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Distinguished Artist of the ArtAscent Heat call for entry. To see this in print, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

Bill Gralnick

Heat

In Brooklyn (New York, of course) when it was this kind of hot we’d say, “Boy this is a hot heat!” And was it ever, that August day in 1962. It was the kind of heat so heavy that it filled the spaces between houses…

Distinguished Writer of the ArtAscent “Heat” call for entry. To see the full body of work, grab a copy of the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal “Heat” issue.

www.atleastfrommyperspectiveblog.wordpress.com