Wade through the depths of this creative collection. This collection explores the theme “Water” via inspiring paintings, photography, drawings, poems and more by international, emerging, and indie artists and writers.

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Tanya Adèle Koehnke

Refreshment

Glacial tap water
gushes into glass pitcher

torn packet
pours black-cherry powder…

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Alison Lake

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www.alisonlake.photography

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Lisa Roy

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Tanya Adèle Koehnke

Wishing Well

Buttercups and clovers
ring the cobblestone well
deep dark dank.

Desert groundswell
echoes my name…

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Santford Overton

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Arijeet Mitra

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https://arimitra90.wixsite.com/curatistudio

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Marian Kaplun Shapiro

Same Old

cabin on (the
lake)
birches by (the
lake)
duck swimming in (the…

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Arlene M. Katz

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Alexis Herman

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www.alexishermanstudio.com

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Natalia Maria Centeno López

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https://www.nataliacentenolopez.com

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Maidie Hilmo

Hollow World—A Visual Exploration of a New Subterranean Utopia

In the future, according to the prediction by 20th-century artist and former mariner Carle Hessay (1911-1978), new technologies will make it possible to counteract the ever-threatening catastrophic destruction of life on earth. In his series of futurist Hollow World paintings, made as part of a Canada Council Explorations project, Hessay imagined the creation of a second earth formed by the hollowing out of the present one…

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https://carlehessay.com

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TM Stoecklein

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https://thomasmichaeltm.com

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Mike Stengl

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https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mikestengl