Our current issue, "Blossoming Hope: Making Sense of the Nonsensical," was selected by our 2023-2024 Image Tree Team to represent the ways that we create meaning in order to keep ourselves going. Contemporary issues provide a number of anxieties, fears, and uncertainty about the future. It is important that through those times we maintain our understanding of self and create meaning that we wish to see.
This poem explores the themes of an Introductory Philosophy class and the puzzling questions that life throws our way. The comforting thing in asking so many questions is that if you ask enough, you can claim it's a rhetorical choice rather than a representation of uncertainty. In this piece, I use juxtaposition and rhetorical questions to...
These works are a collection of charcoal illustrations on paper created for the purpose of exploring the ways that humans undervalue the lives of non-human animals and insects. Each of the three panels expresses a different sentiment intended to provide sympathetic understanding to a non-human creatures and the violence they face for the simple...
This piece is a blossoming hope for me, as it provided myself a feeling of freedom and self-realization. Sometimes, the self, is nonsensical! Silly and un-explainable. This poem feels that way to me, it explains an un-explainable feelings of joy and freedom. A true expression of self in what I would like me to be, if the constraints of society...
Like a flower blossoming, so too does resistance grow in grassroots movements. Yet only in solidarity can we manage to succeed in our goals. This poem is about the sole rebels, the outspoken defiance that we often observe but never join. I love the use of a dandelion as a metaphor for the other and unwanted, because it truly is...