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KNACK is dedicated to showcasing the work of new artists of all mediums and to discussing trends and ideas within art communities. KNACK’s ultimate aim is to connect and inspire emerging artists. We strive to create a place for artists, writers, designers, thinkers, and innovators to collaborate and produce a unique, informative, and unprecedented web-based magazine each month.

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WILL SMITH Co-Founder, Digital Operations ANDREA VACA Co-Founder, Photo Editor, Production Manager, Marketing ARIANA LOMBARDI Executive Editor ARIANNA SULLIVAN Editor JONATHON DUARTE Design Director

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ARTIST BIOGR APHIES

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CHELSEY ALDEN

SERHAN SEZER

Born in New Britain, CT, Chelsey Alden earned a BA in Creative Writing from the Santa Fe University of Art & Design. An emerging poet with continual influences from Charles Bukowski and Sylvia Plath, Alden strives for detail, imagery, and acute attention to form, as constants in her poetry. She is currently living and working in Santa Fe, NM. This is her first publication.

Serhan Sezer is 21 years old, from Istanbul, Turkey. He is in his 4th year of university. serhan.sezer92@gmail.com serhansezer.com

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JERRY WELLMAN Jerry Wellman’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Holly Solomon Gallery in New York City, Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, The Downey Museum and The Orange County Center of Contemporary Art in California, The El Paso Museum of Art, and The Revolving Museum in Boston. His drawings were selected for a traveling show sponsored by the Smithsonian. “Emblems of Hidden Durations,” a sculptural installation, was created for the College of Santa Fe outdoor sculpture series. Another sculptural installation, “Tentative Phantom of the Clouds,” was commissioned by the city of West Hollywood. The L.A. Weekly selected him to be a featured artist at the Los Angeles Art Expo.

His video animation work has been presented at the Dallas International Video Festival, The Santa Fe International Film festival, The Kidseye festival in Newport RI and won 1st place at the Magnifico Exhibitions at the Albuquerque Museum.

Most recently Wellman co-produced a series of animated interstitials with PBS affiliate KNME-TV. In 2010 Wellman, along with Matthew Chase-Daniel, created AXLE CONTEMPORARY.

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CHELSEY ALDEN C R E AT I V E W R I T I N G

In my work, I deconstruct the perception of beauty and death, which are a part of our childhood and culture. I rely on the human desire of disgust. Humans seek out things that disgust them to the point of obsession. It is the classic struggle between the instinct to close your eyes, but the want to peek through the slits of your fingers. While I focus a great deal on detail, each person takes something a little different from the same poem and I’m happy with that.

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Let’s stop breathing—

Let’s get in / Let’s taste it / The song of your death / Here, breathless, we lie / A star keeps motion / one eye round and hollow / a hole / cutout / A lamp in the dark / Are we alive? / I have lost my sense— / Let’s sleep together in your mother’s grave / Let’s stab her / She stopped breathing / Brick by brick /

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The world turns / Spiderwebs of black tar swallow chirping flies / Let’s eat them

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Something Occult Pulled Me Under— Would you be my friend if there was a possibility of getting an avocado?

Green tendrils, curled around a brown heart. *

Thursday means— your heartbeat responds obediently to my hands.

Whispering clavicular bones. *

If you were a human machine, I would make you with lidless eyes— your fear is a handful of dust. * Monday means— your brain will allow one half-formed thought.

Pellucid coffee stains cover the sink. *

My brother wore glow-in-the-dark glasses.

His eyes: a set of

blackened globular duplets—

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Blinking ink at the stars.

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What Remains 1/ She believes I seduced him, even though he had me pinned to the bed - his hand over my mouth so I wouldn’t scream. She said, “You should have expected it. You drank so much.”

2/ I was feet-over-face, forehead-to-the-floor kind of drunk. He said, “You spilled the last one,” handed me another— 3/ Sun through the windows, he was shaking me awake. He said, “Get up; you better be gone by the time I get back.” I peeled my face from the wall.

4/ My roommate laughed. She said, “Drunk again?” I flopped on my bed, didn’t bother with the covers.

5/ I woke up puking. As a child, my mother fed me on sour milk. I remembered the taste in my mouth.

6/ I crawled to the shower on fours. Three tries to unbutton my jeans. Sitting against the marble, counting—

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7/ Eleven bruises on my thighs, two on my left breast, a handprint gripping my upper arm.

People say hair retains smell the longest.

Eight washes couldn’t take the vomit out of mine.

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SERHAN SEZER P H OT O G R A P H Y

While my university life began with advertising, I have many interests, including photography, graphic design, movie making, writing song lyrics and exploring different technologies. I am able to explore these different genres because I am energetic, creative and friendly. Every genre has its difficulties, but I enjoy the challenge. I like seeing, making, and doing things in the world that are not frequently seen: magical things.

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JERRY WELLMAN S T U D I O A R T / C R E AT I V E W R I T I N G

Since the passing of my brother in spirit Ronny, almost 35 years ago, I have thought deeply about what is death. Emblems of Hidden Durations investigates concepts of death, or perhaps equally accurately, deathlessness.

Spinoza proposes a difference between eternity and durations. He suggests eternity as the place that exists outside time and that durations exist as a series of overlapping and interconnected events.

More recently quantum mechanics theorizes, physical reality is a stack of events that exist as the ever changing indefinable now.

With this in mind I wrestle with the temptation to never use that word death, not as an act of defiance or even confusion, but just because it seems appropriate.

I gathered the following words in this book from the viewpoint of a conversation with myself at my imagined death.

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KNACK is pleased to feature an excerpt of Jerry Wellman’s book, Emblems of Hidden Duration, which is available online at http://axleart.com/index/Publications.html or at the Axle Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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A spinning sensation and the blowing and the noise motions playing upon my body and also my mind where the thoughts go undetected and so few made manifest Thankfully

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PHOTOGRAPHERS, GRAPHIC DESIGNERS & STUDIO ARTISTS Up to 10 high resolution images of your work. All must include pertinent caption information (name, date, medium, year). If there are specifications or preferences concerning the way in which an image is displayed please include them.

WRITERS K NAC K se e ks writing of all kinds . We will eve n conside r re cipes , reviews , and essays (although we do not prefe r any thing that is ac ade mic). We se e k write rs whose work has a distinc t voice , is charac te r drive n , and is subve rsive b ut tastef ul .

We are not inte reste d in fantasy or ge nre f ic tion . Yo u may submit up to 2 5 ,0 0 0 words and as lit tle as on e . We acce pt simultan e ous submissions . N o cove r let te r n e cessar y. All submissions must be 12pt, Tim es N ew Roman , do uble -space d with page numbe rs and include your nam e , e - mail , phon e numbe r, and ge nre .

ALL SUBMISSIONS: KNACK encourages all submitters to include an artist statement with their submission. We believe that your perspective of your work and process is as lucrative as the work itself. This may range from your upbringing and/or education as an artist, what type of work you produce, inspirations, etc. If there are specifications or preferences concerning the way in which an image is displayed please include them. A brief biography including your name, age, current location, and portrait of the artist is also encouraged (no more than 700 words).

*Please title f iles for submission with the name of the piece.

This applies for both writing and visual submissions.

ACCEPTABLE FORMATS IMAGES: PDF, TIFF, or JPEG WRITTEN WORKS: .doc, .docx, and RTF

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EMAIL: KNACKMAGAZINE1@GMAIL.COM SUBJECT: SUBMISSION (PHOTOGRAPHY, STUDIO ART, CREATIVE WRITING, GRAPHIC DESIGN )

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KNACK operates on a rolling submission system. This means that we will consider work from any artist at any time. Our “deadlines� merely serve as a cutoff for each issue of the magazine. Any and all work sent to knackmagazine1@gmail.com will be considered for submission as long as it follows submission guidelines. The day work is sent merely reflects the issue it will be considered for.

Have questions or suggestions? E-mail us. We want to hear your thoughts, comments, and concerns.

Sincerely, Ariana Lombardi, Editor

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