Editor’s Note...
Lauren Tamraz
Happy March, dear reader. We hate to get swept up (pardon the pun) with all the changes in the area—snow, rain, floods, sunshine and a few tastes of warm breezes, but we have some changes going on around here, too. The most exciting addition to the Awosting Alchemy family is our music section, featuring Breakfast in Fur as our very first artist of the month. We’re ironing out the details, but the essential part is that you’ll get some great sounds with every new issue. We’re happy to introduce you to BIF if you’ve never had the pleasure of each other’s company before, and hope to offer some sneaky new tidbits if you have already signed each other’s dance cards—namely that they’ve just signed with Analog Edition Records and are about to put out a brand new EP! Another change to the magazine for this, our third issue, is an affirmation of our motto, “Inspired by the Hudson Valley and beyond.” We have been flattered and intrigued to begin receiving submissions from around the country and the globe, including South America and Europe. We have chosen to highlight a few of those writers hailing more from the ‘beyond’, and we hope you’ll welcome them to the Valley. One of the earliest goals for this publication was that it become a true outlet for those it inspired, and I am happy we are including other spontaneous and creative minds from outside our flooding boundaries. It seems not only the Wallkill, Rondout and other area waters are blurring their lines, but we are as well, happily. Thanks for returning for a new edition of Awosting Alchemy. Happy Spring… XO, *L
Cover Artist: Emmanuel Goldstein Emmanuel Goldstein grew up in a small town in upstate New York and attended The University at Albany. He received his BFA in 2009. He moved to Rosendale, New York in 2010 to join a wonderful artistic community and has since been working on his artwork with plans to attend graduate school in the Fall. Goldstein’s work is an expulsion of thoughts and ideas pertaining to human interaction, mediated surroundings, street art, and adolescence that combine elements of abstraction, and narrative. His drawings are created in a variety of different ways, and with various immediate materials. Repetition and line are the main focus within his drawings. These two elements, combined with a memory search of childhood occurrences, are what drive him to create.