Ultraviolet Magazine Volume 26

UV Magazine 2021 - 2022

Volume XXVI

EDITORIAL BOARD Co-Editors-in-Chief

Co-Heads of Events

Sadie Levine Annie Rogers

Samantha Nicastro Anna Nicolela

Co-Heads of Social Media

Assistant Events

Sophia Sieffert Gretchen Eng

Eliza Murphy Mahak Gandre

Head of Layout

Head of Website

Haleema Raja

Kayla Sheehan

Assistant Layout Jade DeLuca- Ahooja

SOCIAL MEDIA Email

ultravioletmagazine@gmail.com

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Front Cover & Back Cover Jobelle Quijiano............Halloween

EDITORS LETTER. For 26 years Ultraviolet Magazine has showcased the creativity of talented artists and writers from the Queen’s community and beyond.

The magazine’s website has allowed for artists’ submissions to reach a wider audience through the acceptance of work in digital mediums like film and music. Our print publication aims to highlight the strongest submissions from the past year. With increased social isolation due to the pandemic, self-discovery through creativity has become even more important. It is our goal for Ultraviolet Magazine to provide a platform for this creativity and to foster inspiration and motivation for local artists and writers.

The creation of this Volume of Ultraviolet Magazine is only made possible by the hard work of our editorial board. This year we decided to expand our editorial board, and could not be happier with the result. We had several new members join us, and each member brought new insights and skills. We’re so proud of everyone who has contributed to the production of this volume and helped to share this wonderful art. We’d like to thank Haleema, who’s now been with the magazine for 3 years transforming the layout. We’d also like to thank Jade who brought the fresh idea of this year’s collage theme.

Additionally, we want to thank the events team, Sam, Anna, Eliza, and Mahak, for dedicating themselves to planning events during an uncertain time. We would also like to thank the social media team, Gretchen and Sophia, for maintaining the important connection between Ultraviolet and its social media following. Finally, we’d like to thank Kayla for consistently maintaining the website. A special thank you goes out to all the artists who submitted to the magazine, without them this truly wouldn’t be possible.

On behalf of the editorial board, we’re excited to share the 26th Volume of Ultraviolet Magazine with the world.

Sincerely, Sadie and Annie

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Inv ert ed ang el Matthew Conway

A Prologue in Heaven Danielle Furtado

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A Prologue in Heaven

Broken chalks of laughter At the inevitable encored show No one wanted it But everyone said it Glares and nods Blinks and surrendering boxes Sitting hunched like a space to fill Though no one is there It’s stark and empty Su mm er Wi nn And smells like never present breath Old lipstick kissed between cracked lips Just masses of breath that fastened to the drone of uniformity Though everyone was naive And no one is there And smiles of injury never recovered Always twitching Always eyeing the truthful Seeking out the passive Amplified by their stillness 3 Untitled - Chloe Baker

broken buzz

where are you REALLY from

Despair Burns in the Old

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Coping

Elliot Stocking

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Human Anatomy love is found in the chest along with fear and heartache

and other anxieties the fluttering of unease the resounding rattle of loneliness they can all be found there too crushing the rib cage and soft tissues

DID SHE WANT TO.

-Olivia Joseph

Julia Kochanski

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Bacchus

Flynn Eves-Welch

Jane Forrest

Best Friend

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Jane Forrest

Castle Sleepover

JobeneQuijano

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Trust the Result Aiya Fuller v

Under Marine Amy Ai

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4:38am Ciara Rose

Fernie Jayden Couper

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Balwdin Groceries Ciara Ross

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Cleo Abboud

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POST- EVENT EMBARASSMENT - urooj salar

Later, I'm embarrassed because I referenced the wrong movie and you imagined I was stupid but now you know that I am.

I'm afraid of contradictions, of being hypocritical, of appearing like a fake (even though I am a fake); we always talk about people you don’t like, all of their plastic.

But you and I are real, right?

Later, I'm embarrassed because you smelled desperation on my breath as I got too close too fast; I'll tell you I love you when I don't, hold your hand before you hold mine, and loathe myself for it, but hold on just the same.

Later, I'm embarrassed because I didn't speak until I spoke out of turn, (I hate speaking out of turn).

I'll push air through my trachea, stop it from tightening around my fear of this, strain to be heard, knowing you don't really want to hear me anyway.

You just want to get this over with.

SHARP EDGES

Nicole Banton - Tough Guy

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Melzee Diao - Winter Nights

I can hear you say “I’m sorry, but it was for the best” What I wish I could tell you Is that You Were the best of us And I can’t help but believe that you knew that So why did you leave.

- Maya Mates

Elizabeth Albrecht - A Memory with Alex

Amy Ai - Coverage

Arya Raol - Eye for an Eye

Arya Raol - Persuasion

SKINNY DIPPING The water embraces me, lapping against my thighs caressing me as I move to the music of the waves; my body in the pale moonlight bare beneath the water.

I feel light with all my troubles out of sight as they ebb away into the night.

Drunk on stars that shine so bright the stars that light the way while the cool water soothes the fire within -GILLIAN STEWART

Indira de Cartier - Generations

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Amy Ai - A Quiet Town

human anatomy

love is found in the chest along with fear and heartache and other anxieties the fluttering of unease the resounding rattle of loneliness they can all be found there too crushing the rib cage and soft tissues

- Olivia Joseph

Jane Forrest - Kensington Houses

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Kaylen Schumann - Brain Doodle Jane Forrest - Good Night House

Jane Forrest - What Might Have Been Lost

stopping fear

Fear consumes us.

It paralyzes us causing our body and logic to shut down and stop.

Asloan Jaroszynski - Anatomy

We are in control of our bodies and our lives.

Do not let fear prevent you from living.

Fear keeps you stagnant; it would keep you trapped if it could, and it can for as long as you allow it.

Rather than let fear control you, let yourself control fear.

Look fear in the eye and tell it to stop.

- Gillian Stewart

Jane Forrest - History in the Walls

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LET IT COME GENTLY I hope that dawn will wake them all The trees, the fields, the roads I’ll listen as the finches sail And dive at streams below Come footfall, come light, But leave me more to find Bring lavender and beads of dew Who now, is left behind?

A gentle sigh, a pollen haze The voice of distant sea The last goodbye to darker days A place for you and me

Ava Tkaczuk - Leaf Girl

Above the mist, above the sand Above the coloured earth We’ll find a way to open hearts And lead us to rebirth - Kimberly Syntra

Anthony Valiulin - Portrait of the Artist as Pierrot

Amy Ai - Imaginary Bubble

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Leila Shahzamani-Griggs - Alluring Fear

- Laurel Yates

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Ava Tkaczuk - Heritage

Amy Ai - Corner

the biggest lie I tell to myself

Daria Khodabandehloo -Moment 1

Aïda Šulcs

I tell myself if I stay awake, the next day won’t come.

I stare at my wall.

I scan my phone.

I retrace my footsteps of the day.

I find comforting places, to be alone, reflect and bask in warm light.

I do anything to make it feel like I’m slowing down, or even stopping time; even if that means depriving myself of sleep.

The desperate want to avoid the stress the next day will bring.

The feeling of everything and nothing at the same time.

No one expects anything of me at this moment.

I need to make it last.

Aïda Šulcs

LIGHTING POETRY within the purple skies hidden behind clouds clouds that carry lightness yet also the weigh tof loss within the noise of thunder but in utter silence easily displacing the world as fallen branches are moved cities pull themselves together eyes erase the bright spots left behind readjusting to only darkness - Jane Forrest Laken Harrison - In The Eye Of The Beholder

Aniyah Faisal - A Portrait With Scattered Masks

Amy Ai - A Sky Fractured City

Rebecca van Gennip -Keeping in Touch

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Danielle Furtado - Overthrown

ALUMNI ARTWORK

Sebastien Duff-Mailloux - Tree Climbing

Sebastien Duff-Mailloux - Tree Climbing

By the Sea

Evergreens peer through the thick fog, watching As islands, unseen, appear, then vanish; We hunt the hunters as they hunt the fish— And listen (above, trees are still, watching)—

Helena Gagnier - Make Space

Deep breaths in the mist! We’re getting close now.

“Hard to starboard--hard to port!”

“Turn around!

Turn around!”

“Off the stern—no! Off the bow!”

Through all the fog, we nearly run aground.

In the confusion, the rocks lure us in; The trees, growing closer, see us coming; Rain starts to fall—all around us—drumming, Yet, we persist, like the engine’s humming.

Then—BANG—there’s a crash; the whale gets away.

Our splintered boat sinks; the whale gets away.

Peter Reimer

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