ISSUE II

fragmented materials & feelings through her
printmaking. She’s using collage and screen
printing to build up momentum and stories. She
tries to let her art allow the viewer to question a
lot of things, but mostly how we deal with ourselves
& love and experience moments. She
leaves just enough detail for you to wonder.
Ian Fleck is a 15 year old sophomore at the
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts,
where he is the first chair clarinetist in the orchestra.
He discovered his passion for music
at a very early age, and played several instruments
before deciding to focus on clarinet in
2013. He soon joined the Kadima Conservatory
of Music, where he continues to play yearround.
Ian enjoys many disciplines of music,
including arranging, transcribing, composing,
conducting, and performing. He studies music
from multiple genres such as jazz, classical, and
contemporary. He is the youngest of three children,
and lives in Los Angeles with his family.
Jasmine Flowers is a well-watered poet from
Birmingham, AL. Her favorite flowers should be
jasmines, but she loves peonies too. She received
her BA in English from the University of Alabama.
Currently, she is a poetry editor for Variant Literature
Journal. Her poems are published in Rejection
Letters, River Mouth Review, giallo, Q/A
Poetry, perhappened mag, Versification, and
Mineral Lit Mag. Follow her on Twitter: @jas_flow
Jackson Forte is a 19 year old composer and
multi-instrumentalist from San Clemente, California.
He is currently attending Chapman
University as a sophomore, pursuing a double
major in Music Composition and Keyboard Collaborative
Arts, as well as a minor in film music.
Jackson’s compositional style takes inspiration
from video game soundtracks and impressionist
music, as well as his own half-Korean heritage.
Additionally, he writes music for student
films, and is hoping to pursue a career in film
scoring. As a pianist, he often collaborates with
instrumentalists and vocalists as an accompanist,
playing in concerts and recitals. Aside from
this, Jackson also enjoys expanding his musical
instrument collection, and he hopes to get his
hands on a pair of bagpipes in the near future.
Rohit Ghusar is a 20 year old film student at
CSUN. He was born in Yuba City, California
and has been into photography for about
5 years and is a total camera nerd. Photography
was his introduction into film and holds a
very special place in his heart. Rohit’s dream
is to be a writer/director for film since it encompasses
all of his interests such as photography,
music, and writing. Rohit has won Gold
Key Scholastic Art Awards for his photography.
Andrés González-Bonillas is a Xicano poet,
student, and photographer based in Philadelphia
via Arizona. His work focuses on Latinx
identity, love, ancestral history, and radical
politics. Andrés has been published in
La Vida Magazine and has been a member of
the Excelano Project since 2019. He is pursuing
a BA in English at the University of Pennsylvania,
with a focus in Post-Colonial Lit and
Theory. Follow him on twitter @gonzanillas
Daniel Han is currently studying at the University
of Southern California School of Cinematic
Arts. Inspired by Chazelle, Spielberg, and
so many other legends, Daniel aspires to be
an auteur of his future productions. A people’s
person, Daniel values the human relationship
and character above all else both in his works
and in real life. Consequently, Daniel’s favorites
genre to write and create is a coming of
age story that is sprinkled with small moments
of fantasy, or as people call it, “movie-magic”.
Anashrita Henckel is an emerging artist who
was born in the Caribbean, grew up in London
and now lives and works in Dubai. Primary
school teacher by day and artist by night, she
works in a variety of media including drawing,
painting, paper sculpture and digital art and has
a particular interest in constructing geometric
motifs that add layers and meaning to her artworks.
As a young artist fresh out of university,
Anashrita took part in exhibitions in London and
Staffordshire and has seen many of her artworks
sold to private collectors. She then took time
away from the artworld to raise her two cheeky
sons to teenagehood, but has now resumed creating
and has artwork in several online gallery
collections. Anashrita has plans to exhibit in