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<strong>01</strong>: BRUTE REASON, WINTER 2020<br />

ALLERLEIRAUH, BROTHERS<br />

THE BOTTOM LINE IS RED<br />

AN EPILOGUE . . . BUT WAIT<br />

FEATURING<br />

ROBERT ASHLEY’S DUST<br />

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Show, don’t tell<br />

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<strong>01</strong>: BRUTE REASON, WINTER 2020<br />

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INTRO<br />

Face the sun<br />

They got stories<br />

Face the sun<br />

I listen to the story<br />

I love the story<br />

Go real fast<br />

Faster, man<br />

Some word<br />

Stop all the shit<br />

Got to go fast, man<br />

I love the story<br />

I need that sound, man<br />

Like a story inside a story, you know what I mean<br />

Robert Ashley, Dust, 1998<br />

Typographers design using other people’s words but can only go<br />

so far in modifying a text, even when there is a clear syntactic<br />

path to understanding. The intention is not to provide a course,<br />

but to create an experience based on language as presented<br />

visually, in order to enhance perceptual meaning. Artists have<br />

made similar gestures in varying forms throughout all of history. <br />

In the play Hamlet, a troupe of actors are used to perform the play<br />

The Murder of Gonzaga, but Hamlet modifies the play to convey<br />

his suspicion of Claudius. Hamlet has reason to believe that<br />

Claudius murdered his father, and wants to observe his reaction to<br />

a reenactment of the assassination. The play-within-a-play is a<br />

mousetrap, as Hamlet maintains, “The play is the thing Wherein<br />

I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” A <strong>dumb</strong>show, like<br />

typography, is intended to help transfer meaning and provide<br />

action to the main drama. <br />

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INTRO<br />

The concept of this art journal was developed with these<br />

devices in mind, and the <strong>dumb</strong>show is also an inspiration for<br />

the title. The theme for this first <strong>issue</strong> is entirely open, and the<br />

works are arranged so that they might be read in new ways.<br />

We are all, at some point, in a play-within-a-play gesturing<br />

from our little stages what we want the institutions we are a<br />

part of to see. This journal is a way to bring some of our<br />

gestures and an audience together for a closer view, and better<br />

understanding of what we mean to say with our work.<br />

<strong>dumb</strong> is a student-run art journal at Pennsylvania Academy of<br />

the Fine Arts. This first <strong>issue</strong>, <strong>Brute</strong> <strong>Reason</strong>, brings together<br />

pieces from students, staff, and peers and is threaded with a<br />

compilation of known works, notes, and other ponderings in<br />

various forms of art and text.<br />

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GRAHAM CUDDY<br />

Spring #2<br />

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ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

Goose Tales<br />

Princess Mouseskin<br />

King, <strong>dumb</strong>. Said fast,“who loves me best”. Daughter #1 more<br />

than jewels. Daughter two, wealth in kingdom. But Daughter<br />

three, simple salt. King turned to the green, and said “to the<br />

forest, with our foe”. Knife, beg relief. Do not engrave my<br />

destiny. Carve me a suit of a Mouseskin, if you please.<br />

Ferns grow, and cotton traps. Servant, prevailed unveiled<br />

without nail, noose, or knife. True knights don’t have to use<br />

knives. Mercy, made maiden miracled, unscathed. Princess<br />

under covered mouse traps, untraps, with Mouseskin, over skin,<br />

to prevent becoming skinned.<br />

Under boot and toe. For a while. But fawns fast, and warm<br />

hides. Even Selkies leafs, water. And so, Bride groomed. Long<br />

golden, becoming. Father invited, vying. Newly weds, he<br />

thought he knew not. Tying the knot.<br />

Cunning Queen, special meal, underguise, unappetized. Arms<br />

fastened, lack fathom. Ew, hick-ory, trickory! “I’d rather die<br />

than eat such food!”.<br />

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continued on page 47


ABBEY LAKEY<br />

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HEATHER PALMER<br />

Quarantine: April 21st<br />

I just spilled boiling hot green tea<br />

with red burns on my wrist<br />

My boyfriend handed me a napkin<br />

And said, here’s an orange to start.<br />

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10<br />

ESTEN WALKER


ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

11<br />

continued on page 82


CORY PIGEON<br />

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ROBERT ASHLEY<br />

Dust<br />

Swing, duck. Swing, duck.<br />

Shit. The outside guy is watching. I don’t have it in me.<br />

I am ashamed because of the outside guy.<br />

It’s like ashamed because you are too short.<br />

Or like ashamed because you can’t get a sun tan.<br />

White skin. Sun. <br />

The skin gets red and three days later it’s gone. <br />

White skin. Too short. Bad teeth. <br />

All those things you can’t do anything about.<br />

And my problem is I don’t have it in me.<br />

I get the guy who has finished buttoning up his pants.<br />

He is very calm. He never misses.<br />

Bam. Loose tooth. Bam. The bells are ringing.<br />

I want to be someplace else. I should start running.<br />

But I can’t, because of the outside guy.<br />

Swing, duck. Swing, duck. I can’t touch this guy.<br />

Bam. The bells are ringing.<br />

The outside guy is watching. I will never live this down.<br />

From now on. For the rest of my life.<br />

The outside guy knows. I don’t have it in me.<br />

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continued on page 75


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ZUZANNA LEGAN<br />

Słowa Na Wiatr


MAGGIE DELANEY<br />

Reliquary<br />

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ESTEN WALKER<br />

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ESTEN WALKER<br />

Appalachian<br />

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18<br />

SALLIE AYCOCK MARSHALL


MATTHEW FIELDS<br />

Brick by Brick<br />

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BASAK KILICBEYLI<br />

House<br />

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ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

Placeholders, i think<br />

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PLACEHOLDERS, I THINK<br />

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ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

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DOLORES BARTHOLOMEW<br />

Planting Dreams<br />

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SALLIE AYCOCK MARSHALL<br />

Untitled<br />

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CHRISTINE BELTON <br />

The City Unseen<br />

What does systemic racism look like mapped onto our everyday<br />

lives? It looks like decades of housing, educational, banking/loan,<br />

transportation and employment inequity forced into being by the<br />

Federal government’s decisions about who gets to live in what<br />

neighborhoods.<br />

Read Next City’s article, “How Redlining Segregated Philadelphia”<br />

and explore their interactive map based on the 1935-1940 Home<br />

Owners Loan Corporation Risk Maps. Take some time to<br />

experiment with the redlined map – it allows you to adjust the filters<br />

and view the map with today’s current household income,<br />

brownfield, high school graduation rates, crime and median house<br />

prices.<br />

By using the QR code, you will find photos of an old AAA map of<br />

Philadelphia. I’ve traced the HOLC red lines on the map with a<br />

Sharpie. I’m also traversing my way along the perimeter of the red<br />

lines, documenting the long-term effects of redlining on<br />

neighborhoods. Because banks lend to Black and Latinx –<br />

mortgages and home improvement/equity loans – at a small fraction<br />

of the percentage they lend to White people, neighborhoods go<br />

through a physical decline and often swift gentrification.<br />

In this work in progress, as I physically trace the lines of<br />

demarcation and destiny across Philadelphia, I stop at intersections<br />

along the perimeter. I take a photo and document the intersection,<br />

and place a sticker with a QR code leading to the site where the<br />

photos are housed. I encourage viewers to explore one of the<br />

primary unseen structures that have determined the long-term well<br />

being of many of Philadelphia’s residents at the expense of others.<br />

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28<br />

KRISTEN WONG AND SARAH LESNIKOSKI<br />

#thisaintartschool


NASIR YOUNG<br />

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ISHA TRIPATHI<br />

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KOFI PERRY<br />

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HEATHER PALMER<br />

Funeral<br />

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ASHLEY JOHNSON<br />

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CAMERON BUNTING<br />

Sun<br />

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DOLORES BARTHOLOMEW<br />

Disregards of Science: Drowned <br />

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YEE LI<br />

Untitled<br />

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MARY BETH DRABISZCZAK<br />

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ABBEY LAKEY<br />

Cyclical<br />

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HEATHER PALMER<br />

Mid-century Modern<br />

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SARAH BUTLER<br />

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MATTHEW PRING<br />

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TAYLOR LARSEN<br />

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ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

Ferns grow and cotton traps...<br />

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SARAH LESNIKOSKI<br />

Hackman<br />

Stereo-typed by Design<br />

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MARIKA HACKMAN<br />

The One<br />

Sold out<br />

I've given up my soul now<br />

I thought that I could be unique<br />

Fuck it I am just so weak<br />

Love me more<br />

I need to be adored<br />

(You're such an attention whore!)<br />

No I'm just like you<br />

But I can be your hero too<br />

I'm not the one you want<br />

I fucked it up with the saddest songs<br />

I'm not the one you want<br />

But leave it on<br />

Leave it on<br />

Bow down<br />

Vanilla and I'm proud now<br />

They're saying I'm a god sent gift<br />

And all you fuckers want my dick<br />

Love me more<br />

Rub me 'til my ego is raw<br />

(That's not what we came here for!)<br />

I've got BDE<br />

I think it's a venereal disease<br />

She likes to have attention<br />

She longs for your affection<br />

She likes to have attention<br />

She longs for your affection<br />

I'm not the one you want <br />

(She likes to have attention<br />

She longs for your affection)<br />

I fucked it up with the saddest songs<br />

(She likes to have attention<br />

She longs for your affection)<br />

I'm not the one you want <br />

(She likes to have attention<br />

She longs for your affection)<br />

But leave it on<br />

Leave it on<br />

I'm not the one you want<br />

I fucked it up with the saddest songs<br />

I'm not the one you want<br />

But leave it on<br />

Leave it on<br />

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MARLEY PARSONS<br />

One Thing After Another<br />

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ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

Goose Tales<br />

continued on page 82<br />

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KRISTY FROM-BROWN<br />

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CHRISTINE BELTON<br />

Have a Piece of Fruit<br />

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LOUIS MAZZA<br />

50


ARTI STRUYANSKIY<br />

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MIKEL ELAM<br />

Orb<br />

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CLINT JUKKALA<br />

Afterglow<br />

53


KATE MORAN<br />

Rosebud<br />

54


KATE MORAN<br />

Harriet<br />

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56<br />

SHERRY ROSSINI


PEGGY O’DONNELL<br />

A Lucid Dream<br />

57


58<br />

DORI MILLER


DORI MILLER<br />

59


60<br />

CLINT JUKKALA


CORY PIGEON<br />

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62<br />

TAYLOR FREEMAN<br />

Pink Favelas


OSKAR KALINOWSKI<br />

Untitled<br />

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KRISTY FROM-BROWN<br />

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KRISTY FROM-BROWN<br />

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66<br />

DANIEL DE BLASIO<br />

The Heart of Havana


TANIA QURASHI<br />

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68<br />

NICOLE IRENE ANDERSON


HEATHER PALMER<br />

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DAVERY VEAL<br />

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DOMINICK MAYS<br />

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72<br />

CHERISSE ALCANTARA


DAVID DEMPEWOLF<br />

Quivering Surfaces<br />

watch this: https://vimeo.com/488520592<br />

strobe light effects<br />

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74<br />

TAYLOR FREEMAN<br />

Lost at Sea


ROBERT ASHLEY<br />

It’s Easy<br />

continued on page 78<br />

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K. MALCOLM RICHARDS<br />

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K. MALCOLM RICHARDS<br />

Dream Letters<br />

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IT’S EASY<br />

continued on page 94<br />

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SARAH LESNIKOSKI<br />

Bile Abide<br />

79


CHARMAINE KOH<br />

Cloud Down<br />

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KIRSTEN BREHMER<br />

For Protection<br />

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ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

Cinderella<br />

Cinder, blocks. Fortune, fate. A pretty girl, neath the soot. Clean, sweeps. Winnings, neat. For a bimbo bound. Wealth<br />

ponds. Pool, and damn up. Liquid mold, in a foot hold. Ducked, below. Hits and throws. Looking through. Window, pains.<br />

Looking for. God, Mother!<br />

Ugly, ducking. Under chic, Givenchy. Glass slippers make for slippy flippers. Glass sippers, drink until they’re seen<br />

through.<br />

Clocked, Strike Out! Lucky #7 on the matchbox. Tic tac toes gotta go. Shoes, off! A Mr. right with all wrong answers, is no<br />

Jake Ryan. Girl, forlorn. Marlboro lights, bore on. Flick, switch. Couldn’t find her match. Swipe right.<br />

Knocking on knock-offs handbags, turn doors. Lock and key, don’t ask me. But one last try, it seems the shoe fits. Heel,<br />

girl! Toes follow closely behind. Risk isn’t just a board game, when you’ve got no pocket change. Ankle sores, money<br />

opens doors. They say love heals all wounds.<br />

continued on page 86<br />

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EXCESS<br />

Measure is only a convention, an intersubjective agreement<br />

which is the condition of merit (social recognizability).<br />

Poetry is the excess which break the limit and escapes<br />

measure. The ambiguousness of poetical words, indeed, may<br />

be defined as semantic overinclusiveness. Like the schizo,<br />

the poet does not respect the conventional limits of the<br />

relation between signifier and the signified, and reveals an<br />

infinitude of the process of meaning-making (signification).<br />

Exactness and compliance are the conditions of merit and<br />

exchange. Excessiveness is the condition of revelation, of<br />

emancipation from established meaning and the disclosure of<br />

an unseen horizon of signification: the possible. <br />

Franco “Bifo” Berardi<br />

It is in the same life; the heart changes, and it is<br />

our worst sorrow; but we know it only through<br />

reading, through our imagination: in reality its<br />

alteration, like that of a certain natural<br />

phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able<br />

to distinguish, successively, each of its different<br />

states, we are still spared the actual sensation of<br />

change. <br />

The numbers are made of rubber or something<br />

like that.<br />

Robert Ashley, The Backyard, 1978<br />

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84<br />

SARAH LESNIKOSKI<br />

Cue the Impossible


PRIVATE LETTERS AND MISSED CONNECTIONS<br />

In this work, at all times, the human spirit is shown<br />

as modified by its relation to force, as swept away, blinded by the very force it imagined it<br />

could handle, as deformed by the weight of the force it submits to. For those dreamers who<br />

considered that force, thanks to progress, would soon be a thing of the past, the Iliad could<br />

appear as an historical document; for others, whose powers of recognition are more acute and<br />

who perceive force, today as yesterday, at the very center of human history, the Iliad is the<br />

purest and loveliest of mirrors. <br />

To define force—it is that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing:<br />

. . . the horses<br />

Rattled the empty chariots through the files of battle,<br />

Longing for their noble drivers. But they on the ground<br />

Lay, dearer to the vultures than to their wives.<br />

<br />

Simone Weil, The Iliad or The Poem of Force<br />

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86<br />

ADRIANA LOBEL<br />

Goose Tales


MAGGIE DELANEY<br />

Diary Entry<br />

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LAURA HAWLEY<br />

laura@acuphilly.com<br />

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ADVICE COLUMN<br />

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MARCO ROTH<br />

Epilogue for a Way of Life<br />

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EPILOGUE FOR A WAY OF LIFE<br />

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MARCO ROTH<br />

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EPILOGUE FOR A WAY OF LIFE<br />

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ROBERT ASHLEY<br />

Man, this is what I<br />

came for<br />

I am in touch with the voice<br />

And he’s telling me shit I can’t even understand <br />

I am in touch with the voice<br />

And he’s telling me shit I can’t even understand<br />

I am in heaven, man<br />

Like<br />

There is an end<br />

I think that’s what he said <br />

But shit, man, it’s like ‘eresane’<br />

I can’t even do it<br />

If I could do it, I could do the whole thing<br />

I’m saying shit and this voice is telling me <br />

But I can’t do it<br />

I could have learned everything<br />

I could have learned shit that nobody knows<br />

But I just didn’t have time, you know<br />

And I’m trying to get it all down<br />

Dialoguing, you know what I mean?<br />

I’m saying shit and this voice is telling me I’m<br />

getting the whole fucking message<br />

Stops the whole thing<br />

stops the whole thing <br />

stops the killing <br />

stop all the shit<br />

stop all the shit<br />

Stop it<br />

stop<br />

Stop<br />

it goes by so fast<br />

human doesn’t get it<br />

I can hear it<br />

but it’s too fast<br />

Oh, shit, we are dialoguing<br />

I’m crying<br />

The fucking tears are in my eyes<br />

I’m getting it<br />

The fucking tears are in my eyes<br />

Now, I’m losing it<br />

I’m listening, but I’m losing it<br />

Too fucking fast, but clear and loud<br />

Now, I’m losing it<br />

I’m losing it<br />

I’m losing it<br />

I’m still saying shit and the answer is coming <br />

But I can’t hear it<br />

I lost it<br />

listen: https://www.lafayetteanticipations.com/en/exposition/willholder-alex-waterman-yes-it-edible<br />

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COMPARATIVE FORMS<br />

Like a patient etherized upon a table;<br />

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:<br />

Petals on a wet, black bough. <br />

There’s an implied comparison. Eliot just includes the<br />

“like”, so you don’t miss that.<br />

John Yau<br />

“As the spectator identifies with the main male<br />

protagonist he projects his look onto that of his<br />

like, [his screen surrogate]<br />

so that the power of the male protagonist<br />

[as he controls events] coincides with<br />

the active power [of the erotic look],<br />

both giving a satisfying sense of omnipotence.”<br />

from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey, 1973<br />

Jacques Derrida, Psyche: Inventions of the Other<br />

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NOTES<br />

6 Graham Cuddy, Spring #2, Acrylic on hand carved wood, 2020<br />

Villanova<br />

7 Adriana Lobel, Goose Tales, poems, 2020<br />

Philadelphia<br />

8 Abbey Lakey, Days, poem, 2020<br />

8 Abbey Lakey, Diary Entry, Time, steel, yarn, 2020<br />

8 Abbey Lakey, Counting, Time, steel, yarn, 2020<br />

Philadelphia<br />

9 Heather Palmer, Quarantine: April 21st, poem, 2020<br />

the wilds of Pennsylvania, mostly Philadelphia<br />

10 Esten Walker, Measuring time with a six foot pole while burning a poem, 2020<br />

Chapel Hill and Newland, NC<br />

11 Adriana Lobel, Story Board of Portraits of friends I don’t remember and Goose Tales, 2020<br />

12 Cory Pigeon, The American Game, oil painting, 5x5.5 ft, 2020<br />

12 Cory Pigeon, Daydreamer, oil painting, 48x48 in., 2020<br />

Philadelphia<br />

13 Robert Ashley, Dust, Opera, 1998<br />

Manhattan<br />

14 Zuzanna Legan, Słowa Na Wiatr, poems, 2020<br />

Warsaw<br />

15 Maggie Delaney, Reliquary, clay, wood, found plants, 14x9x2 in., 2020<br />

Silver Spring, MD<br />

16 Esten Walker, Untitled poem, 2020<br />

17 Esten Walker, Appalachian, jpeg, 2020<br />

18 Sallie Aycock Marshall, Untitled, acrylic on wood, 5x3.5 ft., 2020<br />

18 Sallie Aycock Marshall, Untitled, acrylic on wood, 5x3.5 ft., 2020<br />

18 Sallie Aycock Marshall, Goddess, acrylic on wood, 5x3.5 ft., 2020<br />

Doylestown, PA<br />

19 Matthew Fields, Brick by Brick, 2020<br />

St. Louis, MO<br />

20 Basak Kilicbeyli, recreated childhood drawing, digital, 2020<br />

Philadelphia<br />

21 Adriana Lobel, Placeholders, i think, essay/poetics, 2020<br />

24 Dorlores Bartholomew, Planting Dreams, watercolor, ink, oil pastel, on cold press paper<br />

Wilmington, DE<br />

25 Sallie Aycock Marshall, Untitled<br />

26 Christine Belton, The Unseen City, redline research project<br />

28 Kristen Wong and Sarah Lesnikoski, #thisaintartschool, IG posts, 2020<br />

ANYWHERE, USA<br />

29 Nasir Young, En Route, oil on canvas, 12x12 in., 2020<br />

29 Nasir Young, Return Trip, oil on canvas, 6x6 in., 2020<br />

Philadelphia <br />

30 Isha Tripathi, Through the Darkness, ink on paper, 11x14in, 2020<br />

30 Isha Tripathi, Self Assurance, ink on paper, 11x14in, 2020<br />

30 Isha Tripathi, Entanglement 3, ink on paper, 11x14in, 2020<br />

30 Isha Tripathi, Entanglement 1, ink on paper, 11x14in, 2020<br />

Bay Area<br />

31 Kofi Perry, The Sculptor Installing a Shrine, Graphite on paper, 23x23 in., 2020<br />

32 Heather Palmer, A Funeral, poem, 2020<br />

32 Heather Palmer, Untitled, photograph, 2020<br />

33 Ashley Johnson, Studio Rubric, handwritten note, 8.5x11 in., 2020<br />

33 Ashley Johnson, The Soil Knows Me, oil on paper mounted on panel, 22x30 in. 2020<br />

Bremerton, WA<br />

34 Cameron Bunting, Sun, oil on canvas, 9x12, 2020<br />

Bay Area<br />

35 Dolores Bartholomew, Disregard of Science: Drowned, UV ink on plexiglass, 9x11 in.<br />

36 Yee Li, Untitled, acrylic on wood, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

Los Angeles<br />

37 Mary Beth Drabiszczak, Flowers, poem, 2020<br />

37 Mary Beth Drabiszczak, Dandelion, oil on panel, 5x7 in., 2020<br />

Milwaukee, Wisconsin<br />

38 Abbey Lakey, Cyclical, image transfer on handmade paper, 2020<br />

39 Heather Palmer, Mid-century Modern, poem, 2020<br />

40 Sarah Butler, Engulfed, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 16x17in, 2020<br />

40 Sarah Butler, Folkloric Fern, acrylic on paper, 12x12in, 2020<br />

40 Sarah Butler, Garden Variety II, acrylic on paper mounted on high gloss paper, 8.5x11in, 2020<br />

40 Sarah Butler, Garden Variety II, acrylic on paper mounted on high gloss paper, 8.5x11in, 2020<br />

Philadelphia, PA<br />

41 Matthew Pring, Every 100 Years?, digital, 6x9 ft., 2020<br />

41 Matthew Pring, Hopeful in Isolation, digital, 5x6 ft., 2020<br />

Center Valley, PA<br />

42 Taylor Larsen, Spring-Fall 2020, oil on panel, 19x25 in.<br />

Philadelphia<br />

43 Adrian Lobel, Ferns grow and cotton traps..., mixed media drawing (charcoal, acrylic paint) and text<br />

(charcoal, acrylic, conte crayon)<br />

44 Sarah Lesnikoski, Hackman, live art (jpeg), cadmium and lead on glass/ inkjet print, chalk<br />

Wrocław/ Philadelphia <br />

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NOTES<br />

45 Marika Hackman, The One, lyrics, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

UK<br />

46 Marley Parsons, One Thing After Another, secondhand fabric, twine, sticks and turmeric, 8 ft., 2020<br />

Philadelphia<br />

47 Adriana Lobel, Goose Tales, poems, 2020<br />

48 Kristy From-Brown, Accident of Birth, poem<br />

48 Kristy From-Brown, Hairshirt, oil on canvas, 28x28 in.<br />

Huntsville, AL<br />

49 Christine Belton, Have a Piece of Fruit, Dirt, mod lodge, pen on watercolor paper, 22x30 in., 2020<br />

50 Louis Mazza, How to Make a Diptych, digital, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

50 Louis Mazza, How to Make a Photo Essay, digital, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

Media, PA<br />

51 Arti Struyanskiy, A New Era of Thought 1888-2020, polyester, 300x300x300cm, 2020<br />

51 Arti Struyanskiy, Supermassive Black Hole x2, pencils, relief prints and pastels on suspended canvas,<br />

340x155cm, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

Klimovsk, Russia-born, Vancouver-based<br />

52 Mikel Elam, Orb, Mixed media on canvas, 48x36 in., 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

Philadelphia <br />

53 Clint Jukkala, Afterglow, Oil on paper, 12x9 in., 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

Philadelphia <br />

54 Kate Moran, Rosebud, rosebud matches, 36 silver prints, open box 1.25x3.75x.50 in., 2020<br />

55 Kate Moran, Harriet, Inkjet print, 8x8 in., 2020<br />

Philadelphia<br />

56 Sherry Rossini, Ethereal Series, wax and text, 2020<br />

Philadelphia <br />

57 Peggy O’Donnell, A Lucid Dream, Assemblage of woods, clay, metal, 33x10x9 in., 2020<br />

Chesapeake Bay, MD<br />

58 Dori Miller, Thesis Excerpt, 2020<br />

58 Dori Miller, Imaginary Flower 80, Ink on archival paper, 9x6 in., 2020<br />

59 Dori Miller, Thesis Excerpt, 2020<br />

59 Dori Miller, Imaginary Flower 60, Ink on archival paper, 9x6 in., 2020<br />

Philadelphia <br />

60 Clint Jukkala, Attention Circuit, Oil on paper, 12x9 in., 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

60 Clint Jukkala, Disruption, Oil on linen, 40x30 in., 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

61 Cory Pigeon, Spring Garden Shooting, Oil painting, 3x2 ft., 2020<br />

61 Cory Pigeon, 2020 Sunrise, Mixed media, 5x8 ft., 2020<br />

62 Taylor Freeman, Pink Favelas, Digital model, 1920x1080 px, 2020<br />

Baltimore, MD<br />

63 Oskar Kalinowski, Untitled diptych, Krakow and Lublin, 2020<br />

Philadelphia and in flight <br />

64 Kristy From-Brown, Tears, poem<br />

64 Kristy From-Brown, Save Your Tears for Me and I’ll Put Them Back in Later, paper, encaustic medium, <br />

pipette, glass, 14x12 in.<br />

65 Kristy From-Brown, Savory, poem <br />

65 Kristy From-Brown, Haptic, filtered photograph of graphite drawing, 8x10 in.<br />

66 Daniel DeBlasio, The Heart of Havana, photograph<br />

Earth<br />

67 Tania Qurashi, When I spit a poppy grows there, Oil and acrylic on panel, 11x14 in., 2020<br />

New Jersey<br />

67 Riz Ahmed, Where You From, lyrics<br />

UK<br />

68 Nicole Irene Anderson, The Inevitable, Oil and graphite pencil on paper, 83x52 in., 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

68 Nicole Irene Anderson, No Ground Beneath Your Feet, Oil and graphite pencil on paper, 83x52 in., 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

Santa Rosa, CA<br />

69 Heather Palmer, Bird Ranch, poem, 2020<br />

70 Davery Veal, Untitled, Acrylic painting, 2<strong>01</strong>5<br />

71 Dominick Mays, Untitled diptych, jpeg, 2<strong>01</strong>5<br />

72 Cherisse Alcantara, Portals 1, 2, 3, mixed media on paper mounted on panel, 12x9 in., 2020<br />

72 Cherisse Alcantara, Portals 1, 2, 3, oil on canvas, 40x30 in., 2020<br />

Bay Area/ Philadelphia <br />

73 David Dempewolf, Quivering Surfaces, Watercolor animation, 2020<br />

Philadelphia<br />

74 Taylor Freeman, Lost at Sea, Digital model, 1920x1080 px, 2020<br />

75 Robert Ashley, It’s Easy, lyrics from Dust, 1998<br />

76 K. Malcolm Richards, Dream Letters, video stills, 1997<br />

Philadelphia <br />

79 Sarah Lesnikoski, Bile Abide, La Brea tar, oil and turpentine in a pink, glass bottle, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

80 Charmaine Koh, Cloud Down, 48x48 in.<br />

Bay Area<br />

81 Kirsten Brehmer, For Protection, jpeg, 2020<br />

Bay Area<br />

82 Adriana Lobel, Goose Tales, poems, 2020<br />

84 Sarah Lesnikoski, Cue the Impossible, Oil on paper, 3x5 in. each, 2020<br />

87 Maggie Delaney, Diary Entry, Embroidery on leaf, ceramic, 10 in., 2020<br />

88 Laura Hawley, PAFALah, Advice column, 2020<br />

Philadelphia <br />

90 Marco Roth, “Epilogue for a Way of Life”, n+1 Journal: Spring 2020<br />

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<strong>Brute</strong> <strong>Reason</strong> is the 1st <strong>issue</strong> of<br />

an art journal run by students at<br />

Pennsylvania Academy of the<br />

Fine Arts<br />

Edited by <br />

Sarah Lesnikoski<br />

Many thanks to: all the<br />

contributors, artists, authors,<br />

encouragers, and special thanks<br />

to the institutional support of<br />

PAFA<br />

Acknowledgments to the<br />

inspiring sources of journals n+1<br />

and F.R. David, as parts of this<br />

journal are mere mimics of their<br />

incredible work.<br />

Cover art: <br />

Sarah Lesnikoski, Cart/Horse,<br />

digital, 2020 <br />

Contributing editors<br />

Christine Belton <br />

Sarah Butler<br />

Sarah Lesnikoski<br />

Adriana Lobel<br />

Dori Miller<br />

Megan Richards<br />

Editorial concept & design<br />

Sarah Lesnikoski<br />

Founding editors <br />

Sarah Lesnikoski<br />

Christine Belton<br />

Managing editor <br />

Sarah Butler<br />

Key writers<br />

Adriana Lobel<br />

Heather Palmer<br />

email:<br />

lesnikoskisa@pobox.pafa.edu<br />

with any queries<br />

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<strong>01</strong>: BRUTE REASON, WINTER 2020<br />

Mark Grief, The Age of the Crisis of Man, 2<strong>01</strong>5<br />

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