Trevor Coopersmith creates painted objects, installations and organic wall-sculptures utilizing found and mixed media that emphasize a deeper emotional connection to nature.

I never imagined being in the same category as Chrissy Teigen, Kim Kardashian, or Tan France. Nor could I have dreamed of someone else carrying and birthing my child. I’ve never aspired to celebrity culture or cared much about it, but alas, when my fertility doctor suggested pursuing surrogacy as my most viable path to parenthood, I began my journey into what I thought was the seemingly unattainable life of the rich and famous.

Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, songwriter, and teacher. He shares with us two poems that feel right for Issue #4–Carry: “At the Winter Solstice” and “How to Survive.”

As an interdisciplinary artist, Kwamé Azure Gomez investigates their internal and external self and community through their practice. Meditating on the Black interior and how Blackness transcends space, Gomez explores the soul's essence, divination, daily life, temporality, psychics, and human nature through painting, video, assemblage, and writing.

Yanan Rahim Navarez Melo crafts an op-ed article arguing for us to rethink our orientation around land ownership, calling for a theology of land. Regardless of religious or spiritual orientation, Melo’s essay reminds us that no thing exists without the earth. How might we reshape our thoughts and practices to reorder the land as sacred in our lives?

Frida Braide is a Scandinavian-born photographer and author based in Brooklyn, New York. She explores urban landscapes, architectural structures, and untouched accidental sculptures in those environmental settings.

Joliene Adams writes a journal entry-like essay processing the grief of losing her father, undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments, and observing the changing climate along the Oregon Coast Trail.

​Rachel Kalman is an observational still-life painter with a commitment to close-looking and foundational skills that guide her practice. She believes there is an ethic to observational painting in the sense that meaningful exchange occurs between painter and subject without any need for possession or ownership.

Kuan-Ya Wu is an installation artist based in San Francisco, California. Her research involves conversations about finding safe spaces and the idea of security and insecurities.

Anabel Hadad is a painter and interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. The figures in her work exist among their lingering perceptions, taking on anthropomorphic forms.

Aleena Sharif’s work focuses on oil painting and almost exclusively nude female figures. The overall scaffolding behind her work is confronting negative connotations around the female body and body image.

In life, failure is always an option. However, failure is not synonymous with the end.

Cheyann Washington is a painter from Los Angeles, California. Represented by Wonzimer Gallery for the last two years, Washington's personal studies encapsulate the essence of human behavior and the figure as it mirrors nature.

Among the 95+ galleries showcasing artist’s work, we took the time to find some artists who weren’t taking themselves too seriously. Here they are, ranked in no particular order.

Intertwined within this conversation are reflections on the complex emotions that emerge from pregnancy loss and birth experiences, the wisdom of the body, trusting the body, and our culture’s poor grasp on what it means to grieve.

Anna Kohlweis is an interdisciplinary artist merging writing, painting, music, fiber art, sculpture, video, and illustration.

Ava Mahtab is a writer and doctor from Saudi Arabia. She composes poetry, articles, and short stories inspired by nature and her work experiences.

Space On Space had a studio visit with Jennifer Remenchik to learn more about her practice, and this interview is what surfaced.

FYVP is an apparel brand. Our designs make statements and open conversations. They amplify the call for Palestinian liberation, refugee rights, and LGBTQ+ equality.