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A drawing of three poems pinned into the wall: each follows the structure for labeling insects in collections, with a species (or title) on one label and writing on a separate label. Clockwise from top left: New friend Late to the train there is a yellow bellied flicker on the sidewalk it hit the post office window i move it to the garden bed and sit with it a while S. Mark Shelf End of the season resinous polypore in my foraging bag it tastes like the water i squeeze out of it i collect it anyways S. Mark Go big! Fall 2021 spinning and lights soda spilling on the blacktop leaves the soles of my shoes distastefully sticky you laugh and smile but i look down and wish i was home S. Mark

Clockwise from top left: 1. An image taken from above of a pigeon sitting with its wings tucked in. 2. dissatisfaction and dis- continuity we lived alongside pigeons --let them slip from our fin-- gers 3. An image of a white pigeon with black spots with a pink, orange, and blue filter over it. The pigeon is facing away from the camera, standing on a patch of grass. 4. A grainy close-up image of a grey pigeon's head, looking down. 5. the birds make the noble choice to take us back under their wing coexistence and companionship are possible 6. An image of a black pigeon with small white spots with a pink and blue filter over it. The pigeon is facing away from the camera, standing on a patch of grass.

Image One: Black text on white/black background surrounds four panels. Reading left to right, up to down, panel one is of hands playing drums, panel two is of hands playing an electric guitar, panel three is of hands typing at a computer keyboard, and panel four is of three figures on a concert stage: a drummer, a guitarist, and a singer. Image Two: Contains two main panels. In panel one, the three figures are seen in greater detail: one man wears a fur-lined sleeveless jacket and a fedora, the middle man wears a large leather coat and blocks half their face with the collar, and the last man wears a large white shirt with a necklace. In panel two, the man in the white shirt sings into a microphone, his eyes gazing out to an unseen crowd.

This collage is in landscape orientation. The far right includes 2 greco-roman style white statues, one a standing nude of god poseidon holding a trident, the other an enrobed female figure holding a skull. There are many trees and tree branches, one image includes an old black car parked under a tree. There are neon colored architectural details. The color scheme is black based and over all very dark with some warm toned transparent images layered. There are red, light green and magenta pops of color. The upper left has red neon sign style text that reads "Oh my love," and the lower right has yellow-green neon sign style text that reads "What a mirror image we are!".

This collage is in portrait orientation. Off center to the bottom right is a stylized edited photo of a white woman with red hair wearing a green sleeveless blouse. A semi transparent image of the top half of the same woman's face is inverted and enters the composition from the top left, the shape of her long curly hair flowing over the top half of the image. The color scheme is purple, pink and orange in a gradient with pops of emerald green. Visual elements include a semi transparent inverted image of a vintage drive in restaurant, a semi transparent image of emerald green kitten heels, white heart shapes, a candy jar, 2 stylized film strips of photographs and purple paint brushstrokes. In the central upper space of the image is neon sign style text staggered and overlaid in green and the purple that reads "I thought you wanted to dance".

This collage is in portrait orientation. Centered at the top of the image is an inverted image of rainbow dippin' dots ice cream with a spoon emerging from the bowl to the right. Dippin' dots cascade down the center of the composition, some of them splashing into a blue swimming pool. The falling dippin' dots are in a spotlight. Textual elements of the image include pink neon sign style text that says, "Life could be a dream" located above the bottom left corner and purple neon sign style text that says, "They should call you sugar" in the top right corner. Visual elements from top to bottom include a garter snake, a semi transparent image of a rollercoaster, a variety of butterflies, and jars of candy. The entire image is very brightly colored and intensely saturated. The background is an edited image of a stone inlay design.

we hesitate to stray away from fixating ourselves to another person or dive in too fast too deep our heart sways with emotion fast commotion we fear heart break making affirmations around moonlit lakes hoping we don't have to endure another heartache obsessing over zodiac signs wondering compatibility you me mine i dont know the answer sounds like wine we dont let our headaches subside maybe its the sick part of our brain we feed when we love its too close to hate and greed jealousy love hate love healthy needs we dont fear being alone or maybe we do i can only speak for my own

Image Description: Graphic titled "Reality Check" that says "To continue, please enter the characters below:" with a box containing warped text over a grid that says "Is this really what I'm meant to be doing". Underneath is text that says "Longing for something different? Try a new state of being" and an empty text box and submit button.

Image Description: Page One: In the first sequence of panels, Theo is standing in a comic book store, holding a comic. The song "Bloodbuzz Ohio" by the Nationals is playing. The lyrics, "I still owe money, to the money, to the money I owe. I never thought about love when I thought about home" are written above his head. Theo thinks to himself, "Oh. It's that song you gave me." The second sequence of panels shows Theo submerged in water up to his shoulders. The water crashes around him with large waves at first, leaving him soaked. t's unclear if his face is wet from the ocean or from crying. Above this reads, "You were like an ocean, brimming with generosity." In the next sequence, Theo is tying his heart with duct tape. At first he gets the tape tightly around his heart, with some frustration, but feels pleased when the tape holds his anger back. However, in the last moment, his heart catches on fire and sets the tape on fire too. Above reads: "But you hurt me, and that anger hasn't receded." Page Two: The first sequence on page two shows nine images, with a small thought written above each image. The images include a manuscript, a paper tray of Popeyes shrimp, a glass bottle of Coca Cola, a record player spinning a vinyl, two movie tickets to the Gene Siskel, a FunkoPop still in the box, a DVD Star Wars movie, two dumplings shaped like pigs, and a pair of gamer headphones. The text above the objects reads: "I don't think I can forgive you. I don't think you would ask me to. I don't think either of us can admit why and where we hurt each other. Still, when I heard that song I was flooded by your kindness. I miss that. I miss you. I hope that part of you I loved lives on... even if I don't know them anymore." The second and final sequence on page two returns to Theo in the comic book shop. He looks away, like something off the page has caught his attention. Then, the comic book shop is empty and Theo is gone. The text above reads, "I wonder if you miss me... too."

Image Description: A girl sitting in a circular window with the words “kiss me” painted repeatedly over the image in red letters.

Image Description: Two pages. Each has a body of words aligned to the middle of the page, with outlines done in black marker or sharpie. On both pages, the basic details are identical: on the right and left, two humanoid figures hold their arms up towards the text. They appear vaguely angelic, with wings, multiple eyes on their bodies, and crowns of feathers. The top and bottom borders are of various eyes and teeth, connected by lines. On page one, the top and bottom borders are faded. On page two, the borders are flipped horizontally, and the figures are now faded out with the top and bottom borders being seen in full. Text Transcript: Darling Yaelin, this is Yixiao. "I have never left the sea." Means I am here, means we are here, means up to this present moment we have never left. Means the wave breaks the wave, the water meets the water. Why am I myself? But not you? Why am I not a force of nature? Why are we in this moment? Why haven't we left? Why do we keep returning? Water evaporates, and it becomes clouds and rain drops fall back again, A full circle. A circle is a loop without an end. A circle is the union of a straight line; with two ends, but never ending The first thought A creation. Wisdom pregnanting a thought. Why come back to a thought? Perennial knowledge means wisdom that comes back over and over, Repetitively enough, So thoughts are shared, Thoughts are exchanged, Thoughts that never left, Thoughts that collided, conjoined, and conflicted. Conflicting is also a form of unification. Into one Returning, back to the source Oneness. "The droplets fall on the surface of water, Creating ripples that move outwards." Emanation. It means to project, but why project outwards? It means to travel and move through the differences, it means to have differentiations Cells differentiate, Why do we have to have differentiations in creations? Epistrophe means the overflow of energy. When the energy starts to change, It creates lives, It creates all the possibilities, All the individuals, But they go back to the source reversion to the source. To the sea Bones turn into ashes. Why do we have to go back? And where should we go back to? When should we go back? We will ride the wave when “the lake is arriving." will l be engulfed in it? And never returning again, But always returning. As part of it. Why are we limited, trapped in time? Why can't the present be in the past and the future? Till when can I become you? Till when can we become us? The most scary and beautiful thing is to become something else. Is to imagine the future self, is to let the future haunt the present as a ghost, And when the present is being hunted, The future is with the present, They run in a circle, There is no end, They are no longer trapped in time. So is the past I heard about the story of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, he can recall and become a buffalo, and a hunter at the same time. He can bring so many moments together and so do I, Because I have my memories, I can imagine you sitting next to me, I think we are already becoming something else, something beyond human. everything becomes parts of everything else. Body to body, Thoughts to thoughts, Feelings to feelings, Actions and actions, Lives with lives, Flesh to flesh. Transmute, Transfigurate Transmigrate.