Ava Pecora is an eighteen-year-old painter and printmaker from Ashley, Ohio. She has been attending Interlochen Arts Academy for visual arts for the past four years. She has won 22 Scholastic regional awards and 1 Scholastic national award. Her work revolves around breaking norms and taking the power back, particularly involving her many years in…

Ava Pecora is an eighteen-year-old painter and printmaker from Ashley, Ohio. She has been attending Interlochen Arts Academy for visual arts for the past four years. She has won 22 Scholastic regional awards and 1 Scholastic national award. Her work revolves around breaking norms and taking the power back, particularly involving her many years in…

I often pierce frozen soil to dig up some past  As I stomp my feet to blaze a trail for some present  The choir of crying voices demanding rights  Never leaves me. I plunge head first into my slimy lowest lows  When walls zoom in, hissing that there’s no point to my trying.  Constantly crossing…

current machination leaves no stone unturned. its breadth collapses perceived borders acknowledged as figment, to calm when closeness reminds the body of previous afflictions. scenes drift by dirge-like; perpetual requiem for sacrifice made to no witness, only this cold distance worn well, despite the warmth of life, perpetually undefined. Jovanni Dwojak is a teacher and…

caught wind on a backtrack; simplified instinct immolates idle spirit savior complex. despite the weather, this mothen desire to elicit burns eternal. creation without principle occupies until doom subsumes another season. divinity rest  in passing glances; silent salvation from this forever feeling stranded. what’s here to strive for distorts the end result. reward no longer…