Photo and text by A.Sønju It is a hard place. You live on the same land for generations and never really know it. It can turn against you. Everything is under the weather, the weather will always win; it is a Big Sky. You can live there all your life and hike over every inch [...]
July 8, 2010
A High Con interview with Portland, OR artist Brittany Hanson, conducted by Sam Kulla Have you ever fallen asleep among wild animals, or awoken to find them around you? If not, where is the wildest place you have slept as peacefully as the girl in this picture sleeps on the pink bear? I haven’t fallen [...]
May 14, 2010
by Tully Thibeau Being the voice of my generation would be pretty cool, I always thought, until last night, that is, as I watched some seemingly well-intentioned film documentary of the life and time of Mr. Jack Kerouac upon his production of the piece he entitled Big Sur. Jesus, man, for me it turned becoming [...]
April 18, 2010
by Mandy Wiebe This photo was taken in the mountains of Wyoming. It had just rained and the retreating storm clouds were reflecting in the little reservoir. Everything around me and in me was filled with tension; emotionally, physically, naturally. But, I looked out onto the water and I saw the reflection of the sky- [...]
April 1, 2010
An interview with Christos Hamawi, a painter in the South End of Boston, about his recent community arts endeavor painting utility boxes around Boston for the Boston Art Commission’s “Paintbox” program. In the words of the Boston Art Commission: “The PaintBox program, organized by the Boston Art Commission, is geared towards the recognition and celebration of [...]
March 21, 2010
A Special Announcement from the Agents & Editors of High Contrast Review We are proud to announce, after months of collecting content and designing High Contrast Review Volume 1, we are almost ready to print it. We’ve been working hard to make sure that we are on top of every aspect involved with this process. [...]
March 3, 2010
Story by Oriana Turley, Photos by Caroline McCarty Twenty eight year old Jonathan Marquis stands amid brightly colored paintings, scraps of comic book characters and cups of paint. He is finishing up what will be an eight piece show that will take place March 5th, and again on April 2nd, at the Ceretana Gallery on [...]
July 11, 2010