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METAMORPHOSIS VOL 6 MAY 2022

ABSTRUSE TONES METAMORPHOSIS BLAKE BARRON 22 A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS METAMORPHOSIS VERB THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE YOUNG FORM DEVELOPS INTO THE MATURE FORM OR SOMETHING ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT THE TERM SIGNIFIES A PHYSICAL CHANGE BUT ALSO RELATES TO INNER TRANSFORMATION IN THIS SIXTH VOLUME OF ARTICULATION ART LITERARY MAGAZINE THE READER WILL REVEL IN CREATIVE WORKS FROM VCHS STUDENTS AND FACULTY RANGING FROM DRAWING PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY POETRY TO METAL FORGING EACH PIECE IN THESE PAGES SPEAKS TO A SENSE OF RENEWAL AS EACH ARTIST AND WRITER SEEKS TO SHARE THEIR IDENTITY THROUGH THEIR CREATIONS IF YOU LET PEOPLE S PERCEPTIONS OF YOU DICTATE YOUR BEHAVIOR YOU WILL NEVER GROW AS A PERSON PERHAPS METAMORPHOSIS MAY ENCOURAGE US TO ASSESS OUR SENSE OF SELF WHO WE ARE AND WHO WE WANT TO BE THIS COULD NOT BE MORE RELEVANT DUE TO THE EVER CHANGING WORLD AROUND US BLAKE BARRON 22 LET THIS MAGAZINE BE AN OUTLET FOR THE ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE IN ALL OF US A WAY TO ARTICULATE WITHIN THESE PAGES CREATIVITY CAN FIND THE FREEDOM TO ESCAPE THE CHRYSALIS AVA GARRISON 23

SISOHPROMATEM 66 LLOOVV NNOOIITTAALLUUCCIITTRRAA COVER Purposeful Accidents 35mm Film Patricia Zhang 23 Metamorphosis Drawing Patricia Zhang 23 Editor s Note Blake Barron 22 Ava Garrison 23 01 Open Your Mind Ava Garrison 23 02 Equidistant Feelings 33mm Film Patrica Zhang 23 03 Drifting To The Surface Charlotte Halk 23 04 Forgotten Trail Carly Keyes 24 A Break In The Day Juliet Studness 24 05 Photo by Carly Keyes 24 Poem by Mrs Andrea Juskaitis 06 High Trashion Mrs Heidi Cofelice A Buzz Through Time Audrey Deck 22 07 Nature s Symmetry Ava Garrison 23 08 Opposites Attract Gracie Allen 22 09 Miscategorized Mrs Heidi Cofelice 10 Amendable Blake Barron 22 Letting it Go Ava Chester 24 11 The Long Flight of Stairs Nicholas Hornbostel 23 Poem by Orion Adelman 22 12 Tearful Lily 35mm Film Mrs Heidi Cofelice Poem by Jillian Lee 23 13 Doe in the Tall Grass Mrs Heidi Cofelice 14 Wings of Faith Carly Keyes 24 Forgotten Times Blake Barron 22 15 Epiphanic Theia Greshko 24 16 Calm After the Storm Kylie Kirkham 25 Time is an Illusion Jillian Lee 23 17 Scorpion Sting Sutton Dodds 24 Unseasoned Audrey Deck 22 Bee Kind Theia Greshko 24 18 Stitched and Silenced Blake Barron 22 19 Loxodonta Africana Theia Greshko 24 20 Beneath the Surface Theia Greshko 24 21 Vulnera bowl Ava Garrison 23 Fermentation Patricia Zhang 23 22 Underbelly Maggie Rothenberg 24 23 The Answer is Not in the Words Jillian Lee 23 METAMORPHOSIS Ava Garrison 23 24 Leather Work Landen Schmidt 23 25 Forged Malcolm Osborn 25 26 The Caterpillar Jillian Lee 23 A Mix of Mountains Rebecca Florez 24

OPEN YOUR MIND AVA GARRISON 23 ARTICULATION PAGE 01

ARTICULATION PAGE 02 EQUIDISTANT FEELINGS 35MM FILM PATRICIA ZHANG 23

CHARLOTTE HALK 23 ARTICULATION PAGE 03 DRIFTING TO THE SURFACE

FORGOTTEN TRAIL CARLY KEYES 24 ARTICULATION PAGE 04 A BREAK IN THE DAY JULIET STUDNESS 24

MRS A N D R E A JUSKAITIS inspired by William Wordsworth Photo by CARLY KEYES 24 ARTICULATION PAGE 05 The ocean swells then it falls The ocean swells then it falls An open gate amongst these walls The sun advances on the stone Ensorcelled I stand alone And the ocean swells then it falls The brisk air wanes and takes my hand As I look back and understand That darkness makes it hard to see But I settle into what will be And the ocean swells then it falls My dreams so gently coax me to go And if I stay I ll never know Reluctant but prepared to be led I turn toward what lies ahead And the ocean swells then it falls

HIGH TRASHION MRS HEIDI COFELICE ARTICULATION PAGE 06 A BUZZ THROUGH TIME AUDREY DECK 22

NATURE S SYMMETRY AVA GARRISON 23 ARTICULATION PAGE 07

ARTICULATION PAGE 08 OPPOSITES ATTRACT GRACIE ALLEN 22

MRS HEIDI COFELICE ARTICULATION PAGE 09 MISCATEGORIZED

AMENDABLE BLAKE BARRON 22 Stop Judging yourself for not being where you think you re supposed to be Stop Judging yourself for not doing what you think you re supposed to do Stop judging yourself for not being who you think you re supposed to be You are here now Allow yourself to be here fully and experience what life has to offer What it really means to be ALIVE ARTICULATION PAGE 10 LETTING IT GO AVA CHESTER 24

T H E L O N G F L I G H T O F S T A I R S NICHOLAS HORNBOSTEL 23 ORION ADELMAN 22 ARTICULATION PAGE 11 Moving about in the branches of influence growing signs of clear release and over excitement perpetually dial people s memory of the long flight of stairs

TEARFUL LILY 35MM FILM MRS HEIDI COFELICE ARTICULATION PAGE 12 SHE USED TO WONDER HOW PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO MOVE ON FASTER THAN OTHERS HOW HER TRAUMA COMPARED TO YOURS HOW THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TOOK FOR HER TO CHANGE MEASURED UP TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS AS IF SHE WERE A FLOWER HER LEAVES WERE SMALLER MORE FRAGILE THAN THE REST HER COLOR MUCH PALER AND MORE FADED AS SHE STARED AT THE GARDEN SURROUNDING HER THE BEAUTIFUL SHADES OF WINE AND RUBY ALL SHE COULD FEEL WAS DISSATISFACTION AND BY THE TIME SHE BEGAN TO WITHER WHEN IT WAS ALL TOO LATE SHE FINALLY REALIZED SHE WAS TRYING TO GROW LIKE A ROSE WHEN SHE WAS SIMPLY A LILY AND WHEN HER HEAD WAS TURNED LOOKING AT THOSE RED PETALS SHE MISSED THE SUN ENTIRELY AND WATCHED AS HER ANGELIC WHITE COAT FELL TO THE FLOOR GROWTH LOOKS DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE JILLIAN LEE 23

MRS HEIDI COFELICE ARTICULATION PAGE 13 DOE IN THE TALL GRASS

WINGS OF FAITH CARLY KEYES 24 FORGOTTEN TIMES BLAKE BARRON 22 The impossible thing about last times is that all too often they slip by unnoticed like a precious jewel through a storm drain How can we be sure which time will be the last How do we know which goodbyes are truly endings Oftentimes as a child I mistook dragonflies for fairies but I cannot seem to recall the last instance in which I saw an angel in an insect I suppose it s because every moment of false magic was just as wonderful and indiscernible as the last I wonder the very last tooth I lost was it a molar or a canine What was the last word of the last book my mother read aloud to me When did you last hold my cheeks in your hand ARTICULATION PAGE 14 If I had known such lovely customs would never occur again I would ve stared harder at that last dragonfly studied the last tooth held onto the last word memorized the feeling of your palms on my face I would ve memorized it all But the cracks in my consciousness have swallowed up my pictures of the past and all I am left with is a collection of unfinished stories of jewels drowned in sewers of forgotten last times

THEIA GRESHKO 24 ARTICULATION PAGE 15 EPIPHANIC

CALM AFTER THE STORM KYLIE KIRKHAM 25 Old is the word used for things in the past But in the past I was young My young feelings My young experiences Happened simultaneously with moments Of someone else s old So with this paradox How can we expect to keep track of time under the same sun time is an illusion JILLIAN LEE 23 ARTICULATION PAGE 16

THEIA GRESHKO 24 ARTICULATION PAGE 17 BEE KIND AUDREY DECK 22 UNSEASONED SUTTON DODDS 24 SCORPION STING

ARTICULATION PAGE 18 STITCHED AND SILENCED BLAKE BARRON 22

THEIA GRESHKO 24 ARTICULATION PAGE 19 LOXODONTA AFRICANA

BENEATH THE SURFACE ARTICULATION PAGE 20 THEIA GRESHKO 24

VU F LN M R E ER A B R OWL R A G AVA N O IS PATRICIA N O I ZH AT AN T N G E 3 2 2 3 ARTICULATION PAGE 21

ARTICULATION PAGE 22 UNDERBELLY MAGGIE ROTHENBERG 24

WHEN SOMEONE SHOOTS A BULLET THERE IS NO TIME TO WATCH IT IN MOTION THE SURROUNDINGS ARE SCANNED THE EYE IS FOCUSED THE TRIGGER IS PULLED WE PLAN THE BEGINNING WE WAIT FOR THE END RESULT AND FOR SOME REASON WE ALWAYS TRY TO HEAR WHAT PEOPLE SAY WHEN IT IS THE THOUGHTS AND THE REACTIONS THAT COUNT THE ANSWER IS NOT IN THE WORDS JILLIAN LEE 23 ORNINGS BRING ABOUT CHANGE SO DO NDINGS BUT WHAT ABOUT IME IT CAN MAKE US INTO BETTER PEOPLE SHIFT FROM CURIOUS TO COURAGEOUS EMORIES THAT ARE MADE REALITY PTIMISM BRANCHING FROM OMINOUS EACHING GROWING CHANGING LANTING A BRAND NEW SEED INSTEAD OF OVERING OVER WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN PEN THE DOOR TO LET LOST LIGHT LOOSE ILENCE THE MIND AND N TIME OMETHING MUST CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AVA GARRISON 22 ARTICULATION PAGE 23 M E T A M O R P H O S I S

LEATHER WORK LANDEN SCHMIDT 23 ARTICULATION PAGE 24

Left Pair of forged knives using salvaged railroad spikes with leather wrap handles Right Mirror polished salvaged railroad spike Below Pocket knife with pinion pine handle Leather sheath made by Landen Schmidt FORGED MALCOLM OSBORN 25 Forged steel ring created from a salvaged square nut ARTICULATION PAGE 25 Forged tomahawk with walnut and oak wood layered handle etched letter M Created with salvaged railroad scrap steel

THE CATERPILLAR DOESN T WAIT IT RESTS AND SO WILL I SIT IN THE COMFORT OF MYSELF UNTIL IT IS TIME TO REACH OUT AND SAY WORLD I AM HEALED JILLIAN LEE 23 ARTICULATION PAGE 26 A MIX OF MOUNTAINS REBECCA FLOREZ 24