Deep Dive Art Projects partnered with Abattoir Gallery in 2021 to publish two soft-ground etchings by internationally-known artist and curator Michelle Grabner, connecting to a new series of paintings shown at the gallery last June. The limited editions evoke a sense of nostalgia and surface memory and expand upon the craft and intimate gestures of the related oil and enamel paintings on linen. Deep Dive and Abattoir join to present a special exhibition of the small works, along with the debut of the newly-published prints, on Friday, March 18, at the Deep End.

Opening April 1 for National Poetry Month, Deep Dive Art Projects and Michael Loderstedt, director of Photocentric, join forces to present SNAP, a collection of unique anonymous photographs paired with ekphrastic poems written by some of northeast Ohio’s best writers. A poetry reading co-sponsored by Deep Dive Art Projects and Photocentric will be presented on Friday, May 6, at Blue Windmill on Waterloo Road.

 

LUMINOUS

In one day of freedom, I fell hard

for the earth. A singular journey

inhabited in a girl as alive

as the sun. That day, she & I

rode the sky as one, in a gown

 

of heat & light, with small five-pointed

versions of my kin affixed in a crown

radiating warmth across lands

as ancient as my home. In some ways,

her body, & that of the earth, are not

 

unlike mine — a container

of molecules meant to shine,

with a shell she called skin & I called

the closest thing to breathing.

She gifted me her smile, luminous

 

as the age of my birth, when gravity

collapsed at my center, fusing hydrogen

with helium, a source of life I will share

with the dark until my final cooling.

At the day’s end, the girl asked

 

to go with me, to see for herself

the story of our stars, to find reason

for her existence. There is no need,

I said, as I pressed my soft light against

hers, waking the scatter of stories

 

magnificent in their glow.

–– Shei Sanchez

 

Shei Sanchez is a Filipina-American writer, photographer, and teacher from Jersey City, New Jersey. Her pieces have appeared in Sheila-Na-Gig online, Gyroscope Review, Sepia Journal and Dissonance Magazine. She lives with her partner on a farm in Appalachian Ohio.

 

KATE SNOW: JOURNAL| FEBRUARY 4–MARCH 12

MICHELLE GRABNER: NEW EDITION | MARCH 18–MARCH 26

SNAP | APRIL 1–MAY 22
POETRY READING AT BLUE WINDMILL (ACROSS THE STREET) 6-7:30PM FRIDAY, MAY 6

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