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"Ghost Town, USA" by Christopher Luna

 
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I admit that I’m biased. I have been a fan of Christopher Luna’s poetry for years and I have high expectations, particularly since I know how dedicated he is- not only to the craft but to the communities that can be formed and nurtured around creative work.

Ghost Town, USA refers to the poet’s town of Vancouver, Washington, a town in the shadow of the infamous Portland. The name comes from his first impressions of the town- a place without people, even in the middle of the afternoon. For a transplanted New Yorker, this can be unsettling, and for a poet like Christopher Luna who writes from a place so rooted in observations of the tangible, one can imagine how difficult it must have been in the beginning as he struggled to get used to the silence. Continue reading →

Christopher Luna: Collage, Full of Crow Galleries

 
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Christopher Luna: Collage, in Full of Crow Galleries. “Revved -Up Revisionists”

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Revved-Up Revisionists

Revved-Up Revisionists

Christopher Luna is one of the featured artists for 2009 in the Full of Crow Galleries, a virtual showcase for artists of diverse backgrounds working with mixed media and formats: mail art, collage, digital art, photography, vispo, graphic art.

Luna’s art shares elements with his poetry: pop culture icons, the juxtaposition of text and celebrities and symbols and at times- some pretty unlikely combinations that intrigue and perplex.

A follower of his art and poetry would recognize immediately that he returns in these pieces, as always, to the role of observer and recorder, witness and messenger through positioning and context. Consider Spacious Interior: Two figures are facing the couple, observing them. Two faces, perhaps perceiving the couple in different ways. They are different faces, in scale and presentation. They both face the couple- what are they saying about space, about relationships, about intimacy and the ways people can be close, yet maintain boundaries in their spaces? The larger face looks down, looming with glasses, almost to evoke the silent observer of The Great Gatsby in the Wasteland scenery, who serves as an omniscient-type critic.(Continued) Continue reading →