Art and Photography
New Art for Issue 34! January 20, 2012.
This month we're showing off the deeply powerful and brilliantly detailed art of V.V. Saichek.
If you've been published with us and would like to share your art with the world, send an e-mail to katie@downdirtyword.com!
Last One Standing
Mombo Promise
Inside the Rain
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Angel Walking
V.V. Saichek writes of mental fantasies and how these passion plays effect and transform our daily practices and our view of the world. As a psychotherapist and writer, she developed the term Fictionation to explain how (internal dialogue,) story telling, sustains or distorts personal reality. The fictionalized tales we tell ourselves reflect our hopes, fears and desires, not necessarily what is, and form our very personalized existence. They help us sustain the “If” within life. This birthing of alternative self-perceptions, or “false”-selves is Fictionation in action. Ms. Saichek explores this up-ended, madly creative, continuous reworking of reality as a model in developing character and crafting stories with strange, dream-bound resonance.
