Inspiration

Eva Avenue grapples with climate change anxiety and visualizes the world becoming healthy again in her painting inspired by Thomas Hart Benton’s “Instruments of Power.”

For the first time ever, you don’t have to drag your body down to 57th Street to study at the Art Student League of New York. You can take live classes online — no application required — at this world-famous art school in the heart of Manhattan.

Southwestness publisher/editor Samatha Anne Carrillo shares the worldview and inspirations that drive her work: “In the real world, facts exist and science is real. … Since Southwestness is my own site, I have the freedom to report on our corner of the world based on my own perception of the world. There’s no question that this perception is still evolving and thank goodness for that!”

Our current background image is “Penrose Substitution” by Jared Tarbell. Tarbell is a generative artist who explores the life-like emergent qualities of generative systems.

For the last few years, I kept checking for accessible foreign editions of some of these books. I reached out directly to Reza Dalvand, the illustrator of Ace, who put me in touch with his publisher in Iran.