Art / Donna Vorreyer

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As a writer and a visu­al artist, I’m drawn to the way that peo­ple exist with­in land­scapes and inter­act with them. I’m also inter­est­ed in the way that stat­u­ary and sculp­ture immor­tal­ize and memo­ri­al­ize human beings. Plac­ing images of sculp­ture into imag­ined land­scapes brings those nat­ur­al and inter­nal worlds togeth­er for me. When I came across this image, a Lau­rana bust of Isabel­la of Aragon from the 15th cen­tu­ry, I was enam­ored with her expres­sion— a tired wari­ness, a know­ing deflec­tion. Plac­ing her in a dark lay­ered land­scape, cut with black insect con­trails, made her the per­fect cen­ter­piece for a know­ing and resigned Moth­er Earth. A plant with exposed roots cov­ers her mouth— both a silenc­ing and a word­less hope of blooming. 

Don­na Vor­rey­er cre­ates and writes in the Chica­go area where she hosts the online read­ing series A Hun­dred Pitch­ers of Hon­ey and is co-founder/ed­i­tor of Aster­ales: A Jour­nal of Arts & Let­ters. She is the author of Unrivered (2025), To Every­thing There Is (2020), Every Love Sto­ry is an Apoc­a­lypse Sto­ry (2016) and A House of Many Win­dows (2013), all from Sun­dress Pub­li­ca­tions. Her mixed media art has been fea­tured on the cov­er of her book Unrivered as well as in North Amer­i­can Review, Waxwing, Thim­ble Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine, Pit­head Chapel, Gone Lawn, The Boil­er, and oth­er jour­nals. You can find her at http://donnavorreyer.com