« back  |   about ink & ashes  |   current issue  |   past issues  |   submission guidelines  |   contact  |   text size ( S : M : L )  
   
  volume 1. issue one  
 
Feature
My Skin, My Sanity
by Kat Duff

When I turned fifty, the only scar on my body was the thin trace of an incision on my right thumb where a doctor removed a sliver when I was nine (more...)
POETRY
Jada Ach
Ana Arredondo
Kristy Bowen
Julie R. Enszer
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Charlie Newman
Margo Roby
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Kat Duff
Peggy Duffy
Jackson Lassiter
REVIEW/INTERVIEW
Maureen Seaton's
Venus Examines Her Breast
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jacob Knabb
Fides J. Proctor
Anna Ressman
Shawn Sargent
PRINT EDITION
Click here to download
our print edition in
Adobe Acrobat format
MAILING LIST
Subscribe and stay informed on new issue releases, submission calls, and literary events.

Cleansing
by Shawn Sargent





Isolation
by Shawn Sargent





Lemon
by Shawn Sargent





Within
by Shawn Sargent





Prayer
by Shawn Sargent





Artist, writer, and educator, Shawn Sargent worked professionally in various fields prior to beginning her studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Primarily, she was a freelance image editor, she taught private art lessons, and she managed a self-owned business. Her goal of fostering an awareness of everyday surroundings, human interactions, and the spaces in which they exist brought her to the School of the Art Institute in Chicago two years ago, where she earned her degree in Visual and Critical Studies.

Shawn records the subtleties of daily experiences. Her detached observation and heightened sensitivity uncovers both the fragility and permanence of spaces, emotions, and interactions, to reveal the sensual tactility and humanness of ordinary moments that are often overlooked. She uses architectural elements to make evident the tensions and harmony between private and public, self and other, connection and isolation.

Currently, Shawn works on collaborative projects for a local government organization and helps educate children through creative and academic tutoring. She exhibits nationally, and since moving to Chicago has published several articles and works of non-fiction.
Print Page