Erica Podwoiski’s work invites viewers into quiet, contemplative moments with the natural world. Using cyanotype, one of the oldest forms of camera-less photography, she combines drawing with found objects to capture life at a standstill. Her pieces reflect on the cycles of seasons, decay and renewal, and the subtle beauty of ephemeral life.

Jana Astanov’s art spans performance, installation, photography, sound, and writing, creating immersive experiences that connect audiences to ancestral memory, ritual, and the cosmos. Drawing on trance, astrology, and Slavic and Baltic folk traditions, her work invites participants into ceremonial spaces where art becomes a conduit for spiritual inquiry, relational healing, and collective transformation.

In this contemplative feature, Nancy L. McCourt examines aging as both a personal and cultural experience, questioning societal norms while drawing inspiration from nature’s cycles. Her reflections embrace the realities of time, mortality, and what it means to live with intention in life’s later seasons.

Based in Joshua Tree on unceded Cohuilla/Serrano land, Corinna Rosella creates immersive works that blend analog photography, collage, and pressed flora. Their art examines grief, ecological awareness, magic, and ancestral connections, inviting viewers to witness unseen rituals, cycles of death and rebirth, and the quiet power of transformation in everyday life.

For over four decades, Beamie Young has captured the visual world through photography, blending black-and-white film techniques with modern digital processes. From textures and reflections to double exposures and compositing, Beamie’s work invites viewers to explore light, pattern, and time in unexpected ways. Discover a career dedicated to the art of seeing and storytelling through the lens.

Jenny Carrillo’s ongoing series, Reflections, invites viewers into a journey of healing and self-discovery. Through still life photography, traditional in-camera methods, and carefully crafted compositions, she captures the rawness of trauma, the beauty of transformation, and the quiet power of stillness. Each limited edition print serves as both art and reflection, connecting deeply to personal and universal experiences of resilience.

Working in digital photography, this York, Pennsylvania–based artist combines architectural layering, collage, and personal imagery to create emotionally resonant impressions of memory, identity, and transformation.

Alexis McKeown’s studio photography challenges viewers to confront the intimate conflicts behind everyday experiences. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her FIGURING series combines self-portraiture, still life, and classical lighting techniques with humor and vulnerability, inviting dialogue around food, identity, and personal reflection.

RMD’s photography transforms the ordinary into the mystical, capturing moments where spirit, presence, and intuition converge. Featured in Create! Magazine’s upcoming The Spirit World exhibition, her work invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect with the unseen layers of life. Through soulful imagery, RMD offers a meditation on love, magic, and the interconnectedness of all things.

Mehgann Maiellano’s work captures the delicate balance between humor and eeriness. Through photography and mixed media, she places ghostly figures in rural landscapes, inviting viewers to reflect on memory, solitude, and the uncanny in familiar places. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Maiellano’s art transforms ordinary settings into spaces of mystery, wonder, and quiet unease.

Lauren Davies blends photography, sculpture, and textiles to investigate the hidden histories and layered narratives of place. From abandoned Rust Belt factories to haunted mansions, her experimental works merge archival research with striking materiality and ironic perspective. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Davies’ art evokes the mystical, eerie, and uncanny while proposing new ways of seeing personal, cultural, and institutional histories.

Amalia Romp, a New York native now based in Los Angeles, is a multidisciplinary artist and set designer whose work spans papier-mâché sculpture, avant-garde tableaux portraits, and immersive storytelling. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her art draws on surrealism, expressionism, circus motifs, and global cultures, creating fantastical worlds that invite viewers into her imaginative process. From brainstorming to building, photographing, and editing, Amalia handles every stage of creation herself, crafting deeply personal and visually striking works.

Carolyn Hampton, artist, psychic medium, and entertainment attorney from Los Angeles, channels her spiritual gifts into deeply personal fine art. Her “Childhood Dreams & Memories” series, created in collaboration with her daughter, draws on visions, memories, and spirit encounters to explore trauma, intimacy, and symbolic meaning. Carolyn’s work has been exhibited worldwide, published in books, magazines, and album covers, and continues to expand into painting and her “Constructed Fairytales” photo series inspired by myth and folklore.

Jiaqi (Chi) Pan creates portraits that examine how identity is shaped by social dynamics, gender, race, and class. Her work balances intimacy and distance, turning collaboration with strangers into a reflective study of human interaction and perception.

Jada + David Parrish are a Richmond-based artist duo whose mixed media practice merges painting, sculpture, motion, and photography into dreamlike illusions. Known for their 100 Set Project—where they built and photographed 100 sets from repurposed materials in a single year—their work explores perspective, uncertainty, and the human condition.

Lilian Day Thorpe’s photomontage work blends film photography with digital collage to create serene, textural landscapes that hover between memory and imagination. Her compositions prioritize mood over realism, offering a pause from the everyday and a space to reflect on beauty, quiet, and stillness.

Corinne Ann Bowen’s analog photography transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Through shadow, light, and subtle gestures, her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and honor the small, sacred moments often overlooked in daily life

Vanessa Wenwieser’s photography and digital art places women at the center of imagination, capturing vulnerability, intuition, and emotional depth. Featured in the “Lightness of Being” exhibition, her work invites viewers to witness the transcendent and the sublime through intimate, imaginative portrayals of the female form.

Vancouver Island-based photographer Bri Vandyke presents her atmospheric, abstract seascapes in the Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Using Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), she translates the rhythm, light, and emotion of the coast into evocative imagery that invites quiet reflection. Vandyke’s work transforms landscapes into experiences, capturing both the seen and the felt in a meditative exploration of nature’s quiet power.

Michael Potts, a photographer based in Arizona, presents his minimalist and evocative work in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Focusing on water, light, and introspective moments, Potts’ images explore renewal, healing, and the journey toward discovering one’s true self. His work invites viewers to witness the transformation from darkness to light and reflect on their own paths of emergence and growth.