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commentary and images by gmb chomichuk
published 21 february 2008
 
portrait of the artist | volume 1 • number 5
 
"Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of, but, nevertheless, sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance." -Henri Matisse
 
published since April 2007 | Portrait of the Artist showcases the work of compelling contemporary visualists.
 
 
GMB Chomichuk (eMail • Web site • MySpace page) is a writer, artist, and founder of Alchemical Press, in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Western Canada). He is a proponent of illustrated, sequential, novel-length stories that are equal parts prose and picture. Current creative endeavors include: working as art director on two feature film projects with Absurd Machine Films, CD design and art direction with the band Tele, and writing/illustrating two novel-length projects for Alchemical Press. GMB has been part of the TBA staff since May 2007.
 
 
 

 
 
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The Art of Fiction (Peter Quinones)
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reports about the London arts scene and design
 
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book criticism
 
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a passionate survey of food and cooking
 
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creative writing
 
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Fiction is the Hyphen. The link between what can be and what is. In some cases, it's longer than others. In some, it's barely visible, a speck-link of a wafer of technology that doesn’t exist, or a slipshod bit of history crammed in to make things more interesting. And, yes, I’m, mixing metaphors, because that’s something else all fiction does. It stirs up all the symbols and images of past and place, of time and location. The hyper-real.
 
If our fiction makes us real, then our imaginations imagine us. There are two sides. There are two times. A time for what is real, and a time for what is true. When the real world ended, the true world was all that was left.
 
These IMAGINATION MANIFESTOs can be read in any order, but all of them collide against a place where things we believe in have started to believe in us.
 
 

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