Parnassus : Inter-arts magazine of Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Massachusetts 01900

44 Pages·2003·2.8 MB·English

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The policy of the editorial staff has been to select material for the magazine democratically.
We have read each work submitted and viewed all artwork.
We voted to determine eligibility: a majority vote for a piece meant publication.
Parnassus provides an opportunity for new artists and writers to reach others;
it's a showcase of Northern Essex Community College student creativity.
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Marie Soly
Front and Back Covers:
Marie Soly was both honored and surprised to hear that her work had been picked
for the cover of the Fall 2003 issue of Parnassus. She feels that the magazine is a
"great way to get people's work noticed." The cover piece was an assignment for
Terry Cargan's Illustration class, and while it looks like a storyboard, Marie claims
that each piece is actually a separate sketch that she discovered looked good dis-
played together. She likes the abstract images, choppy angles and comic book look
of the piece. Her work is inspired by artists like Klimt, Dali and Escher, as well as
graphic artists Milton Glaiser and Tanaka Ikko. Marie will graduate with a degree in
graphic art this spring and hopes to transfer to UMass Lowell or an art school in the
region where she will continue to study art because, as she says, "I love it."
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Front and Back Cover artwork Marie Soly
1 Parnassus Profile Marie Soly
2 Pen and Ink Rob Mendoza
4 Tree Joshua Therrien
4 photograph Hannah Bemelmans
5 Poppy.Seed Ian Wittenber Table
6 photograph Jamie Davidowicz
7 TeaDance Laura Fedele
7 computer illustration Alisha Anderson
8 Oh, thejoysofthe world... Wes Bitomski
11 pen and pencil illustration Laurel Gehly
12 photograph Meaghan Kountze of
13 Fairy Tale Bryan Burns-Fedele
14 MaryMarley metHarry Carrey.. Steve Meehan
14 pen and pencil illustration Peter Isherwood
1 5 photograph Frankie Cappabianca
16 photograph Jillian Harlow
7 Across theRoom Laura Fedele
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18 Willy Larry Smith
18 wood block artwork Yinette Guzman
20 oil painting Natalie Russo
2 This Way Joshua Therrien
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22 Fluff’s Travels Anders Warringer Contents
22 computer illustration John Paynter
23 photograph Jillian Harlow
23 MarchMorning Jillian Harlow
24 My mindticks outoftime... Jenny Connolly
24 black and white graphic Rebbecca Flanders
25 A Season’sLife Hannah R. Creed
25 lam adrum, tip tap,... Jessica King
26 TheEternalChild Peter Isherwood
27 layered graphic Christian Dube
30 pencil drawing Yinette Guzman
30 Iam a mirror-... Catherine Credit
3 Corpse Tania Antoinette Gonzalez
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32 oil painting Adam Dorgan
33 A Stitch in Your Wound Jessica Campbell
34 photograph Jessica Lane
34 TheMartyrdom oftheSnow Valbona Lavdari
35 Kitten Companion to Crazy Cat Rebecca Aldrich
36 RaindropKisses Eric Gulifoyle
36 photograph Betsabel Soto
37 Highly up the Through andThrough Anthony Gan
38 Thefadedwords... Katie Hudak
38 photograph Melissa Horton
39 photograph Peter Sielicki
40 pencil illustration Jennifer Lena
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am planted here,
I
My leafy fingers stretched
Skyward, craving more space.
My base, my foothold
Roots down to hold me
Tree
Still in this resting place.
by Joshua Therrien
Standing, bark-covered arms
Trying to grab sunlight.
The energy that nourishes.
meditate, contemplate.
I
I ponder all things.
ponder nothing.
I
Hannah
Bemelmans
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POPPY.SEED
by Ian Wittenber
I generally try to avoid awkward situations. Ijust that nice girl* talking about world peace? But, if I didn't
don't Uke feeling awkward. I guess that is why someone mention the seed to her, she would go the rest ofthe day
came up with the word, awkward. Some one had the without knowing about this horrible seed weighing down
feeling ofbeing awkward, and decided to give a name to her entire existence. And at the end ofthe day, she will
their emotion. They came up with the word, and they brush her teeth, maybe it will be scraped out, maybe it
told it to someone else. Then, maybe that person had the won't. You know how hard those things can be to remove.
same feeling. Awkwardness. Then that person told two But it's even harder to remove a poppy seed from someone's
friends, then they told two friends, then they told two memory. I know that I will be thinking about this for a
friends, and so on, and so on. Then one day, it's in long time. It's a good thing all the people she met today
Webster's. Isn't that something? Now everyone can feel weren't elephants, because you know how elephants are.
awkward together. We have named our fear. Awkward. So, what should I do? This is getting really awkward. If
Now everyone can breathe a sigh of reUef. We can beat only the human race couldjust beat this awkward thing.
this thing. It's all a thing ofthe past now. When someone People don't Uke awkward situations. People will do
bends over to pick up a dictionary thatjust fell, and their whatever it takes to avoid an awkward situation. Funny
underwear is showing, maybe underwear with Uttle thing is, people don't reaUze that awkward isjust a word.
Batman symbols on it, we won't have to feel awkward We can beat this thing. Most people don't reaUze that
when such a situation arises. Awkwardness is dead. awkward situations can, and will, happen to all of us. We
Maybe.
will all see someone with a poppy seed in their teeth,
I encounter an awkward situation. So I'm talking to maybe you are the person with the poppy seed in their
my friend and his girlfriend, she is saying something teeth. It doesn't matter. If awkward situations happen to
about world peace or something, when I notice she has a all of us, we can all understand each other. When it hap-
poppy seed lodged between her teeth. I look at him, pens, who cares? The other guy went through the same
while she is talking; maybe he sees it. It looks Uke he experience, the same feeUng. He knows what it's Uke to be
doesn't. He isn't giving her any kind of'poppy seed in embarrassed. If everyone can finally breathe that sigh of
your teeth' signal. reUef, we won't have to fear this thing any more. It hap-
So, what should I do? I mean, should I say some- pens to everyone. Just let it go. Let it fall from our collec-
thing? IfI did mention the seed, it would be weird and tive memory. Like that dictionary.
embarrassing for her. She would start to think back to all *with the POPPY SEED IN
the people she had seen that day. Were they all focusing HER TEETH.
on that one seed? Would they all think back on her as
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Jamie Davidowicz
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Tea Dance
by Laura Fedele
Drinking in leaves
Steeped in sunlight
Peeking in the spring
Peaking in the fall
Dappled dancers
Dip and sway
Twist away
Colors roam from
Jade to orange to
Crimson tide
Red rushes in to
Splash up yellow
Against light’s edge
Bursting gold to
Join the sun
Alisha
Anderson
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by Wes Bitomski I used to be a lover, have lovers and make love, when you
are making love, having sex, or in a relationship ofthat kind,
Oh, thejoys ofthe world. I remember the impressions left everything is beautiful. Everything makes some sort ofsense.
by the fingers ofpast lovers. The fresh smell of hair and soft Everything works and is perfect. There is nothing to worry
buttermilk skin. The curves oftheir breasts and hips. The
about, nothing to cry over. Everything is simply progressing and
unique ways they found how to cripple me, stripping me of getting better. Everything is stable and stays the same.
emotion and casting me out into the world angry and confused.
Now I'm a fighter, have enemies and make nothing. When
Such greatjoy. you're in constant fights, always getting some part ofyou
The last one moved away and changed her name for some screwed up, you start to see things disintegrate. Like yourbody;
unknown reason. I thought things couldn't get worse, until she nothing's perfect, everything is falling apart.
sent me a letter about a halfyear later telling me that she met In the transition from loverto fighter, you notice changes
this wonderful man where she was and that she wanted to in the world. Colors were in pastels, bright, vibrant and clear.
marry him the following month. Now everything is in shades of grey and blue with a sickly
Keep in mind that I was engaged to her when she moved yellow tint of old florescent lighting. Everything smelled nice
away. and tasted sweet. As a fighter, everything has a coppery metal
Confused and angryI started to fight. Every day since taste and smell, like blood. Everything was perfect and stayed
then, I picked and lost a fight. Everytime I lost, I learned the same. Now everything is in constant decay. Youlovedlife,
something new. Howto get out ofa choke hold, head lock, leg nowyoujust live it.
lock, wrist lock. How to knock a man on his ass, his head, his This shows how relative the world is.
shoulder. Einstein was a genius.
Howto fall. Nothing is true,just experienced from a point ofview.
Howto punch.
In all points ofview. I'm stillbreathing.
How to kick. In all points ofview, everyone else is lying. I get lied to all
Howto kick the ass ofany man twice my size without the time. Salesmen trying to get me to buytheir crap that I
getting hurt. It's very simple. Allyou need to do is watch his don't need. People smiling and nodding friendilywhen they
shoulders. Everytime a man punches, even ifhe knows what want something from me. Everyone scratching, clawing,
he's doing, it shows in his shoulders. When he punches, ifit's mewling, begging, twisting, stabbing, killingjust so that they
high, go low and hit his gut. Ifit's low, back offand tryto kick can feelimportant,just so that they can impress other people.
out one ofhis knees. Fighting is always about the execution, They do allthat so I can simplytellthem in theirbloated,
verylittle to do with strategy, so even ifyou know what to do, hostile little faces that I am not impressed. Their stuffis
you can still get your ass handed to you. Actual fighting, real worthless trash and no one else cares.
fighting, is the best way to practice. You learn about execution When you fight, you can do things like that. You never
quicklythis way, because ifyou don't, you can die. feel guiltytelling people off, because you know that you did
I always learn fast. much worse to someone else the other night.
Through experience, youlearn that getting the wind You stop caring for anything, like I did when I looked for
knocked out ofyou isn't the worst thing that can happen. You thatbitch who moved away.
learn thatyou can still fight with broken limbs. You learn that I had a picture ofher and me hugging and smiling. Worth
pain is mutable. You learn thatyou will only die ifyou want to. a thousand words and not one ofthem good, in my point of
You learn that as long as you are breathing, you can do view. I tore it in half, so my face didn't show. No one needed to
something. knowwho I was in relation to her. Along with the picture, I also
When asked how I am, I never say "Good" anymore, I say had an idea where to look.
"I'm stillbreathing." On the internet, awonderful resource createdby geeks
and overpopulated byidiots, someone posted up pictures ofa
friend's wedding, and there I sawthe bitch smiling back at me
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