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"Eggflation", 2025
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Angela is a Vietnamese-American artist, illustrator and graphic designer from Portland, Oregon whose creative process acts as a healing practice and a non-linear form of connection, focusing on life’s joys, human emotions, & experiencing the beauty within everyday mundane moments.
Anya Woodbury is a queer artist based in Portland, Oregon. They enjoy playing with color, the complexities of joy and sorrow, and queerness in their art. Find them @solace_illustration on instagram!
Arley Sakai is a vers writer on this continent. He's writing at Crude Materials on Substack.
Aya Doslu (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Portland, OR. They are currently attending tattoo school to become a licensed tattoo artist. View flash and book tattoos with them at @absurdaya on instagram to see more of their art.
Ayled is a photographer, writer, and also lover of parties. They are mainly a portrait photographer, you can find their work on their website or instagram @AyledPhotography. About this photograph, Ayled says, "What I loved about hosting a dinner party, is feeding the hunger for quality time with friends." They also write about their intimate experience of humanness in their newsletter The Inner Monologue of a Teenage 20-Something Girl on Substack.
Brendan Hanna is an artist and designer obsessed with print media, music and skateboarding culture, and design as an art practice.
ceramic sculpture with slip, underglaze, glaze, and luster -- featuring many things that bite.
This excerpt is from a new novel I have written entitled Slay, it's a sapphic vampire paranormal romp. I'm working to self-publish said novel by the end of 2025! @brilliamswrites on Instagram!
Bryce Frimming is an artist currently based in Portland, Oregon. His work is heavily influenced by philosophy and auto racing culture, working in harsh achromatic tones and an aggressive style. His mixed media artwork is an investigation into Auto Racing as Existential Thought, a philosophy to articulate and confront overwhelming despair, the void of uncertainty, internal/external questioning, and his mortality with each passing moment. The result is fragile but emotionally charged artwork that expresses this endless ponder on his existence.
Burton Scheer is a writer and artist from Gainesville, Florida. You can usually find them making lincocut prints for their friends, writing bad poetry, and biting off a little more than they can chew.
I like to write poetry, short stories, and longer works. I'm currently experimenting with video journals too!
Welcome to the freak aetherium IG : @havingjustareallyawesometime
Hi this is Mr. Chris. @chrisskenu on insta!
Chris Koelling is an illustrator currently living and working in Portland, OR. He loves telling stories through playful line work and bright colors. Aside from commercial work, he also loves creating print media, including zines and risograph prints.
I was sitting on the stoop in front of my home, just sort of feeling it and being sad and hoping that someone would text me, the sky was pretty and I was smoking a joint. It was a whole thing. In a moment my phone buzzed, I was dismayed to see that it was just my dentist confirming an appointment I had for a regular cleaning. Some people have lots of those magical moments when they're thinking of someone and hoping they'll text and then they just do! Right then in that moment! Like a dream or a movie. How insane. I don't think that's ever happened to me in my life. It's me and the dentist against the world. And I thought-- At least someone wants to put their fingers in my mouth.
Anyhow, that's when I wrote this poem above the photos. I took the photos themselves on some Kodak Tri-X 400, shot around 1600 ISO and had them push processed to get the very dark and grainy look that I got here. For the photos themselves, I got together with these willing individuals and just asked them to explore what they liked about biting with each other or themselves. So they might gnaw on their hands a bit, bite the other, so on. We'd talk about love and the way we love and bite and why and how it all feels and why oof ouch ow-- It's all just so very much! As well as how we feel when we're not loved and this is what came about from that exploring.
I put the song Tongue - Reprise by Recitals on while we talked, and then Seagirl by King Krule when we got tired of that one. So the work is intended to be viewed while listening to either one of these songs.
Fast food is weird, Its not really food anymore its almost more like an edible brand. You know?
Courtney Askey is an artist, writer and musician based in Leicester, UK. Her practice is currently centred on investigating how labour and the body co-exist within and inform the production of her art.
In 'I ate my heart today' the artist responds to the phrase “to eat one’s heart out”. The image, a still from a video performance, presents the artist in green screened office as she takes out an edible anatomically correct chocolate heart from her shirt and eats it in one sitting. The accompanying poem allows the artist's heart to take on many forms. The heart begins as a friend, becomes a hunk of meat, and morphs into a disintegrating lover. The work is both an ode to the artist's resilience and a critique of vulnerability throughout the artistic process. Dealing with themes of labour, health, sacrifice and consumption, 'I ate my heart today' asks: how much of oneself should one give to the creation process?
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Danny makes music and occasionally writes poetry while residing in New York. In 2011, he founded the multimedia art collective Futro Records in Portland, OR. In 2017, he received a project grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to produce an album and an illustrated book of poetry, titled Hazama, with Tokyo-based artist Yu Suda. Currently, he focuses on making healing, hard music under the other name his mom gave him– Tasa D.
Debasery (Leah) is a very nice writer, artist, and Floridian who recently moved from New York to Oregon. Their most recent poems and visual art can be found on the Pilot Waves podcast, Ethics, exquisites, SCAB, Moral Crema, and forthcoming in Post No Bills. Their first short film Wisdom in the Land of Fort Lauderdale follows a twenty-something year old recovering from his wisdom tooth extraction in his hometown during Spring Break. You can find Leah irl hosting a reading series called Intrusive Thoughts.
Elena Ender is a West Coast writer and editor. She spends her time writing snarky fiction, listening to the latest wave of riot grrrl music, and driving around the streets of Portland, OR. Her debut chapbook “Still Alive, I’m Afraid.” is available now thanks to Bullshit Lit. You can find her online as: @elena_ender.
I feel like with my BITE pieces I let myself loose a bit. I embodied the artists that I love and stopped trapping myself in a little box of what's acceptable. I think art should break boundaries and I think I'm still learning how to let myself do that, to give in to my inner animal and let my teeth close around what's mine. More words/art @elinorserumgard on Instagram and elinorserumgard.com
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I've been writing compulsively since I was a kid, and unfortunately, I don't think I will ever be able to stop! Most of my writing is semi-autobiographical and starts as a way for me to make meaning and sense of my lived experiences. "To Wake Up In Bloom" is a prose-poem based on the years I spent visiting and living in a small rainforest town in Costa Rica. I like my writing like I like my body: embellished and unapologetically flowery. @grinopella
Elvenfoe is a self-taught digital artist and freelance graphic designer. Her work taps into the latent horror of nostalgia, taking inspiration from silent films and vintage posters to evoke a comforting gloom - something you'd experience when reflecting on times gone by.
I like making art that is simple, joyful and amateurish. Always have food somewhere in there .
"Kya States Her Peace" a representation of the eternal feminine aspect- in this case, repressed beyond death, yet still displaying ferocity, power, and a morbid sort of affection.
ethan likes to play minecraft, dj, have alone time, and be in the sunshine when it's not too bright
As an aspiring filmmaker and photographer in Portland, I have a lot of projects I'm working on, and I want to capture the spirit of Portland's local communities and special memories that are quintessentially Portland.
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H Mars’s writing is consumed like a gooseberry, barbs and all. Her brain runs on coffee, calculus, pocket rocks, and analogies. She is currently on loan to Boulder, CO, where she is a MFA candidate and the Anselm Hollo Fellow at Naropa University.
As a photographer, I strive to capture the raw defiance, power, and allure that define the complexities of womanhood. Drawing inspiration from early 2000s culture, my work blends bold flash photography with chic stylization to evoke a sense of both nostalgia and timelessness. My intention is to challenge convention and celebrate individuality by immortalizing moments that are intimate yet untamed—capturing the quiet power in vulnerability and strength.
India Rel-McNeese is a queer, Hispanic illustrator who explores themes of identity, womanhood, and the growing pains of life through gothic fantasy, horror, and surreal imagery. You can find more of their work @indiemme on Instagram!
Jen Bacon, based in Portland, OR, bridges technology and tradition in her photographic practice. Using a scanner as her primary tool, she experiments with cameraless techniques inspired by traditional black-and-white photography. By merging analog influences with contemporary digital imagery, Bacon reimagines photographic art, crafting innovative visuals rooted in timeless processes. socials: @jenrbacon
A Hispanic artist who's art is mostly digital and acrylic based. I tend to do sort of surreal art with colorful or dark tones to embrace a message or a feeling. Art is the most important thing to me. The following pieces represent a BITE of a sad birthday cake and the fear of getting older. BITE of beloved dogs and the emotion of growing older than your pets, which as a child, it's hard to cope with. The Beauty of wanting to take a BITE out of your beloved heart. @AzullVelvet on Instagram!!
This cookbook is meant to help nourish the body after a miscarriage or abortion. When I had my miscarriage I was alone, scared, and a gross meal made it significantly worse. Abortions don't always have to be like that. This can be a helpful resource for a friend who's going through a difficult time. Food is a love language and i <3 abortion
Kate is a lover of books, pistachio lattes, and Instagram stories as a low brow art form. They post semi-frequently on their blog, All My Secrets, and think you should check it out if you like narrative prose and oversharing. https://frznstrwbrries.blogspot.com
"Sink Your Teeth In" focuses on hunger and self-destruction and "love" tied together into a spiky knot.
My writing is about such knots that appear over and over in life; tightening and/or unravelling.
Follow me on Subtack @kellenzr for more.
My upbringing was filled with Catholicism classes ran by the churches in our neighborhood. While I'm not religious today, many themes of religion appear in my poetry. I'm inspired by the idea of rediscovering oneself and what that may or may not mean.
I made this digital collage in Procreate from a combination of my own photos and royalty-free images. As it came together, I was thinking about how hunger, consumption, and urgency can often feel: a little frightening, a little delicious, and cavernously deep. @unrealcitypdx | kimberleefrederick.com
I often see composition as something that the material itself is a cocreator in the process of. These images were found in spilled paint. It’s like finding a composition in the cloud of the paint. I feel this gives the paint an opportunity to speak so I don’t have to dictate the whole idea. @lloyddaylight
Looking for things that feel true long enough to write down.
Bite? Who, me? No no no... I promise I don't bite — I just look like I might. Honestly, I'm feral in aesthetic only; in spirit, I'm hopelessly domesticated. To find out what the h*ck that means, follow me on Instagram (@ichaotiqa) #shamelessplug
There's no way the tooth fairy is person-shaped. Follow me on ig @maddkroillo
I've been making Bag Charms recently, and went with the theme of fruit! I actually used a scanner to take photos of them, which created a cool point of view where the beads pressed up against the scanner are more vivid and clear, while those with more complex shapes take on dimension and show movement/blur.
For my Poem, I recently received a typewriter, and while exploring it as a medium and as a practice, copied a poem I wrote 3 times. The repetition of the poem at different speeds, different line breaks, and with different colors gives new meaning to each copy and cements the idea of the poem--a coarse and painful kneading (like in baking) of one's insides into change, into something new.
1”x1” Whittled with basswood and acrylic paint! :-) @mabeleine_ on instagram
makayla terrell is a Black & Filipina poet integrating language between the metaphysical & the natural world. Her poetry hopes for a ritualistic experience within these realms, creating a ceremonial space for the ancestral, the revelations, and the omens. makayla is a Louisiana native currently residing in Portland, OR and is obtaining her MFA through the Low Residency Creative Writing Program at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Mallary Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator who engages in digital and traditional mediums including graphic design, bookbinding, environmental installations, painting, and experimental digital explorations. Her visual work uses traditional mediums to explore artificial machine learning as a reflection of culture and humanity. Her research examines cyberspaces, identity, and technology’s influence on modern society. She enjoys sharing cultural analysis through interactive lectures for her students and in public speaking events.
The Portland, Oregon-based artist received her undergraduate degree in Communication Designs at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) where she received the Givler Thesis Award Class, the Bridgetown Scholarship Award, the Communication Design Merit Scholarship Award, and The Steve O'Hare '73 Scholarship. In 2024, she was awarded the Women of Willamette University award for leadership and community engagement and was also awarded the Fall 2024 Graduate Curatorial Fellowship. She currently teaches graphic design at Portland State University while simultaneously pursuing dual master's degrees at PNCA—Master of Arts in Critical Studies and Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Home on the Range is the intersection of biting heartbreak and ekphrastic writing. "Persimmon One" and "Persimmon Four" are from the series "Five Persimmons." They're made of recycled "cat-skin" gloves from the artist's grandpa, polymer clay, aluminum foil, salt-cured persimmon calyxes, beeswax, mod podge, and liquitex matte-gel.
Mikayla Coleman (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer local to Eugene, Oregon. Her recent work focuses on perceiving and interacting with the world through a neurodivergent, feminine lens, often including visual or interactive elements. She is fascinated by all things analog, tactile, and mixed-medium, with a focus on film photography and fiber arts. Mikayla received a BA in English and Art & Design from Western Oregon University and a MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from University of Washington Bothell. When she is not writing, you can find her scouring aisles for second-hand materials at thrift stores, working as a barista at a local café, and fawning over her beloved cat, Fern.
Porcelian and Glaze
Netra is a design student whose work blends surrealism with satire, using humor as a lens to explore the absurdity of everyday life. Netra's art sits in the strange in-between—where the familiar becomes uncanny and the ridiculous shows something unexpectedly true. Surrealism is both her aesthetic and a way to process the unspoken, while satire lets her connect with others through laughter and shared discomfort. She aims to create work that’s funny, mysterious, and just weird enough to make you look twice. @iterumtenta on insta
Nikki “Nik” Burian is a queer, non-binary slam poet currently living in Portland, OR. They are a recipient of the 2011 Iowa Poetry in Public award and have been featured in Woke Monozine, Prickly Pear Printing’s 2019 volume of We Grow Anyway, and on SlamFind. Nik proudly represented Portland in both the 2018 National Poetry Slam and the 2018 Individual World Poetry Slam. They are the author of three relatively okay books that are no longer available but definitely at one point existed: Letters in My Nightstand (2019), Kindergarten Memory Spiral (2018), and I Hope My Cat Doesn't Have Self-Esteem Issues (2016). They believe the performance of spoken word is as essential as the words being spoken and that the audience is as essential as the performer. They don’t believe in using writing formulas to win, or jerks, or the Chicago Bears.
These pieces of work were inspired by the natural forms that give us the ability to ingest/digest, or more specifically- bite. The scale made from copper, walnut and horse tooth is designed to hold salt and pepper, balancing the two spices on a form that is no longer used for its intended purpose of consumption. The headpiece contains a fox jaw, pressed against the wearers cheek calling attention to the active and inactive mandibles. This coffin-like piece is also designed to remind us of our impermanence. Bite while you still can!
PEDRAAM FARIDJOO is an artist living in Brooklyn near a highway. He is interested in walking into the fog and disappearing forever. Find him on Instagram @2cbdealer
Now is a time, more than ever before, that I believe art and humanity should be uplifted. When creating my work, my goal is to tell stories of humanity that a viewer can find a connection with. The soul of human creativity alone is something so incredibly special and unreplaceable to me but allowing an audience to experience stories while viewing my work is equally as important. I know, as a trans person, that our experiences aren’t broadly represented in media, and I work to combat that for us and for other groups who are forgotten in representation. Our stories are worth sharing, are deserving of nuance, and will never be eradicated from history. It is my ambition to dedicate meaningful stories that speak to underrepresented peoples, and I can only hope that, through exposure, the world at large can understand our shared humanity better in the future. Art is what connects human beings from the dawn of our creation, to the modern day, and beyond; never stop creating.
ms paint by quinn orr and ways to not get bit by a monkey by eli staats eli and quinn love each other like no one's ever loved before. they love birding and making messy art and cuddling
The creative gods hunger, they beckon, demanding offerings. To deny your creative urges is to deny them satiation. that won't go unpunished.
River Starnes makes pancakes.
Working with collage and text. I’m a fan of intaglio and idioms. I made two word scrambles inspired by the NYT game Strands.
I love to write poetry and short stories! Hope you enjoy <3
Sam is an illustrator and designer by day, and a cat dad, and potato salad connoisseur by night. Drawing birds is their happy place.
Sarah Rae Franklin is a Portland-based, award-winning, multidisciplinary artist focusing her practice on animation, illustration, and creative writing. She was born and raised in the rural Puget Sound area before moving to Portland to pursue a degree in animation at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Franklin had her first solo show at the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) in 2018 and has been featured in several other shows throughout the Pacific Northwest, including a recent show with Portland’5 Culture & Community. Her animated work has been screened at multiple film festivals in and out of the United States, most notably by Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow and Portland Panorama.
I’m very excited to submit something to Lurch for the first time! I love making art but don’t do it often, collages are the art form I enjoy doing the most & I’ve found myself making many recently. The theme bite for Lurch this month really excited me, so I made a sexy vampire themed collage, mwah <3
don't forget to brush
A bite can include sights, sounds, smells, and seasons.
Taber (they/she) is an illustrator and animator based in San Francisco, CA. Check out their zine PAGE MUNCH!
get bit
<- work by nathan galvan + jeremy jones ->
I like bites
In chess, every move is a carefully laid trap, waiting for an opponent to bite. A dance of decisive moments, deception, and downfall. Who will take the bait?
Violet Holah is a 20-year-old creative from Portland, Oregon, currently studying at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Outside of photography, she is the founder of BYVIOLETGRAY, where she designs and handcrafts unisex, sterling silver jewelry.
A collaboration between the artwork by Zed and words of Elias Gale
I like to create things that come from that secret place beyond words. I like to crawl around on the floor with my hands covered in paint. I like music that's so beautiful it makes me cry. I like the soft pink stillness of the sky before it snows. I like the feeling of discovering a mushroom in the forest, like discovering a portal to another world.
I took these photos on a toy camera, holding it in one hand and snap snap snapping pics as I skied down dark, snowy passages. It was incredible, these little moments of light and then quiet, perfect darkness where I couldn't see a thing but trusted my body to stay upright as I continued to slide through the snowy kingdom.