Issue Illustrator | Leslie Lindsay
Each issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly features an Issue Illustrator, an artist whose work was chosen to pair with and complement the poetry of the quarter. Issue #73's artist is Leslie Lindsay.
Leslie Lindsay’s work has been published in various literary and art journals, including: Up the Staircase Quarterly (cover art), Another Chicago Magazine (ACM), Wild Roof Journal, Spring-Summer, Brushfire Arts & Literature, The Closed Eye Open, Tiferet Journal, Mud Season Review, Western Michigan Review, Fall 2023, and On the Seawall, Model Home: A Study Under Compression, a photo essay in miniature, April 2023.
Artist Statement: As a nature and architectural photographer, Leslie’s work focuses on the interconnectedness of dwellings, mineral elements and organic growth. These structures, designed to be huge forces of permanence, are continually being challenged, destroyed, and forgotten. Among the clutter—the shards of wood, layers of rubble, chipping coats of paint—there remains a gentle resolve. These places, often on the brink of ruin, possess an energized present–and presence–as they attempt to escape their fragmented reality; it is a story which tells us who we are.
Leslie Lindsay’s work has been published in various literary and art journals, including: Up the Staircase Quarterly (cover art), Another Chicago Magazine (ACM), Wild Roof Journal, Spring-Summer, Brushfire Arts & Literature, The Closed Eye Open, Tiferet Journal, Mud Season Review, Western Michigan Review, Fall 2023, and On the Seawall, Model Home: A Study Under Compression, a photo essay in miniature, April 2023.
Artist Statement: As a nature and architectural photographer, Leslie’s work focuses on the interconnectedness of dwellings, mineral elements and organic growth. These structures, designed to be huge forces of permanence, are continually being challenged, destroyed, and forgotten. Among the clutter—the shards of wood, layers of rubble, chipping coats of paint—there remains a gentle resolve. These places, often on the brink of ruin, possess an energized present–and presence–as they attempt to escape their fragmented reality; it is a story which tells us who we are.
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You can find Leslie Lindsay's art on the following pages of UtSQ:
David Eileen | Proofs Cherry Cheesman | Things I Forget to Leave in My Purse Darren C. Demaree | Emily as Hands and Eyes and Emily as Vanity and Commerce Weston Leo Richey | Cloud Number 9 Anthony Frame | P̶o̶e̶m̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶W̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶D̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶a̶n̶d̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶V̶i̶s̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶M̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶D̶r̶e̶a̶m̶ All My Heroes Turned Out to Be Creeps Mrityunjay Mohan | Birds Blue Birds Mervyn Seivwright | An Echoing Deduction Dean Bartoli Smith| Encounters Eliza Fixler | For better, for worse |
