2.7 featuring Omar Gámez and Jayne Joso

About the artists:

Omar Gámez is a photographer from Mexico City. His solo exhibitions include shows at Sinaloa Art Museum and Nacho Lopez Gallery. He has participated in video_dumbo, the Athens Video Art Festival, and New York's NewFest. He was awarded a FONCA grant three times from 2004-2008.

Jayne Joso having lived and worked in Japan and China, now lives in the UK. She has written extensively on Architecture including writing for the UK's Architecture Today magazine, and is also highly regarded for her writing on Japanese arts & culture.

Her first children's book was recently published by Benesse in Japan; and her first play, China's Smile, commissioned in celebration of China's Children s Day, enjoyed a long theatre run and was later televised.

Her first novel, Soothing Music for Stray Cats, was met with brilliant reviews and was a finalist for the People's Book Award. Her next novel, Perfect Architect, will be published in Spring 2011.

Books by (or including work by) Jayne Joso:
Perfect Architect
Soothing Music for Stray Cats

Full text from Jayne and Omar's issue:

And I would share something,
Something beautiful with you.
I gaze at you distantly.
And should I?
Should I approach?
For I would share something,
Something beautiful and true.

Blue skies,
White heat.
If you should wish,
I would follow.
And shall I? Shall I follow?
Naked shadows,
Sand upon my feet.

Tender heart,
And would that you wanted...
And now! Right now!
But too intense...
And will you go?

Shadows shifting,
A forest at play.
No spoken words.
Dust. Heat.
And it is glorious!
And it is beautiful!
'Hush now, gently,' -- so beautiful...
For I have shared all this with you.

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