Issue 348 – December 2017 Cover

Issue 348

When we read, the images that words invoke in our heads reside in in the realm of abstraction. For this Local Literary Issue, artist Christopher Lynn employs his penchant for geometric shapes and a painterly touch of texture to converse in this abstract dimension. Doing so recalls book covers with similar geometric images. Visit christopher-lynn.com for more of his work.

 
 
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