"Letters from the Sun"
Artist Stephanie Flood is a mixed media crafter and Filipino American adoptee living in Hawaii, hailing with an MFA in Creative Writing, her past art and short stories published in a hodgepodge of literary and online journals. Her main website is at http://smflood.weebly.com Attached is a visual art piece that comes directly from a junk journal page that she constructed out of mixed media and penpal letters, then digitally copied. She had edited and digitally enhanced the image to give a historical style similar to how polaroids capture moments in time; this image then touched with a strange flare that gives off a look of sudden exposure to light. Regarding the art mission: her junk journal art has a way of saying all that she still fails to put into words even as an adult. It is the way she heals the brokenness she still feels inside her, after being orphaned when she was born in the Philippines in 1985, and later adopted in 1987 into the U.S. More about her adoption history can be found at: https://desireemaru.weebly.com. She thought this piece would fit Nzuri Journal and the Coastline College community as it relates to identity, transformation, and relatable diasporas akin to the African Diaspora.
