Jac Valitchka

2 months ago | vsslmag.substack.com | Angie Thompson |Jac Valitchka |Kathryn Dave |Blair Knobel

SPRING IS A SEASON OF MOMENTUM, which is born of passion. It is the force through which creativity thrives and innovation happens. Jared Small, our Memphis-based cover artist, investigates the boundary of memory through his intensely beautiful paintings. He deftly illuminates details of his subjects—architecture, flora, figures—and also obscures them. Small’s work represents the arc of time, that all inevitably withers, like memory itself.