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The Artists of GOOEY

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Pouting In Pink
By Sophia Wasylinko
Original graffiti tagger(s) unknown

When I was studying in Nanaimo, I lived near Colliery Dam Park. Assigned to collect pictures of interesting graffiti for GOOEY's previous issue, I immediately thought of the pieces at Colliery Dam. Armed with my humble yet trusty iPhone, I set out to photograph as much graffiti as I could. Nearly all these pieces come from the bridge just before the waterfall, which in the dark looks like something from a slasher film. While never used in GOOEY’s first issue, a few of these photos have resurfaced in this one for everyone around the world to see.  

Biblically Accurate Dandelion
By Darrian Thompson

Biblically Accurate Dandelion is a horticultural hallucination, where plastic trolls are reborn as petalled prophets. It’s a daisy chain of divine oddities converging around an all-seeing eye that serves as an anchor amid the chaos. This piece marks the cathartic closing chapter of my life in Alberta, and was inspired by a Good Luck Troll I found amid the many boxes that contained the tumultuous remains of my childhood.  

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Art from the Archives

Here at GOOEY, we like art. Unfortunately, we are very poor. Unfortunatelier, art can be very expensive. Thus, we at GOOEY must be at least somewhat resourceful when acquiring art. For the Spring 2023 issue, we cut costs by using stock images for the thumbnails of our stories, interviews, and non-fictions. These were collected through the shifty means of using multiple email addresses to subscribe to multiple free trials at multiple stock art selling websites (and then deleting those accounts after we ran out of free stock downloads). This incredibly cheap method of gathering art (in terms of money, but definitely NOT time), allowed us to use more of our budget to throw at hard-working and talented artists.

 

As you can see, we were able to acquire the gorgeous, and somewhat disturbing piece "UH-OH," created by Kate Apland, which we've used as the face of the inaugural GOOEY issue. With our leftover change, we were able to huck a few loonies (but mostly quarters and nickels) at Evan Shumka for a bunch of doodles he sketched while he was supposed to be learning how to write poetry. I'm almost certain he'll write something about these random scribbles being, in their relation to his poetry class, poetry themselves. Don't buy it folks. He was just procrastinating. And you know what? WE PAID HIM REAL MONEY FOR IT. I personally spent about 25 hours combing through stock photos so that we could afford to pay Evan for his procrastination doodles. The moral of the story? Become an artist. Artists are clearly swimming in cash, stumbling into money for random drawings they make during poetry classes. Anyways, GOOEY loves art and aspiring artists, yada-yada, even if they made it when they should have been paying attention to their professor.

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UH-OH
By Kate Apland 

Making UH-OH was really a cathartic experience. I used its making as a sort of break from day to day life. When school got to be too much, making it was like taking a step back, letting my brain spill for a while, only increasing the weirdness of the whole piece.

Specific Images
By Evan Shumka

"Specific Images" is a collage of doodles from my notebook. They were drawn during poetry classes in the fall of 2021. This makes the doodles poetry by association. 

Specific Images by Evan Shumka

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