My Favorite Show

Fiona Daley

Let me set the scene:

like an old-style TV screen,

the colors streak from gray

to brown, to blue, to black,

back again to what you least expect.

The constant buzzing, tweets, and clicks

aren’t interruptions but reverent

elements of the environment,

not chaotic contradictions.

Cool, flat, smooth, and chalky

clutched in my palm

as if I could wrap my lifeline around

a steadiness of crevasses.

Echos ensue from unseen speakers

I strain to hear what they’re saying

but only hear the sound of waves

not sine, only sighing

in and out. Back again.

The only constant element.

To be continued… I will return

to listen to what you’re telling me.

Here, I sit and watch

only once in a great while.

Mesmerized, with smiling eyes

for hours.

If I could, I would binge my life away

on these rocks. So, you’ll ask and I’ll give

a known name but really,

it’s The Shoreline Show at Hebgen Lake.

Chloe Vilevac

Biography: Chloe is a multimedia artist and designer across all things liberal arts. They’re passionate about dabbling and being a forever amateur. She’s endlessly inspired by colorful and subversive pieces of art and writing, particularly portraiture and character studies, which is the center of most of their artwork.

Artist Statement: A series of multilayered and multimedia printmaking pieces with an unconventional medium of silkscreen, made to be studies of larger-scale paintings by my late grandmother. This is not my typical subject, and it’s an experimental medium of layering many transparent layers of water-based medium through screen printing, so I wrote a zine documenting my inspiration and process behind it, along with photography. Seeing the same landscapes through her eyes, but through my own vision and mediums made me learn a lot about myself, my art and my patience–and about her process and artist’s hand.

Fiona Daley

Biography: Fiona’s love for art came from her upbringing in the harsh Montana Rockies. Growing up an avid reader and self-taught artist—words, colors, lines, and melodies gave her a larger world to reside in than that of her small hometown. Her work is rooted in memoir and humanism, exploring her unique life-experiences as well as our shared humanity, by which she hopes to ease the isolation of this day and age.

Artist Statement: My vision of an ideal world is where streaming only refers to rivers and a cast only touches currents. Netflix and chill? No thank you. Nature and clarity? Never gets old.