Ava C. Cipri – Five Photographs


Sleeping by Fabrice Poussin

Enchantment


Storm by Fabrice Poussin

Pairs 


World Afire by Fabrice Poussin

Passage


 

Weary by Fabrice Poussin

Perpetual


 

Weary by Fabrice Poussin

Dream Catchers 


 

Artist’s Statement on Beauty

Regardless if the medium is a poem, a dance, or a photograph, the intention is the same; to capture the beauty of what may otherwise be lost. It’s attempting to distill the essence of something so fleeting and preserve it; to give its voice agency by choosing from a variety of containers. It’s about holding a conversation between artist and viewer, and inhabiting that space, a place of beauty.


 

Ava C. Cipri recently picked up a camera and she can’t put it down. She is a poetry editor for The Deaf Poets Society: An Online Journal of Disability Literature & Art. Ava holds an MFA from Syracuse University, where she served on the staff of Salt Hill. Her poetry and nonfiction appears or is forthcoming in Literary Orphans, Menacing Hedge, Noble / Gas Qtrly, and Room, among others. Ava’s first chapbook Queen of Swords is forthcoming this fall 2017 from Dancing Girl Press. More at: www.avaccipri.com; Twitter at @AvaCCipri.