Nadia Arioli
Artist Statement
At the beginning of the pandemic, I started a junk journal to cope. Language did not seem to be working. Two years later, it was still the pandemic, but I found myself pregnant. Language, again, started to warp and fall short. When we run up against the limits of language, we might imagine something precise sputtering out like a computer spitting out zeros and ones. But I wanted to take it in another direction—namely, mess. I like the idea of slap-dash. I like the idea of cobbled together. A junk journal seemed like the apt medium for these ideas: things we find to make meaning, things we repurpose out of necessity. All of my work from that project followed the rule of no new materials. I photocopied doodles I already made. I used old calendars and trash I found in my garage. I used fragments and scraps and refuse to make something that will hold.
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Nadia Arioli
Nadia Arioli is the co-founder and editor in chief of Thimble Literary Magazine and a multi-disciplinary artist. Arioli’s poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net three times and can be found in Cider Press Review, Rust + Moth, San Pedro Review, McNeese Review, Whale Road Review, West Trestle Review, As It Ought To Be, Voicemail Poems, Bombay Literary Magazine, and other publications. Essays have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart and can be found in Hunger Mountain, Heavy Feather Review, Angel Rust, and elsewhere. Collages and scribblings have been featured as the cover of Permafrost, as artist of the month for Kissing Dynamite, and in Poetry Northwest. Arioli has chapbooks with Dancing Girl and Spartan and full-lengths with Luchador Press and Kelsay Books (forthcoming).
Website: thimblelitmag.com
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