Haven Blue and Tom Darin Liskey, from Volume 4:2

Haven Blue is a freelance artist and illustrator usually living somewhere on some western coast. She grew up making things and was often occupied arranging spaces and objects to find different perspectives. Her primary visual focus has been illustrative painting and sculpture, but she engages in various modes and media including movement exhibitions and contemporary tattooing. She has illustrated for children's books and curriculums and her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Boehm Gallery in San Marcos, CA and the Baron Gallery in Ocean Beach, CA.

Blue created the front and back cover art for Volume 4:2. Below is "The Colour White," the piece featured on the front cover:

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Tom Darin Liskey spent nearly a decade working as a journalist in Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Crime Factory, Driftwood Press, Mount Island, The Burnside Writers Collective, Sassafras Literary Magazine, and Biostories, among others. His photographs have been published in Hobo Camp Review, Roadside Fiction, Blue Hour Magazine, Synesthesia Literary Journal, and Midwestern Gothic. He lives in Texas where he tells his children that he has done worse things for less money.

Liskey had a photo essay of Quito, Ecuador run in Volume 4:2, with individual photos appearing on pages 6, 9, 16, 20, 23, 26, 29, 40, 43, 46, and 55. Below is the first photo in the essay, appearing on page 6:

 

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Check out all of Blue and Liskey's work in the new volume of Synesthesia today!