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SHJ Issue 15
Fall 2016

“Quanta Smears”

by Robert Bharda


These five digital images were orchestrated from 11x14-inch templates comprised of natural/organic elements: flowers, leaves, berries, cones, seashells, stones, mushrooms, grasses, and leaf “tar spots” and “rust,”
inter alia.

 

Mixed-Media Digital Image, Sower and Seed (Homage, Van Gogh), by Robert Bharda

Sower and Seed (Homage, Van Gogh)

Copyright © by Robert Bharda. All rights reserved.

 

Mixed-Media Digital Image, The Kiss, by Robert Bharda

The Kiss

Copyright © by Robert Bharda. All rights reserved.

 

Mixed-Media Digital Image, Making Par Fleche, by Robert Bharda

Making Par Fleche

Copyright © by Robert Bharda. All rights reserved.

 

Mixed-Media Digital Image, Nudes by a Lakeshore (Homage, Matisse), by Robert Bharda

Nudes by a Lakeshore (Homage, Matisse)

Copyright © by Robert Bharda. All rights reserved.

 

Mixed-Media Digital Image, People in a Park (Homage, Cezanne), by Robert Bharda

People in a Park (Homage, Cezanne)

Copyright © by Robert Bharda. All rights reserved.

 

Links to other digital images by Robert Bharda:

Habitat, Alleycat, and Ratta-Pit-Tooie in Cahoodaloodaling (Issue 14, October 2014); also includes the templates which were used to create the trio of digital images

The Penalver Gallery “Untitled Exhibit 2015” in aaduna (Summer/Fall 2015); exhibit includes 15 digital images

Photographs on Facebook

SHJ Issue 15
Fall 2016

Robert Bharda

is a writer and artist originally from New York City who now resides in the Pacific Northwest, where for the past 35 years he has specialized in vintage photographica as a profession, everything from salt prints to polaroids. His illustrations and artwork have appeared in numerous publications, both in the U.S. and abroad, including on covers of Naugatuck River Review, Blue Five NoteBook, Conclave 8, Cirque, and Rio Grande Review. His portfolios of images have been featured in Cahoodahoodaling, Blue Five, The Adirondack Review, aaduna, Superstition [review], and Blue Fifth Review.

Bharda’s poetry, fiction, and critical reviews have been published in The North American Review, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, ACM, Cutbank, Fine Madness, Kansas Quarterly, Yellow Silk, Poets On, and many others, including anthologies.

“...we have been born here to witness and celebrate. We wonder at our purpose for living. Our purpose
is to perceive the fantastic. Why have a universe if there is no audience?” — Ray Bradbury