Amore Door

Ryan Bender-Murphy

Ryan Bender-Murphy received an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. His fiction has appeared in The Black Fork Review, BRUISER, Dumbo Press, Maudlin House, and Red Rock Review, among other publications. He is also the author of the poetry chapbook First Man on Mars (Phantom Books, 2013). Find him on Instagram at ryan.bender.murphy.

Antonio Muñiz

Antonio Muñiz is an artist in pursuit of metaphysical truth. Born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico, the self-taught painter seeks a mystical awakening through his artistic process. Integral to Muñiz’s practice is the technique of Fumage, the intuitive application of smoke to canvas. He begins each painting with this autonomic process, unconsciously manipulating the smoke to establish a compositional structure for the work. Harnessing his unconscious, Muñiz relies on sheer physicality to create his work. He sees the canvas as a space for transformation, a place to confront the obstacles of fixed ideas and explore the raw power of chance.