Flight 3 Now Live!

Editor's Intro

Where Flight 2 reflected the anxieties of the ongoing horrors, Flight 3 turns inward with pieces that focus on art and artistic processes. In Flight 2, we looked at all the submitted work we had received and identified through-lines that could form a cohesive issue. For Flight 3, we started building the issue with Alex Carrigan’s poem, “Ars Poetica: Tulips,” a meditation on how the artistic process suffers in a world with no muses. Once we had Alex’s poem as a foundation for the issue, we knew we needed to add Dominik Slusarczyk’s “An Analysis of Transfiguration,” an analysis of the Raphael painting, Transfiguration that offers both a straightforward description of the painting while simultaneously expanding the essay’s scope out to humanity at large. Next, we added a collaborative piece by Sumitra Singam and Kathryn Reese, “We rename Mondays and rainstorms,” and asked the authors to contribute an interview in which they talked about their collaborative and artistic process. Finally, we ended with our fiction submission for this issue, Paul Luikart’s “Rose Parade,” in which the narrator reflects on a more abstract art: the art of the con.

Thanks for stopping by. Grab a spot at the bar, pair this issue with your drink of choice, and enjoy four pieces that look just as good through the bottom of the bottle. Welcome to Flight 3. We’re glad you’re here.