ELSEHERE Community

STRATUM Journal of Art, Culture, and the Humanities is now accepting submissions for Issue 003: Commons.

We encourage members of the ELSEHERE Community to apply.

This issue invites essays, criticism, reflections, and other text-based contributions on shared life, collective space, care, belonging, exclusion, and the fragile conditions of the common.

There is no fee to submit.All submissions are reviewed individually, and only selected contributors will be contacted for publication.

Deadline: August 25, 2026

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I LIVE TO PERFORM AND PERFORM TO LIVE, SPREADING THE YOGA LOVE!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Contortion Dance Entertainer, offers advanced yoga feats of flexibility, despite injuries all over her body: torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders, a disintegrated spinal disc and 2 hip replacements! At 71, she presents special theme- and character-based acts that challenge ageism and gender role stereotypes and she flexibly freestyles to any genre of music live or recorded. She is a testimony to the benefits of an organic vegetarian diet, daily exercise and a healthy lifestyle. Please invite her to SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE at your event: amyharlib@gmail.com, https://www.instagram.com/amyharlib/, https://www.reverbnation.com/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

Eruption of Consciousness

Series: Life Is a Festival

Eruption of Consciousness explores the invisible landscape of the human mind through layered gestures, energetic colors, and rhythmic movement. Rather than depicting recognizable forms, the painting invites viewers into a space where memory, emotion, conflict, and celebration coexist.

Hidden forms emerge and disappear according to the viewer's perception, making the work an active dialogue between the painting and the observer. As part of the Life Is a Festival series, it suggests that human existence is an ever-changing celebration of contradictions, where creation, destruction, memory, and hope continuously reshape one another.

Acrylic on Canvas

Artist: Gautam Pal