Fall 2023: Rot
![a deformed body of a woman lying in a sky of blue](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/SofiaY-Cover-1-1024x813.jpeg)
![painting of blue sky with gray clouds and a dark forest](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Erxi-Lu-1-for-Zoe-Alarcon-1024x845.jpg)
![two bottles next to each other on yellow and orange painted background](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Sofia-Yadigaroglu-for-Willow-Delp-727x1024.jpg)
![a blue bird against green ripples](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Rachel-De-La-Cruz-for-Venumi-Gamage-749x1024.jpg)
![paperprint of a red woman looking at her reflection on a black background](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Cece-Amory-_Haunt_-for-Sydney-Williams-1024x768.jpg)
![a sketch of a girl's body and innards](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Jacinta-Smith-_Morgue-for-girl-on-table_-641x1024.jpeg)
![a blue-red image of a girl with short hair looking at the viewer](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Erica-Li-for-Sonia-Chajet-Wides-768x1024.jpg)
![a tree inside a circle with anchors hanging down](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Caroline-Wu-for-Sofia-Ahmed-2023.jpg)
![splotches of yellow blue white colors in a torrent](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Erxi-Lu-2-for-Siani-Ammons-960x1024.jpg)
![a picture of a black and white mushroom](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Cece-Amory-for-Rania-Adouim-1-724x1024.png)
![black and white sketch of bodies falling among a falling star](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Jacinta-Smith-_Falling-Star_-for-Priscilla-Lee-814x1024.jpeg)
![black and white image of what appears to be a forest, but eerie](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Alma-for-Mike-Rosenthal-1024x763.jpg)
![a white masked person among white growing mushrooms and pink](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/DShea-for-Mikayah-Parsons-782x1024.jpg)
![a painting of red and dark blue and blue](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Isabella-Fuster-for-Mel-Arthur-1024x768.png)
![a drawing of a girl sitting on a curved road. inside of the curve, there are objects inside](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Tiia-for-Madi-Suh-1024x846.jpg)
![art of a girl looking into the mirror against blue backdrop](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Amy-Zheng-for-Mackenzie-Dunson-768x1024.jpg)
![drawing on two corners, one of a finger and the other of an eye](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Cece-Amory-for-Merrick-Lawson-1-724x1024.png)
![image of a body depicting pink organs laid out on red markings](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Cece-Amory-2-for-Lila-Schlissel-1024x757.jpg)
![image of red liquid falling past five hands reaching against a blue background](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/DShea-for-Kaela-Liu-768x1024.jpg)
![image of two sisters hugging each other. one is in pink, the other in white](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Amy-Zheng-for-Gracie-Rowland-853x1024.jpg)
![a painting of shoes against cracking ice and blue splotches](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/EvelynforGrace.jpeg)
![pen sketch of a face screaming](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Jacinta-Smith-_Rot-Me-Free_-for-Gabby-Avena-1024x977.jpeg)
![digital art of a cat looking with yellow eyes](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/KylaBiscocho_FahimZaman-1024x711.jpg)
![image of leaves forming leaf people](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Alma-For-Emily-Wyckoff-1024x709.jpg)
![blue painting with yellow, red, and blue splotches](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Erxi-Lu-4-for-Eliza-Becker-787x1024.jpg)
![image of a bed inside of a house](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Cece-Amory-for-Edwyn-Choi.jpg)
![an image of a girl inside a blueish, wrinkled circle](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Cece-Amory-3-for-Clara-Chiu-1024x768.jpg)
![a photo of a knitted piece of art. the knitted piece of art depicts two hands](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/MLawson-for-Bea-Agbi.jpeg)
![digital art of falling cowry shells among red circles](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Cece-Amory-for-Awa-Diop-1-724x1024.png)
![painting of glasses among two blurry objects](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Erxi-Lu-3-for-Alex-Womack-939x1024.jpg)
![image of yellow sand with blue skies and yellow sun](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/SamuelNklengaforAlexWomack-1024x1024.png)
![drawing of an hourglass against two golden spheres in red shading](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/SamuelNklengaforAlexWomack1-1024x711.png)
![image of stones on the ground in a painted blue background](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/11/Isabella-Fuster-for-Aidan-Cooper-768x1024.png)
Spring 2023: Reverence
![a drawing of a person peeking out through a ripped hole](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/LeoniWright3_MaxPasakornWriter1024_1.jpg)
![colored sketch of frog](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/CarolineWu4_CaelenMcQuilkinWriter1024_1.jpg)
![sketch of a frog in the three stages of maturing](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/CarolineWu3_CaelenMcQuilkinWriter1024_1.jpg)
![an edited photo of a man reaching out to a digitally corrupted image of a woman](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/CarolineWu5_GabrielaWeaverWriter-1024x680.jpg)
![a digital art piece made out of geometric shapes that create a girl staring out the expanse of planets and space](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/CarolineWu2_SoniaChajetWidesWriter.jpg)
![a screenshot of a code for a picture](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/CarolineWu1_SoniaChajetWidesWriter-1024x804.png)
![a watercolor piece of a hand reaching outward framed against leaves](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/Anna-Hogarth_JackelineFernandesWriter-763x1024.jpg)
![a picture of cellular organisms with neon purple outlined circles](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/AnaVaronaOrtiz_MelArthurWriter-701x1024.png)
![a drawing of a boy and a girl walking down a path with trees surrounding them](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/AmyZheng_KaelaLiuWriter1024_1.jpg)
![a drawing of a black girl on the background of small, skinny trees in front of her](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/Tiia-McKinney_ZoeAlarconWriter-645x1024.jpg)
![an artwork with a black-and-white nun against a blue surface with white beads trailing off her](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/SofiaYadigaroglu_SarahWuWriter-829x1024.jpg)
![a collage of pieces within colored circles that radiate outwards](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/ShaynaKlainberg_AidanCooperWriter-1024x704.jpg)
![a painting of a girl surrounded by a colorful whirlwind of thoughts and pressures](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/SamuelNkengla_PhoVuWriter-1024x850.jpg)
![a painting of the ocean framed against a brilliant sunset](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/RamaBalagurunath_KarenLeeWriter-1020x1024.jpg)
![a painting of an old chinese man with a bloody scar on the middle of his face](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/RachelLin_FahimZamanWriter-837x1024.png)
![a painting of an opened eye with a half crescent in the middle, surrounded by lovely pinks, oranges, and yellows](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/NeviahWaldron2_LawsonWriter-1024x794.jpg)
![a painting of a forest displayed against a purple sky, with the moon centered in the middle](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/NeviahWaldron_GabbyAvenaWriter-1024x764.jpg)
![a piece of artwork of a girl with patterned shapes around her](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/MeganHuang2_Cover-760x1024.jpg)
![a digital art piece of a giant statue half-submerged in water, surrounded by farmers](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/LeoniWright2_WillowDelpWriter-1024x715.png)
![a digital art piece of a vogue cover with a laughing, bloody person in front](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/LeoniWright1_MackenzieDunsonWriter-715x1024.png)
![a digital art piece of a girl kneeling before someone](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/KylaBiscocho_GracieRowlandWriter-1024x711.jpg)
![a photograph of a fox](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/JessicaKirby_NicoleItkinWriter-1024x768.jpg)
![a painting of someone smiling with jewelry-encrusted teeth](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/JacintaSmith_AwaDiopWriter-1024x1024.jpg)
![an origami piece of a green dragon from a low angle](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/FranAbdo3_AnnikaBajajWriter-768x1024.jpg)
![an origami piece of a green dragon looking out of a window](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/FranAbdo2_AnnikaBajajWriter-768x1024.jpg)
![an origami piece of a yellow phoenix in flight](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/FranAbdo1_CarolynThomasWriter-e1681841214245-771x1024.jpg)
![a photograph of a sunrise against a beach](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/EvelynChi_GraceEscoeWriter-768x1024.jpg)
![brushstrokes of yellow, blue, white, and red](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2023/04/ErxiLu_PaulineBissellWriter-1024x1018.jpg)
Fall 2022: Bridge
![cropped image of a machine](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/12/MadelineLawsonArt_ZoeStrothkamp-e1670896433406.jpg)
![A plate of food on a table.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/12/EvelynChiArt_EvelynChi.jpeg)
To be loved / Is to wake up to a bowl of steaming hot 稀飯 / Tender, bright orange 地瓜 floating / In a sea of glistening 白飯, / To have the tablemat set out already
![Pencil drawing of a hand holding a cigarette box.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/12/AnnaWetzelArt_EvelynChi.jpg)
![Two gray figures. Both seem androgynous. The figure on the right is sovereign and has a cloak and crown.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/AidanCooperArt_SofiaYadigaroglu.png)
Her Prayer like a touch and boiling / Shiver turning the dust-clouds into rain. // He stands before a lectern named Wash / Where he uncoils ribbons from the holes / He cut through his fingertips the callouses
![Digital art of a koi fish against a colorful background.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/WillowDelphArt_CeceAmory-removebg-preview.png)
The water was brown. / The Brabantio family had adamantly tried to ignore this fact – even the more progressive members politely refused to comment.
![Print and paper. Two figures staring at each other against a backdrop of a bridge](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/Tiia_-Art-for-Mikayah_-e1669184585556.jpg)
She hugs her arms to her chest, wearing a white baby tee and velvet black lounge pants, dangling her legs over the edge of the bridge when I join her.
![Black and white digital art piece. A girl is running across the bridge while the boy sits underneath.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/TaptiSenArt_AlmaClark.png)
Please come sit next to me- / I want to lay my head in your lap and / whisper about the boy you love / as you braid flowers in my hair. Once, / I knew you like I knew myself, and / now, I wonder if history is all we / have left
![A bright digital artpiece of the back of a ferry. Water streams out from behind the boat](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/SoniaChajetWidesArt_KylaBiscocho.jpg)
When I was eleven, I started taking the subway alone; I learned what it meant to pick myself up and walk myself down as the train roared rickety […] I was a traveler in my own city
![A sketch depicting a collision of nursery-related objects. Black and white except the orange center.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/SofiaTennentArt_AmyZheng.jpg)
[They…] are larger than when she last spent time observing them. A headache threatens her temples as she questions yet again what might make this home look right for a family
![A black swirl with a mysterious yellow light coming from the center. Streaks of red are lining the black.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/SarahWuArt_NathanLeepdf-removebg-preview.png)
On the same bridge where my brother threatened to cast his body into the river, you tell me: “Wouldn’t it be fun to jump?” We sit together on the railing. Your eyes are the same color as the sky
![](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/RachelHendricksenArt_HaoranTong_Page_2.jpg)
![](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/RachelHendricksenArt_HaoranTong_Page_1.jpg)
![A collage of different items, including eyes, plants, and a macaroni bridge.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/PriscillaLeeArt_EliseFarley.jpg)
An old man with his fanny pack radio strolls by […] One of the girls sweats past him and wonders if swinging her arms like that would propel her forward in this deathly test of fitness
![A painting with dappled colors against blue.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/PaulineBisselArt_IsabellaFusterCrichfield.jpg)
That was the week the grapes were swelling and bruising / Purple, dust-seasoned. Again / We filled our pockets until the grapes, sun-burnt / And sun-ripened, burst
![A skill and a hand against a brightly colored background of yellow stars against blue sky.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/MelArthurArt_SofiaYadigaroglu.png)
what do you feel in the silence / what do you feel in the warmth / what do you feel in the center of your being / whatdoyoufeel between / silence what–wheredoyoufeel / the warmth lies
![A sketch of an intricate machine, dull colors](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/MadelineLawsonArt_ZoeStrothkamp.jpg)
There was a sale at Ace Hardware today: forty percent off washers, so Ophelia walked home with tiny metal discs pinging around in his coat pocket
![Digital art. A city atop a hole in the blue ground. Colors are speckled around the image](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/LelandCulverArt_CeceAmory.jpg)
The fishing hole was bigger than it should be […] careful examination of the clean cut into three inch-thick featureless ice would reveal that the hole was not merely bigger than regulation
![An image with a wired green ball above a green watery surface](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/EstebanSanchez_NathanLee.jpg)
I walk with you through a field of wild grass on a path laid out for us by others. Dandelion seeds float slowly, discernible against the blue sky, like white snowflakes that fall in other parts of the world
![A black and white photo of a girl with the shadow of a city line in the background](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/EmilyWycoffArt_MiaSanchez.png)
A blonde woman stands on the Brooklyn Bridge, waiting. Lifting her hand, she brushes a strand of perfectly curled hair into her scarf. She waits patiently, eyes staring off into the distance
![Watercolor image of a woman with a red thread sticking through a bird](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/EleanorWalshArt_ZoeStrothkamp_edited.jpg)
Once upon a time in a land far, far away there lived three sisters. The oldest sister had long, dark hair and knuckles that hissed when they were cracked
![A black and white photo of a planetarium](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/DavisRennellaArt_KylaBiscocho.jpg)
For this solitary space traveler, what had started as a bold expedition to new horizons for his people had become a disorienting journey through a galaxy
![](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/CarolynThomasArt_HaoranTong_Page_2.jpg)
![](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/CarolynThomasArt_HaoranTong_Page_1.jpg)
![Watercolor painting with yellow flowers in a field of green](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/CaelenMcQuilkinart_EttaGold-e1669185872198.jpg)
[…] the desert hues that usually fade into the background fill the entire landscape, and I wonder, what happens when the whole world around you becomes the colors that usually uplift other things
![A image of a tree with a golden glow in the background. There is a golden palace in the background](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/BryanJimenezFloresArt_PiperMohring.jpg)
The entire town mocked him and some threatened him with pesticide when he approached, but no one had the heart to tell him that his father was not a wildflower human
![A drawing of a girl staring out a window into the night, purple sky](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/BlumaHammarheadArt_AmyZheng.jpg)
Here is– the monument, / The bare room heavy with artifacts: / Strange velvet balls, stacks / Of letters, papers, / Old journals full of hypotheticals
![A black and white drawing of a girl's hair being combed and braided.](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/AwaDiopArt_StevenHuang.jpg)
Adja parts the last section of hair with the rattail comb to hook in another box braid. She’s working on the last two braids of Michelle’s hair, a first-time customer
![A watercolor painting of a few different colored potions](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/11/AnnikaBajajArt_EvelynChi.jpg)
We met that night on a drawbridge, in the rain: you with golden hair plastered to your face, tangling up in long eyelashes your mother likes to call ‘ladylike’ and you tend to label as ‘inconvenient.’
Spring 2022: Break
![drawing of a person kneeling in a briefcase](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/issac.png)
![sketch of a black blur on paper](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/tree.png)
![drawing of a boy looking at his IPhone and his letter](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/IMG_5351.jpg)
![outline of two people: a "dripping" woman and a pointing man](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/Ari_Melting.jpg)
![drawing of a person falling into an ocean, with a picture of Earth tangled in lines](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/Zoe_Falling1024_1.jpg)
![drawing of two people jumping into the water](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/sofia_indicator.jpg)
![a black heart splotch](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/Mikayah-Aoife.jpg)
![image of a purple eagle](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/Leland-art.jpg)
![photo of a tree without leaves](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/KeiLim_The-Persimmon-Tree.jpg)
![drawing of a person whispering in someone else's ear](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/indicator_priscilla.jpg)
![drawing of a bridge in black-and-white](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/indicator_gabby.jpg)
![black and white image of a person](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/CalvinWoodcutForSamsPoem.png)
![drawing of a drawing torn to pieces](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/Caelen-indicator.jpg)
![image of a person holding their shoulder with blue and red](https://theindicator.amherst.edu/files/2022/06/ACora-art.jpg)