More than meets the eye: Modern art
By Kelsey Barnes, Assistant Editor of Saxifrage
Modern art is alive at Pacific Lutheran University. One artist keeping it alive is junior Katie DePreker.
Modern art is commonly defined as a genre...
THE MATRIX: Submissions now open for spring issue
Social justice creatives in the Pacific Lutheran University community, let it be known: submissions for the Spring 2015 edition of the social justice magazine, The Matrix, are now being accepted.
Entries can be...
THE MATRIX: The PLU community is strong
This Matrix article is written in response to the Feminist Student Union's "Carry That Weight" event, which Samantha Lund wrote about in the Mar. 13 issue of The Mast.
LEAH LARSON
Publishing &...
From Saxifrage: Lean In
By Grace Garvey-Hall, Saxifrage 38 Contributor
Lean in closer,
I’ll tell you.
Passion is pen and
Paper and words
Filling
Filling
Filling the page
Hot water washing away
Mud and revealing inspiration
Sore muscles
Heavy with accomplishment
My heart swinging
From sorrow to...
STOP & LISTEN: A figurative and literal perspective
By Enoch James, Matrix Contributor
Stop, and listen. Stop when, and where? And listen to what?
It doesn't mean that whenever you’re approached by a person you stop whatever you’re doing,...
From Saxifrage: Noir Sepia
By Joseph Fries, Saxifrage 34 Contributor
I sometimes feel
like an old silent moving picture,
words flashing on the screen and
occasionally faint splotches of color
painted onto film, flaking away
and, leaving it all...
From The Matrix: ‘Iron Knees’
By Amanda Seely, Saxifrage Contributor
How sad to veil a pretty face in cloth;
How pathetic to kneel and submit to invisible almighty and despotic man.
Commodified solidarity and morsels of culture...
Stop and Listen: no, really….
Part I
By Laura Johnson, Co-Editor of The Matrix
What do stop signs and Pacific Lutheran University’s social justice journal, The Matrix, have in common this semester? For both, you are...
From Saxifrage: salt and sugar
By Kara Larson
Saxifrage Contributor
Perfection must be distinct for everyone or America
would be cheerleaders and lawyers
and Gap babies.
How about three groovy chicks with freshly shaven pale legs
in a red car...