When Running Out of ______

It’s the 26th of June. That means you have five days left to submit to LEFT.

I’m going to try my best to respond to all submissions by August 1st.

1 - DARK TOWEL BY JAYINEE BASU

2 - SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE THE LIGHT INSIDE OF OTHERS IS 30,000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY BY ASHLEY OPHEIM

3 - SEEMS LIKELY… BY STEPHEN MICHAEL MCDOWELL

4 - DAILY PRAYERS BY ROD NAQUIN

5 - PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE CONFUSED UNTIL YOU TELL THEM WHAT IS HAPPENING BY KATE GERVAIS

6 - A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIGHT BY DAVE WRIGHT

My mother works so hard And for bread she needs some lard. She bakes the bread. And makes the bed. And when she’s threw She feels she’s dayd.

This morning the Reader posted a story about Paul-David Young, a curator whose new show, “To Perform, To Conceal,” comprises 30 photographs culled from a cache of about 100 that was discovered in a dumpster in Humboldt Park last summer. Young knew what the photographer looked like, since the collection contained many self-portraits, and he guessed, based on the clothing, the background, and the contents of the collection, that she’d probably very recently been an art student in New York. Beyond that, he knew nothing.

But it’s hard for an anonymous photographer to remain anonymous, especially on the Internet. Especially if she’s an artist whose medium is the Internet. Within about an hour, Animal New York published its own story revealing the photographer’s identity. She is Molly Soda, a 24-year-old digital artist, a star of YouTube and Tumblr, and one of the first digital artists to sell her work at auction.